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OPA announces A coupons must last through Nov 22; issues instructions for ration book mail renewal
Views on internatl collaboration brought to Repub post-war policy conf
Allies drive 10-mi salient into Calabrian mts; ten towns and 1,000 prisoners captured, bridgeheads reptd strengthened; Naples area bombed; map
Repts on boron agr use, Amer Chem Soc
survivors comment, NYC
1943Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter[†]
Gloria Fowles, known professionally as Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know " (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974).
1943Beverley McLachlin, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of Canada[†]
Beverley Marian McLachlin is a Canadian jurist and author who served as the 17th chief justice of Canada from 2000 to 2017. She is the longest-serving chief justice in Canadian history and the first woman to hold the position.
1943Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (born 1868)[†]
Marie Louise "Mary" Karadja was a Swedish writer, spiritual medium and aristocrat, a central figure in Western esotericism during the Belle Époque. Born in Stockholm to the business magnate Lars Olsson Smith, she married prince Jean Karadja Pasha, an Ottoman diplomat, with whom she had a son, the Romanian diplomat and scholar Constantin Karadja. She lived in various European countries, and published works in several languages—beginning with aphorisms in French. Her involvement with Kardecist spiritism dates to 1899, and was prompted by the deaths of an infant son and of her husband the prince. Under the influence of spiritism, Theosophy and neo-gnosticism, the princess produced spirit drawings and writings that she stated were inspired and dictated to her spiritually. She was a literary celebrity in her native country for a while, and corresponded with August Strindberg; she was also heavily criticized for her claims by investigators such as Henry Morselli and Joseph McCabe, and was a regular target of Birger Sjöberg's satirical articles.
1943A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.[†]
The Gulf Hotel fire claimed 55 lives in the early-morning hours of September 7, 1943 in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The fire remains the worst loss of life in a fire in the city's history.
1943World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.[†]
The German Seventeenth Army was a field army of Nazi Germany during World War II.