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Westbound transport plane crashes near Fairfield, Utah; 17 dead, Lt A F Gardner and R V Mallett hurt; M J Dahl and Capt S Falkenrath describe scene; crew pors
Policemen and firemen pay rise bill: passed by Sen
Allied planes destroyed by Jap naval air units and Jap planes lost, Buna area, Nov 24-Dec 8
USSR forces gain 2 places, west of Rzhev; Gers slow up USSR Stalingrad drive; USSR forces destroy Ger blockhouses and artillery nests, near Rzhev-Vyazma ry; gain, central area and northwest and southwest of Stalingrad; fight continues inside city; USSR forces check Ger gains, southwest of Stalingrad; Gers seek to dent Volga-Don corridor; push westward near Velikiye Luki; rept USSR forces repulsed from Caucasus to northwest of Moscow and encircled southwest of Toropets; Ital troops repulse USSR forces on Don
Comment on Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union strike
1942Donald Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island[†]
Donald Louis Carcieri is an American politician and corporate executive who served as the 73rd Governor of Rhode Island from January 2003 to January 2011. Carcieri has worked as a manufacturing company executive, aid relief worker, bank executive, and teacher. He is the latest member of the Republican Party to have served as Governor of Rhode Island.
1942The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.[†]
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.