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January 3, 1943

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Notable Births

Van Dyke Parks

1943Van Dyke Parks, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, author, and actor[โ€ ]

Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, singer, and former Warner Bros. Records executive whose work encompasses orchestral pop, elaborate recording experiments, Americana iconography, free-associative lyrics, and Caribbean sounds. He is best known for his 1967 album Song Cycle and his collaborative work with acts such as the Beach Boys, Lowell George, and Harry Nilsson, as well as various film and television scores.

Notable Deaths

Walter James (Australian politician)

1943Walter James, Australian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (born 1863)[โ€ ]

Sir Walter Hartwell James, was the fifth Premier of Western Australia and an ardent supporter of the federation movement.

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Headlines from January 3, 1943

PEACETIME PLANTS NOW MAKING ARMS; Vast Conversion Program Put Into Effect to Supply Our and Allies' Fighting Forces PEACETIME PLANTS NOW MAKING ARMS MUNITIONS: THE BEST, AND ONLY THE BEST, FOR THE UNITED STATES AND HER ALLIES

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Thousands of American manufacturing companies and plants of all kinds and sizes, converted from making many varied types of peacetime goods, have participated in the production of guns, shells, small arms ammunition, motor vehicles and miscellaneous munitions of every conceivable kind.

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