Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős from the age of 14. He is currently a professor and chair of excellence at the University of Memphis.

1943Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden^[†]

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, is a member of the Swedish royal family. She is the fourth child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the youngest of the four older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf. She uses the name Christina Magnuson in a professional capacity.

1943Steven Millhauser, American novelist and short story writer^[†]

Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler.

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1943Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)^[†]

Frumka Płotnicka was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror. She was one of the organizers of self-defence in the Warsaw Ghetto, and participant in the military preparations for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto, Płotnicka relocated to the Dąbrowa Basin in southern Poland. On the advice of Mordechai Anielewicz, Płotnicka organized a local chapter of ŻOB in Będzin with the active participation of Józef and Bolesław Kożuch as well as Cwi (Tzvi) Brandes, and soon thereafter witnessed the murderous liquidation of both Sosnowiec and Będzin Ghettos by the German authorities.

Headlines from August 3, 1943

TAX LIGHTER HERE, MORGENTHAU SAYS; We Pay Only 36% of Costs to Canada's 47, United Kingdom's 52, Secretary Declares

OWI Director Forecasts Invasion Of Continent by Way of England; DAVIS FORECASTS CHANNEL INVASION

2 KEY TOWNS TAKEN; San Stefano, Mistretta Captured as Enemy Retreats in North EIGHTH ARMY DRIVES ON British in Outskirts of Catania, Rome Radio Says -- Naples Bombed by Fortresses 2 KEY TOWNS TAKEN IN SICILIAN THRUST

DRAFT OF FATHERS ORDERED FOR OCT. 1 WHERE QUOTAS LAG; Local Boards Are Directed to Act When Other Classes Do Not Give Number Needed 300,000 FACE CALL BY JAN. 1 McNutt Points Out Selective Service Is Near End of Its Other Available Men DRAFT OF FATHERS ORDERED FOR OCT. 1

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