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8th Army closes in on Mareth Line
The city's first "double red" air raid drill under the new Army signal system will be held on Tuesday, starting at 9 P.M., Mayor La Guardia announced yesterday.
US Amb Hayes on econ conditions
Eyewitness acct of US bomber raid on Wilhelmshaven
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The War Labor Board warned the protesting employes of the Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle today that it would not proceed considering their case unless the men remained at their tasks, board members indicating that they would refuse to act with a "gun held at our foreheads."
1943Mary Frann, American actress (died 1998)[†]
Mary Frann was an American stage, film, and television actress.
1943Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor[†]
Morten Johannes Lauridsen III is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001, and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.
1943Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager[†]
Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira is a Brazilian former football manager who holds the record for attending the most FIFA World Cup final tournaments as manager with six appearances. He also managed five different national teams in five editions of the FIFA World Cup. He managed Brazil to victory at the 1994 World Cup, the 2004 Copa América, and the 2005 Confederations Cup. He is also the only manager to have led two different Asian teams to conquer the AFC Asian Cup.
1943Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (born 1859)[†]
Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis and Ioannis Polemis.
1943The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.[†]
The Smith Mine disaster was the worst coal mining disaster in the U.S. state of Montana, and the 43rd worst in the United States, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
1943The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.[†]
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.