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In 1924 George Herbert Walker---------- , former President of the United States, born. ?

In 1929 Anne---------- , diarist, born. ?

In 1932 Jim---------- , actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC; Mayberry RFD), singer, born. ?

In 1937 USSR executes ------- army leaders as Stalin's purge continued?

In 1964 ---------- begins a long jail term in South Africa. ?