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by Atty Gen Biddle
WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Two proposals by President Roosevelt for removal of the nine French naval vessels now at Alexandria, Egypt, to safe havens have been rejected by the Vichy Government. Therefore, in the view of the United States Govern ment, the British would be wholly justified in destroying the warships.
Urges wage control, Sen
Gers advance in Don drive; battle rages inside Voronezh; Ger losses reptd high; Ger Kalinin thrust checked; USSR units regain ground, Moscow area; USSR spokesman S A Lozovsky repts next phase of campaign will bring USSR victory
1942Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (died 2005)[†]
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965. She and James Hood were the first black students able to enroll at the university since Autherine Lucy and Pollie Myers initially strove to desegregate the school. Malone became famous when George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, attempted to physically block her and Hood from enrolling at the all-white university. Malone faced threats and ostracism at the university but successfully graduated in two years with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management. Throughout her career, Malone continued to work for civil rights causes. She worked for various federal agencies like the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency, and served as executive director of the Voter Education Project.
1942Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1910)[†]
Wenceslao "Bintao" Quinito Vinzons Sr. was a Filipino patriot and leader of the Philippine armed resistance against the Japanese invasion in World War II. He was the youngest delegate to the 1935 Philippine Constitutional Convention. For leading demonstrations as a student leader, he was dubbed the "Father of Student Activism in the Philippines" when he, along with Narciso J. Alegre and future Senator and Vice President Arturo Tolentino, founded the Young Philippines Party.
1942The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.[†]
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.