Born. To Stevie Wonder, 24 (Né Steveland Judkins), Soul's manchild terrible, and Yolanda Simmons, 24, his former secretary: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Aisha Zakia.
Died. John Anthony Burns, 66, Governor of Hawaii from 1962 to 1974; of cancer; in Honolulu. Tough, tight-lipped and driven, Burns grew up in Honolulu's hardscrabble slums, becoming a paternalistic police captain who spoke for the loyalty of the Nisei population in the anti-Japanese hysteria that followed Pearl Harbor. After the war, Burns built the powerful and largely Japanese-Democratic machine that sent him as territorial Representative to Congress, where he helped win...
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