despite a search of the Pacific route by rescue airplanes. Out of his $10,000 winnings, pilot Jensen gave his navigator, Schulter, only $25. Born: Bernard Cornfeld, controversial American investor and financier who operated Investors Overseas Service in the 1970s; in Istanbul (d. 1995) Died: Ivar Fredholm, 61, Swedish mathematician who posed the problem and solution of the Fredholm integral equation Thursday, August 18, 1927 The lowest barometric pressure ever measured at sea level was taken by the crew of the Dutch ship S.S. Sapoerea during a tropical cyclone in the Philippine Sea, at 26.185 inches or 88.673 kilopascals. On October 12, 1979, an estimate of 25.69 in (87.00 kPa) was made by dropsonde observation from an aircraft during Typhoon Tip. Born: Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady, 1977 to 1981; as Eleanor Rosalynn Smith, in Plains, Georgia. In 1946 she would marry U.S. Navy Ensign and future U.S. President Jimmy Carter Friday, August 19, 1927 On their way to Hawaii to search for five missing fliers who had vanished during the Dole Air Race, Bill Erwin and Al Eichwaldt disappeared after sending a distress call. Their plane, the Dallas Spirit, had been forced out of the race three days earlier. When the search for the three airplanes was called off, the final death toll of the race was ten. On his 20th birthday, Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman was given full powers as the Maharaja of Tripura, one of the princely states of British India. In Cleveland, the Terminal Tower was topped off at 708 feet and 52 stories. At the time, it was the second tallest building in the world, second only to the 57 story, 792 foot Woolworth Building in New York. Born: L.Q. Jones, American character actor, producer and director; as Justice McQueen, Jr., in Beaumont, Texas Hsing Yun, Chinese Buddhist monk and founder of the Fo Guang Shan order; in Jiangsu Saturday, August 20, 1927 Mao Zedong, a lower level member of the Chinese Communist Party, was approached in Hunan by an agent of the Soviet Union's Comintern, and advised that Moscow wanted the CCP to organize workers, peasants, and soldiers into Communist groups. "Mao's instinct for power," wrote one observer later, "led him to grasp immediately the potential of the message." Argentina returned to the gold standard, thirteen years after suspending the export of gold during World War One. Born: Peter Oakley, also known as "geriatric1927", former