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Eisenhower on Sicily campaign progress
Gers favored by natural defenses
WPB transfers jurisdiction over consumer service secs of service equipment div to A D Whiteside
Helicopter operation permits sought, NYC-Spring Lake, NJ, NYC-Atlantic City
UMWA signs separate agreement with Ill Coal Operators Assn, providing 2-yr no-strike contract, 8-hr 6-day wk, portal-to-portal pay and other pay benefits; portal pay to be retroactive to Oct, '38, 50% payable to Apr, '43 and payable in full since Apr; operators send agreement to WLB and ask OPA to permit price rise to cover increased costs; operators statement; speculation on WLB action
1943Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (died 2014)[â ]
Masaru Emoto was a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water. His 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller. His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.
1943Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician[â ]
Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, diplomat, and was the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she was a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.
1943Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)[â ]
Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. was an American singer and actor who was a teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller "Little Woman" (1969). Sherman left show business in the 1970s for a career as a paramedic and a deputy sheriff, but performed occasionally into the 1990s.
1943World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
1943World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.[â ]
The Axis powers, originally called the RomeâBerlin Axis and also RomeâBerlinâTokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to the Allies, but otherwise lacked comparable coordination and ideological cohesion.