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Allied bombers make heavy attack on Messina; rept harbor almost destroyed; Axis repts attack on Allied convoy between Sicily and Tunis and damage to 10 transports; rept not confirmed by Allies; Ital communique repts Allied raid on Naples suburbs
RAF attacks Ger convoy off Netherlands; repts ships and defending planes hit, mines enemy waters
Bulgaria reptd tense over Allied invasion threat; Premier Philoff and Axis and Bulgarian gens inspect defenses, western Thrace and Macedonia; Ger advisers urge Use of war prisoners for work on coastal defenses
reveals Brown telegram reptg ungraded egg ceiling under way
1943Jens Birkemose, Danish painter (died 2022)[†]
Jens Birkemose was a Danish contemporary painter.
1943Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic[†]
Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.
1943Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.