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On This Day in Jewish History ...

1983		Former German Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1972		US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1958		Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
1940		Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
1937		1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1923		Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1918		Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1907		Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1861		1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
1840		Damascus Affair commenced
1428		King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

Famous Birthdays for This Day ...

1948		Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], Atlanta, (Stuntman, Shy People)
1943		Michael Mann, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends)
1934		Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)

Famous Yortzaits for This Day ...

1993		Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
1977		Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at 67
1961		Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
1956		Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74
1948		Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
1947		Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
1867		Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies