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1935 - Birth of Justin Tubb in San Antonio, Texas, USA; country singer (Grand Ole Opry).

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1937 - Birth of George Thoma in Germany; cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960).

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1938 - Birth of Jean-Loup Chrétien; first French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6).

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1939 - Soviet forces under Lieutenant General Georgi Zhukov counterattack Japanese invaders at Nomanhan in the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia) on the border with Manchukuo.

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1940 - Birth of Sam Melville in Utah, USA; actor (Mike Danko - Rookies, Roughnecks).

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1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

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1940 - Frank Jackson, agent of Josef Stalin, stabs Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City.

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1941 - Birth of Slobodan Milosevic; president of Yugoslovia (dies 2006).

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1941 - Birth of William H Gray III in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1978-).

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1942 - Birth of Hans-Joachim Klein in Germany; 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964).

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