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Sen Butler cites US financing and lack of mil value
US planes attack Jap shipping, Amoy; map
RAF bombs Berlin and Frankfort; Gers claim more than 15 bombers downed; US fliers bomb Bremen; with RAF bomb Ger airfields and mil targets in Pas de Calais and Cherbourg areas; 61 Ger planes downed in day
Local 112 walkout plans
USSR forces take Gomel and places beyond; Stalin orders salvos; forces converge on fleeing Gers; Gers retreat through 50-mi-wide corridor toward Minsk; Gers rush up reserves to hold escape gap; USSR forces repel attacks in Korosten, Chernyakhov and Brusilov areas; Ger radio admits check in Kiev counter-attack; map
1943Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet[†]
Nicole Brossard is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.
1943Jil Sander, German fashion designer[†]
Heidemarie Jiline "Jil" Sander is a German minimalist fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house.
1943Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician (born 1916)[†]
Ivan Ribar, known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav Croat communist politician and military leader. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ. During World War II in Yugoslavia, Ribar was among the main leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans and was a member of the Partisan Supreme Headquarters. During the war, he founded and ran several leftist youth magazines. In 1942, Ribar was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ). He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoč while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command.