in Paris, France (d. 2003) Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998) Dalida, Egyptian-born French singer (birth name Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti), in Cairo (d. 1987). Died: Louis Comfort Tiffany, 84, American stained-glass artist and jewelry designer Ormond Stone, 86, American astronomer. January 18, 1933 (Wednesday) Angelo Herndon, a 19-year-old African-American and Communist Party member, was convicted of an attempt to incite an insurrection, and sentenced by a state court in Atlanta to 18 years imprisonment. In 1937, the United States Supreme Court declared the Georgia law, which made membership in the Communist Party and solicitation for membership illegal, to be an unconstitutional infringement on the right to free speech, and reversed Herndon's conviction. Herndon's case attracted black membership in the CPUSA. Murray Garsson, at that time a special investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, announced that he would seek the deportation of foreign film stars who had been staying in the United States illegally, beginning on January 23. Among the most prominent foreign stars at the time were Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Fifteen actors who failed to produce their papers were asked to leave the country until they could obtain entrance under the immigration quotas. Born: John Boorman, English film director (Deliverance, Excalibur and Hope and Glory); in Shepperton. January 19, 1933 (Thursday) The first 100 of 312,500 1933 Double Eagle $20 gold pieces were delivered by the United States Mint to the U.S. Treasurer. Because the coins were never put into circulation, and nearly all would be melted into gold bricks, they became the most rare and valuable of American coins. A single one would sell at a 2002 auction for $7,590,020. U.S. Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee was first offered the position of Secretary of State by President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt. Hull considered the offer for several weeks and then accepted. Sixty inches of snow fell on the Giant Forest in California, an American record for greatest snowfall in one calendar day. The record for 24 hours was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake in Boulder County, Colorado, during April 14–15, 1921. Mary, Lady Bailey, British aviator who had disappeared while attempting a solo flight from England to South Africa, was located and rescued after four days in the Sahara Desert. She had been forced to land 15 miles southwest of Tahoua, Niger, French West Africa, and was dehydrated and exhausted, but uninjured. January 20,