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Favors US resolution on Balkans without charging Yugoslav, Albanian and Bulgarian aggression, s, UN Gen Assembly com; defends US policy in Greece
Rev S Cek, Msgr J Ukmar and others sentenced for alleged part in Istrian riot
Bklyn wins 4th game on teams only hit by H Lavagetto in 9th inning; 10 walks allowed by F Bevens set record
ct orders Santo to testify; Sacher plans appeal; Immigration inspector Phelan sets hearing resumption date
1947Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist[†]
Paul-Alain Auguste Leclerc, better known by his stage name Julien Clerc, is a French singer-songwriter.
1947Jim Fielder, American bass player[†]
Jim Fielder is an American bassist, best known for his work as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Prior to BS&T, he was rhythm guitarist for Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention.
1947Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health[†]
Ann Noreen Widdecombe is a British politician and television personality who has been Reform UK's Immigration and Justice spokesperson since 2023. Originally a member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and The Weald, and the former Maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010. She was a member of the Brexit Party from 2019 until it was renamed Reform UK in 2021, and served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 2019 to 2020; she rejoined Reform UK in 2023.
1947Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)[†]
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.