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Sec Sinclair holds bombing of Ger will shorten war and cut land losses
OPA issues summonses to NYC motorists to enforce ban; Coffey comments; Wash drafts plans to cut B, C and T coupons
personnel changes rumored
conferees fail to agree; final session planned; Dems may query Roosevelt on his views; Knutson comments
City Council abolishes funds for attendance messengers and asst soc service case workers
1943Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)[†]
Elizabeth Williams was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
1943Tommy John, American baseball player[†]
Thomas Edward John Jr., nicknamed "the Bionic Man," is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 26 seasons between 1963 and 1989. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, California Angels, and Oakland Athletics. He was a four-time MLB All-Star and has the second-most wins (288) of any pitcher since 1900 not in the Hall of Fame. Known for his longevity, John was the Opening Day starter six times – three for the White Sox and three times for the Yankees.
1943Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.[†]
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.