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May 11

1872

Birth date of Morris Llewellyn Cooke, consulting management engineer, Rural Electrification Administration administrator, 1935-37. (died March 5, 1960)

1885

Birth date of King Oliver, cornetist and bandleader. (died 4/8/38)

1888

Birth date of Irving Berlin, songwriter. (died 9/22/89)

1891

Birth date of Henry T. Morgenthau, Jr., advisor to FDR. (died 2/6/67)

1893

Birth date of Roy Emerson Stryker, government official and documentarian. (died 9/26/75)

1935

FDR establishes Rural Electrification Administration.