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January 21, 1943

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Headlines from January 21, 1943

MOST MINERS VOTE TO RETURN TO PITS; 8,000 Rush to Comply With the President's Order -- 3,600 Still Defy Warnings MOST MINERS VOTE TO RETURN TO PITS

By Walter W. Ruchspecial To the New York Times

WILKES-BARRE, Jan. 20 -- All except 3,600 of the striking anthracite miners, heeding warnings from President Roosevelt and top officials of the United Mine Workers of America, voted in local meetings today and tonight to go back to work tomorrow morning after twenty-two days of idleness in protest against a 50-cent dues increase.

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Notable Births

1943Zdravko Hebel, Croatian water polo player (died 2017)[†]

Zdravko Hebel was a Croatian water polo player notable for winning a gold medal with the Yugoslavian water polo team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

1943Arnar Jónsson, Icelandic actor[†]

Arnar Jónsson is an Icelandic actor. He has played more leading roles in theaters than any other Icelandic actor. He starred in the film Outlaw and also in 17 other leading roles and about 200 other roles in theater.

Alfons Peeters

1943Alfons Peeters, Belgian footballer (died 2015)[†]

Alfons Peeters was a Belgian footballer. During his career he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht. He earned 4 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

1943Kenzo Yokoyama, Japanese footballer[†]

Kenzo Yokoyama is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for, and then managed, the Japan national team.

Historical Events

1943As part of Operation Animals, British SOE saboteurs destroy the railway bridge over the Asopos River, and guerrillas of the Greek People's Liberation Army ambush and destroy a German convoy at the Battle of Sarantaporos.[†]

Operation Animals was a World War II mission by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), in cooperation with the Greek Resistance groups ELAS, Zeus, EDES, PAO and the United States Army Air Force. The operation took place between 21 June and 11 July 1943 and included an organized campaign of sabotage in Greece, to deceive the Axis Powers into believing that Greece was the target of an Allied amphibious landing, instead of Sicily. Despite the mission's success, the Greek civilian population suffered from mass reprisals and British intervention into the internal affairs of the Greek resistance exacerbated the tensions between its various components.