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Charles Kuralt, American journalist (CBS Sunday Morning) (d. 1997) September 10 – Mr. Wrestling II, American professional wrestler (d. 2020) September 12 – Albie Pearson, American baseball player d. 2023) September 14 – Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017) September 15 - Tomie dePaola, children's author and ...
The quintuplets' trust fund grew rapidly with each newspaper and newsreel that shared their name. In 1934, a photographer from the Toronto Star, Fred Davis signed a contract stating that the $10,000 (equivalent to $218,194 in 2023) the Newspaper Enterprise Association put into the trust fund disallows anyone else from photographing the ...
1934 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1934th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 934th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1930s decade.
A flood in Montrose, California killed at least 45 people. [1]The International Telecommunication Union was established.; The National Council for Civil Liberties was established in the UK by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.
A lot of U.S. history is too good to be true — and actually is not. Sometimes fact is ignored, or teachers miss the latest, and these tales are examples.
Mobs in Germany smashed the windows of the American-owned Woolworth department stores in reprisal for American boycotting of German goods. [ 8 ] Born: Monica Dacon , schoolteacher and politician, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ; Daphne Sheldrick , author and conservationist, in Kenya (d. 2018)
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
August 5 – Wendell Berry, American poet, novelist and activist (died 2019) August 6. Piers Anthony, English-born science fiction and fantasy writer; Diane di Prima, American poet of the Beat Generation and artist (died 2020) August 16 – Diana Wynne Jones, English children's fantasy novelist (died 2011) [21] September 11 – Leon Rooke ...