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Hull and com believed drafting plan similar to Churchill's plan for world council and world assembly
US and French units take Sonnino and Roccasecca del Volsci
Allied bombers raid Milan, Monfiacone and Port Margherita near Venice
1944Phil Edmonston, American-Canadian journalist and politician (died 2022)[†]
Louis-Phillip Edmonston was a Canadian consumer advocate, writer, journalist, and politician. Along with Andrew Scheer, he was one of the few politicians with dual American and Canadian citizenship to be elected to the Parliament of Canada.
1944Jan Kinder, Norwegian ice hockey player (died 2013)[†]
Jan Runar Kinder was a Norwegian ice hockey player. He was born in Oslo, Norway and represented the club Hasle/Løren IL. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo in 1972, where the Norwegian team placed 8th.
1944Sam Posey, American race car driver and journalist[†]
Samuel Felton Posey is an American former racing driver and sports broadcast journalist.
1944Christian Wirth, German SS officer (born 1885)[†]
Christian Wirth was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel, Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims.