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com favors withholding tax; Paul revs Treas plan; com fails to agree on post-war refund program
Tobruk prepares for siege as Germans move up big puns
1st invasion anniv: Hitler expected to list German losses
Situation believed discussed at Churchill-Roosevelt conf, Wash
Sen subcom hearing; H A Simms, Southwest Rubber Reclaiming Corp v p, charges WPB froze machinery orders for projected Texas reclaiming plant; claims Dr H S Rogers and J H Davidson, WPB officials scorned plant plans; repts A B Newhall, WPB rubber coordinator, advised scrap supply too small to warrant new reclaiming plant; House subcom to demand WPB rehearing on machinery priority orders
1942Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist[â ]
Neil Sidney Trudinger is an Australian mathematician, known particularly for his work in the field of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations.
1942Brian Wilson, American singer, songwriter and producer (died 2025)[â ]
Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys and received widespread recognition as one of the most innovative and significant musical figures of his era. His work was distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. He was also known for his versatile head voice and falsetto.
1942The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-TotenkopfverbÀnde, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.[â ]
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 CheÅmno 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.