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November 19, 1943
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Headlines from November 19, 1943
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WARSHIPS PUMMEL BUKA BASES OF FOE; Shell Airfields on Island North of Bougainville -- Enemy Sinks One Ship in Convoy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Friday, Nov. 19 -- American warships, flaunting an implied challenge at the naval might of Rabaul, have ventured less than 200 miles from that Japanese fortress for the second time this month to shell enemy air bases on Buka Island, off the northern tip of Bougainville.
ARMY EXPENDITURES CUT BY 13 BILLIONS; TAX EFFECT IS SEEN; Snyder Announces on House Floor That Saving Will Be Put in Escrow
Repts to House on probable army savings
Japanese Fleet's Position; AMERICANS PUT ON THE PRESSURE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH PACIFIC
Jap planes raid Funafuti
Notable Births

1943Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator[†]
Fred Lipsius is an American musician who is the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano. He was with the band from 1967 to 1971 and has collected 3 GRAMMY Awards and 9 Gold Records.

1943Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (died 1990)[†]
Aurelio Faustino Monteagudo Cintra, nicknamed "Monty", was a right-handed screwball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball. He was the son of former big-leaguer René Monteagudo.
Notable Deaths

1943Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (born 1895)[†]
Miyagiyama Fukumatsu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture. He was the sport's 29th yokozuna, and the last yokozuna in Osaka sumo.
Historical Events
1943Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.[†]
Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently called Hitler Fascism and Hitlerism. The term "neo-Nazism" is applied to far-right groups formed after World War II with similar ideology.