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Pa independent anthracite miners defy edict to end bootlegging situation revd
US bomber blasts Jap cruiser near St George Channel; planes raid Bonis and Buka airstrips; US spokesman repts Jap and US casualties, Bougainville, 10 days
draft bd quota lag laid to father-draft uncertainty; Jan, '44, induction quota estimated at 300,000
LaGuardia announces plan to give cost-of-living pay rises to 160,000 employes out of current budget accruals; indicates longer hrs may be necessary, radio s
1943Bobbi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)[†]
Barbara Ann "Bobbi" Martin was an American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She was raised and began her singing career in Baltimore, working her way up from local venues onto the national nightclub circuit.
1943Sue Miller, American novelist and short story writer[†]
Sue Miller is an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels. She graduated from Radcliffe College.
1943The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).[†]
The Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia, commonly abbreviated as the AVNOJ, was a deliberative and legislative body that was established in Bihać, Yugoslavia, in November 1942. It was established by Josip Broz Tito, the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans, an armed resistance movement led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to resist the Axis occupation of the country during World War II.