Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. was an American musician who was most notable as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the 1970s Southern rock group the Marshall Tucker Band. A founding member of the band, Caldwell remained with the group until 1983. In addition to his role as lead guitarist, he was also the band's steel guitarist, and performed lead vocals including on one of the band's best-known hits, "Can't You See."

1947Amory Lovins, American physicist and environmentalist^[†]

Amory Bloch Lovins is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US National Petroleum Council, an oil industry lobbying group, from 2011 to 2018.

1947Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist^[†]

Joseph Anthony Mantegna is an American actor best known for starring on CBS's Criminal Minds since 2007 as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. He has voiced the recurring role of mob boss Fat Tony on the animated series The Simpsons, beginning with the 1991 episode "Bart the Murderer", as well as in The Simpsons Movie (2007).

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1947The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.^[†]

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly referred to as the Soviet Union or Russia, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was the flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

Headlines from November 13, 1947

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u208,000,000 in New Taxes To Dent Purses of Britons; NEW BRITISH TAXES TO NET u208,000,000

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DE GAULLE FOR TIES TO U.S. AND BRITAIN TO COMBAT SOVIET; Proposes French Alliances With West to Meet Threat Worse Than Hitler's Reich SAY REUNION IS GAINING Asks End of Minority Rule in Labor as Confederation Demands Pay Increases DE GAULLE FOR TIES TO U.S. AND BRITAIN

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