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White House statement reveals Brit-US London confs, July, attended by H L Hopkins, Gen Marshall and Adm King; Churchill comments, Commons
ODT rules war necessity ctfs needed to operate commercial vehicles; motorcycles excluded
USSR admits new Axis penetration of defenses, Novorossiisk area
US rejects Laval protest; to continue raids; occupied France press comment; Paris radio urges Brit and US natls be made raid hostages; Rouen raid casualty and damage summary
Allied planes raid Jap invaders, Kokoda-Myola area; bomb barges, Buna area; hit warships, north of Milne Bay; Jap casualties in Milne Bay action put at 700; Japanese bomb Allied positions, Milne Bay; Allied-Jap clashes reptd, Mubo; map
1942The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (died 2023)[†]
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known by his ring name the Iron Sheik, was an Iranian and American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and actor. To date he is the only Iranian-born champion in WWE history, having won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship in 1983.
1942Inez Foxx, American singer (died 2022)[†]
Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals and played guitar. Casey Kasem, and doubtless many others, mistakenly thought that the two were husband and wife.
1942Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist (died 2022)[†]
Daniel Ira Kalb was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was an original member of the 1960s group the Blues Project.
1942Adele Kurzweil, Austrian Holocaust victim (born 1925)[†]
Adele "Dele" Kurzweil was an Austrian girl of Jewish origin who was tracked down by Nazi Germany and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp at arrival. Her fate became widely known after suitcases had been discovered in 1990 at her family's last refuge in the southern French town of Auvillar.
1942World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.[†]
The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From August 1910 to September 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan. The South Seas Mandate and concessions such as the Kwantung Leased Territory were de jure not internal parts of the empire but dependent territories. In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized surrender was issued on September 2, 1945, in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan.