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Free French retire as Bir Hacheim falls to Axis; German and Brit versions; Itals rept Brit Taranto raid
U S Army airmen reveal destruction to Jap invasion fleet and task force; stress army-navy-marines coordination in U S attack; Jap raids on Midway Is revealed; Brig Gen W H Hale and U S pilot comment; Lt Col W G Sweeney Jr on U S bomber action; U S planes on arrival, Hawaii, from battle illus
secrecy of Molotoff London and Wash visits discussed
1942Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2020)[†]
Leonard Warren Borisoff, known professionally by the stage name Len Barry, was an American singer, songwriter, lyricist, record producer, author, and poet.
1942Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
1942Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.[†]
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl and diarist who perished in the Holocaust. She gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.