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Nassau County commercial users and UN voluntarily dim lights for 3 hrs after Consol Edison turbo-generator break causes LI Lighting Co output cut
3 held, NYC, in plot to extort $100,000 from E Luckenbach Jr
1948Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory[†]
Hermann Maria Hauser KBE is an Austrian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England.
1948Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman, arts patron and television personality (died 2021)[†]
Sir Gerrard Jude Robinson was an Irish-born British business executive and television presenter. He was non-executive chairman of Allied Domecq and chairman/chief executive of Granada.
1948Brian Ross, American journalist[†]
Brian Elliot Ross is an American investigative journalist who served as the Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News until 2018. He reported for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20 and ABC News Radio. Ross joined ABC News in July 1994 and was fired in 2018. His investigative reports have often covered government corruption. From 1974 until 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News.
1948Jordi Sabatés, Spanish musician (died 2022)[†]
Jordi Sabatés Navarro was a Spanish pianist, composer, and arranger.