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USSR announces Belgorod loss; repts advance on Smolensk; forces take Novorossiisk area towns; bomb Helsinki; Finns rept gains in Aunus Isthmus and more fighting on Karelian Peninsula; Ger need to change Donets front tactics reptd
Sened capture described
Churchill proposes post-war Council of Eur with feds of small nations to aid peace enforcement
Heroes' Day
OPA announces pre-rationing freeze of butter, cheese, fats and oil sales
1943George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
George Washington Benson is an American jazz fusion guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
1943Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and manager (died 2013)[†]
Nazem Ganjapour was an Iranian football player. In the last match of Shahin against Tehranjavan, he scored a hat trick. After this he joined Persepolis. Later, he was a scout and coached youth clubs.
1943Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1976)[†]
William Keith Relf was an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for rock band the Yardbirds. He then formed the band Renaissance with his sister Jane Relf, the Yardbirds ex-drummer Jim McCarty and ex-The Nashville Teens keyboardist John Hawken.
1943World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.[†]
Khatyn was a village of 26 houses and 157 inhabitants in Belarus, in Lahoysk Raion, Minsk Region, 50 km away from Minsk. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village was massacred by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans.