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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- President Roosevelt removed one obstacle to settling the wage disputes affecting eighteen railway unions today by making known that he had no intention of freezing the wages of railroad employes for the duration of the war.
Vatutin forces take Zhitomir and other towns; reach point 35 mi from Polish border; Bagramian forces cut main Vitebsk-Orsha highway; Russians take Pogrebische; Malinovsky Ukrainian Army takes Aleksandrovka; London mil observers say Gers not routed
On govt egg price support program
1944Barry Beath, Australian rugby league player[â ]
Barry Beath is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, a second-row forward for the St. George Dragons in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition. He represented for New South Wales and in the Australia national rugby league team.
1944Jimmy Hart, American professional wrestling manager[â ]
James Ray Hart is an American professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician. He is signed to WWE in a Legends deal. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and used the nickname "the Mouth of the South".
1944Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani field hockey player and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2020)[â ]
Zafarullah Khan Jamali was a Pakistani politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2004. He was the first and only elected prime minister from Balochistan, Pakistan.
1944Teresa ToraÅska, Polish journalist and author (died 2013)[â ]
Teresa SÅawomira ToraÅska was a Polish journalist and writer. She was perhaps best known for her award winning monograph, Oni.
1944Mati Unt, Estonian author, playwright, and director (died 2005)[â ]
Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director.
1944Edwin Lutyens, English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869)[â ]
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth century".
1944Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (born 1862)[â ]
Charles Thomas Biass Turner was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia. Among his accomplishments were:taking 283 wickets in the English season of 1888 for 11.27 runs each. This tally was 69 wickets ahead of Ted Peate's 1882 record, and has been bettered only by Tom Richardson in 1895 and Tich Freeman in 1928 and 1933. taking 314 wickets in all matches in 1888. taking 106 wickets in twelve matches in the Australian season of 1887â88 â a record for any bowler in Australia taking 17 wickets for 50 runs against An England Eleven at Hastings in 1888. Of these 17, 14 were bowled, two lbw and one stumped. being the first Australian bowler to reach 100 wickets in Test matches. his 12 for 87 against England in his record season of 1887â1888 is still the best bowling analysis for a Test at the SCG. the only bowler to take 50 wickets in their first six Test matches.