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US bombers raid Hong Kong guided by fires from earlier raid
lauds crews heroism
Opinion on subsidy payments in farm price ceilings cited; scored by Ellender, Sen com hearing
USSR Army holds in seesaw combat, Stalingrad; Ger wedge thrust back by counter-attacks; lull in eastern Caucasus fighting reptd; Gers rept advances, both sectors
Japanese bomb Allied bases, Chittagong and northeast Assam
1942Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter[†]
Melvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music singer. Active since 1962, he won a Grammy Award and he has charted 33 singles on the Hot Country Songs with seven singles reaching the number one. He has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.
1942Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician[†]
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke, also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the leader of the Congress of the New Right (KNP), which was formed in 2011 from Liberty and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union, which he led from 1990 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003. He was the chairman of the party KORWiN until his resignation on 15 October 2022, and from 2019 to 2023 a member of the Sejm, elected from the electoral list of Confederation Liberty and Independence.
1942Helmuth Hübener, German activist (born 1925)[†]
Helmuth Günther Guddat Hübener was a German youth who was executed at age 17 by beheading for his opposition to the Nazi regime. He was the youngest person of the German resistance to Nazism to be sentenced to death by the Sondergericht People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) and executed.