On this day
June 21, 1943
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Headlines from June 21, 1943
Bombings of Ruhr Cut Coal for Danes
Deliveries to Denmark reptd cut by Ruhr bombings
LE CREUSOT RAIDED; RAF BOMBS SMASH GREAT ARMS PLANT; ATTACK IN FRANCE Biggest British Planes Fire Schneider Works, Hit Power Station ONLY 3 AIRCRAFT LOST Nazis' Repairs After Blow in October Knocked Out -- Allied Daylight Offensive Goes On LE CREUSOT RAIDED BY RAF BOMBERS
attacks trawlers and other shipping, Channel
Throngs Jam Near-By Beaches As City Swelters in 88 Heat; BEACHED BY THE HEAT ON THE EVE OF SUMMER BEACHES CROWDED AS SUMMER NEARS
Crowd noted
ICKES ACTS TODAY; Direct Plea Made to Him by Union for Move to Permit Work COLLUSION LAID TO WLB Policy Committee Says That It Plotted With Operators to 'Hold Miners at Bay' COAL TRUCE ENDED; STRIKE RENEWEL COAL OPERATORS FAIL TO REACH AGREEMENT WITH MINERS
to curb coal use because of coal strike; ODT may order dimout to save coal
Notable Births
1943Diane Marleau, Canadian accountant and politician, Canadian Minister of Health (died 2013)[†]
Diane Marleau, was a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2008, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Marleau was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
1943Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (died 2013)[†]
Brian Sternberg was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963.