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October 23, 1941

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O'DWYER DEMANDS CITY INVESTIGATE RIVAL'S 'MILLION'; Repeats His Manager's Charge of Heaviest Spending Since 'Scandal Campaign' of '17

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O'Dwyer demands City Council investigate LaGuardia's campaign expenses; scores booklets distribution; in radio s charges LaGuardia backers have appealed to racial and religious prejudice to defeat him; quotes from Daily Worker and Amer Labor party left wing pubs; s to Ad Club of N Y and to Bronx and Manhattan rallies

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Notable Births

René Metge

1941René Metge, French rally driver (died 2024)[†]

René Jean Metge was a French professional rally driver. He won the Dakar Rally three times, in 1981, 1984 and 1986.

Colin Milburn

1941Colin Milburn, English cricketer (died 1990)[†]

Colin Milburn was an English cricketer, who played in nine Test matches for England, before an accident led to the loss of much of his sight and prompted his retirement.

Igor Smirnov (politician)

1941Igor Smirnov, Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of Transnistria[†]

Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov is a Russian-born Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic.

Historical Events

The Holocaust

1941The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.[†]

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.