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FEA adopts program to train engineers in US colls for post-war reconstruction
Comr McNutt reptd in accord with Sec Ickes deferment demands, WMC hearing
USSR forces take Sverdlovo and Karpovo; rept Ger troops worn out; other forces take Skala, Borschev, Tsigany and Melnitsa-Podolskaya; Ger casualties heavy in attempt to break out of trap; Berlin repts heavy fighting at Tarnopol and around Stanislav and Brody; rept Kovel surrounded; map
raid Dili and Kupang; maps
1944Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist (died 2024)[â ]
Sheldon Jay Bachrach was an American insurance broker, investor, businessman, and philanthropist.
1944Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (died 2012)[â ]
Warner Fusselle was an American sportscaster remembered for contributions to the television shows This Week in Baseball and Major League Baseball Magazine, and for his memorable Southern voice. He was an announcer for several Minor League Baseball teams such as the Spartanburg Phillies, Richmond Braves, and the Brooklyn Cyclones from 2001 until his death from a heart attack at age 68. He was also a radio broadcaster for the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association until they folded operations in 1976.
1944Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor[â ]
Oshik Levi is an Israeli singer, actor, and entertainer.
1944Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (died 2002)[â ]
Julia Phillips was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael three prominent films of the 1970sâThe Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kindâand was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, received for The Sting.
1944Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany[â ]
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German former politician and lobbyist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). As chancellor, he led a coalition government of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens. Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom.
1944Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager[â ]
William Hambly Stoneman III is an American former professional baseball player and executive who, during his eight-year (1967â1974) pitching career in Major League Baseball, threw two no-hitters; then, as general manager of the Anaheim Angels (1999â2007), presided over the franchise's first-ever World Series championship in 2002. He later served briefly as the Angels' interim general manager from July 1 to October 4 of 2015.
1944In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy.[â ]
The Fragheto massacre was the massacre of 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans in Fragheto, a frazione of Casteldelci in central-northern Italy, on 7 April 1944, during World War II, by soldiers of the German 356th Infantry Division. After partisans belonging to the Eighth Garibaldi Brigade ambushed troops approaching the hamlet, fourteen soldiers of the Sturmbattaillon OB Sudwest conducted house-to-house searches and summarily killed civilians. Representing 40% of the hamlet's population, many of the victims were elderly people, women, or children. A further seven partisans and one civilian were shot the next day at Ponte Carrattoni, at the confluence of the Senatello and Marecchia.