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Victory-starved by college opponents during the summer season, Columbia's baseball team broke its losing habit at Baker Field yesterday by shading Princeton, 2 to 1, in an exceptionally speedy and well played game.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28 -- The first meeting of the Dodgers and the Phillies since Freddy Fitzsimmons took over the pilot-house of the Quaker craft was nothing to warm the cockles of Fitz's heart.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will meet again in Washington next week. It was believed here tonight that they would devote considerable time to talking about Russia and the prospects of arranging a conference with high Russian representatives.
SHAKAMAK STATE PARK, Ind., Aug. 28 -- Coach Charles L. (Bud) Sawin found out today that his ace didn't count, but he came up with three queens to give the Riviera Club of Indianapolis a commanding advantage for the first three days in the chase for the 1943 women's national swimming championship.
C B Rader, NY Mercantile Exch mgr, on country shippers new wholesale ceiling
1943Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (died 1996)[†]
Mohamed Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist.
1943Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer (died 2022)[†]
Richard Bernard Halligan was an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
1943Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Arthur Bruce McDonald P.Eng is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.
1943World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.[†]
At the outset of World War II in September 1939, Denmark declared itself neutral, but that neutrality did not prevent Nazi Germany from occupying the country soon after the outbreak of war; the occupation lasted until Germany's defeat. The decision to occupy Denmark was taken in Berlin on 17 December 1939. On 9 April 1940, Germany occupied Denmark in Operation Weserübung. The Danish government and king functioned in a relatively normal manner until 29 August 1943, when Germany placed Denmark under direct military occupation, which lasted until the Allied victory on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish institutions continued to function relatively normally until 1945. Both the Danish government and king remained in the country in an uneasy relationship between a democratic and a totalitarian system until 1943 when the Danish government stepped down in protest against German demands that included instituting the death penalty for sabotage.