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Borchardt, H; Conspiracy of the Carpenters
USSR forces advance, Orel; close in on city; Gers admit withdrawals; Stalin halls gains and cites units, order of day addressed to Gens Rokossovsky and Vatutin and Col Gen Popoff; Gers admit Leningrad breach
LARCHMONT, N.Y., July 24 -- In patches of a local southwest breeze that made the sailing of a crazy quilt pattern, Corny Shields came through today out on Long Island Sound to take the International Class race with his sloop Aileen.
CHICAGO, July 24 -- Slide Rule, a little chestnnut colt that had failed in three previous starts at Washington Park, found the race he was looking for today -- a $53,450 victory in the $72,000 Arlington Classic.
1943Jim McCarty, English singer and drummer[†]
James Stanley McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and Renaissance. McCarty has performed and recorded as a drummer and occasional singer with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot, Illusion, Box of Frogs, the British Invasion All-Stars, and Pilgrim. He was also a keyboardist for Stairway and, under his own name, a guitarist in the Jim McCarty Band.
1943Erika Steinbach, Polish-German politician[†]
Erika Steinbach is a German right-wing politician. She previously served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 2017.
1943World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.[†]
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: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of Mousiotitsa, Greece.[†]
The Massacres of Mousiotitsa refer to Nazi war crimes perpetrated in the summer of 1943 by soldiers of the 1st Mountain Division in the village of Mousiotitsa, Greece, during its occupation by the Axis in World War II. Mousiotitsa endured two assaults by the same German unit, separated by a one-month period. The first took place on 25 July and the second on 27 August 1943.