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Allied deliverance of Cherbourg to him illus
Roosevelt signs price control extension bill; officials seek to meet deadline on revisions; summary
Gen Cnernyakhovsky army advances 19 mi across Berezina River north of Borisov, Rokossovsky army takes Talka and Slutsk, and Bagramian forces outflank Polotsk, taking Disna and Prozoroki in Minsk drive; fighting in Borisov sts noted; new offensive along Pripet River toward Pinsk and Brest-Litovsk opened; Govoroff army takes Berezovy-Navolok; over 6,500 Gers killed and 500 places taken in 23-mi advance to within 30 mi of Latvian border; Zakharoff army crosses Drutsk, takes Stoyalovo; map
Millions reptd spent to save him from execution; arrest, trial and execution described
1944Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021)[†]
Muhammad Nurul Haque Miah was a professor at Dhaka College and the head of its Department of Chemistry. He is renowned for writing high school and degree textbooks.
1944Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894)[†]
Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.
1944Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930)[†]
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva wrote the successive and unfortunate deaths of each member of her family from starvation and diseases such as dysentery and dystrophy over four and a half months in her diary, with the last family member to die being her mother, Mariya, on 13 May 1942. After her mother died, Tanya Savicheva wrote her final diary entry with the heartbreaking words, The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left. Savicheva was evacuated from the besieged Leningrad and sent to live in a orphanage, she eventually died from tuberculosis on 1 July 1944, at the age of 14, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.