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CBS radio correspondent repts Gers bombed 3 Allied hosp ships off Ital beach at Anzio, sank 1
cross Mussolini Canal
Sen subcom hearing on Labor Bur costs index begins; P Murray, A Flaxer, J Alessi, A F Hinrichs testify
grand jury indicts Briggs for forging Hopkins lr, mail fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses; others in case cleared; Sparks comments
1944Angela Davis, American activist, academic, and author[†]
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
1944Jerry Sandusky, American football coach and criminal[†]
Gerald Arthur Sandusky is an American convicted serial child molester and retired college football coach.