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Conf with Mayor Kelly and CIO officials in Internatl Harvester Co jurisdictional dispute
informed by newspaper correspondent of Yugoslav coup d'etat
Cheren surrenders to Brit; battle described; end to Eritrean campaign seen; Brit take Harar; Belgian and African troops capture Gambela, Ethiopia; Brit planes bomb Jibuti rr; map
Knox and Knudsen deny issuing ultimatum, reply to Murray's challenge of right to act; Stimson and Patterson express accord with Knox-Knudsen appeal; Sec Perkins says she was not consulted on action
BERLIN, March 27 -- Germany has demanded that the new Yugoslav military regime make clear "without delay" whether it intends to support the Axis powers and the previous government's adherence Tuesday to the Three-Power Alliance, it was stated reliably tonight.
1941Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (born 1883)[†]
Marcus Latimer Hurley was an American cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in sprint cycling and won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2 mile race.
1941Virginia Woolf, English writer (born 1882)[†]
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
1941World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.