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Duesseldorf Nazi party heads reptd arrested for black market operation
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Chinese retake Changyang and Chihkiang in push to Yangtze west bank; Jap communications to Ichang threatened; Jap retreat hampered by Chinese-US air attacks; Chinese surround Kungan; take Hwangmei; break Jap attacks west of Taiheng Mts and counter-attack; results of Chinese-US air action, Yangtze-Lake Tungting area, estimated; map
1943John Burgess, Australian radio and television host[†]
John Richard Burgess is an Australian radio and television personality and host. He is often referred to as "Burgo" and sometimes "Baby John Burgess" or "Baby John", nicknames deriving from his radio days when he was the youngest presenter at the station. He has worked in the industry since 1963. He is best known for his long-term hosting of the Australian version of game show Wheel of Fortune and as a breakfast radio host.
1943Sandra Haynie, American golfer[†]
Sandra Jane Haynie is an American former professional golfer on the LPGA Tour starting in 1961. She won four major championships, 42 LPGA Tour career events, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
1943Tom Jaine, English author[†]
Tom Jaine is a former restaurateur, a food writer and former publisher of Prospect Books.
1943A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.[†]
The 1943 Argentine Revolution was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president before succeeding to the presidency in 1942 as part of the period known as the Infamous Decade. The coup d'état was launched by the lodge "United Officers' Group" (GOU), a secret military organization of nationalist nature. Although its soldiers shared different views of nationalism: there were Catholic nationalists, Radicals, military with a more pragmatic approach, and even fascists. The military was opposed to Governor Robustiano Patrón Costas, Castillo's hand-picked successor, a major landowner in Salta Province and a primary stockholder in the sugar industry. The only serious resistance to the military coup came from the Argentine Navy, which confronted the advancing army columns at the Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics.