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1944Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer (died 2020)[â ]
Eric Walter "Fritzy" Freeman was an Australian cricketer who played in 11 Test matches from 1968 to 1970. He was also a leading Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide Football Club, playing 116 games between 1964 and 1972, kicking 390 goals, and playing in their 1965 premiership team.
1944Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (died 1991)[â ]
Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Knowles.
1944ErnÅ Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube[â ]
ErnÅ Rubik is a Hungarian architect and inventor, widely known for creating the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, and Rubik's Snake.
toll reaches 163; properties put into receivership
J L Fry on internatl policy to be included in Ger surrender terms
Caen reception of Montgomery illus
Census Bur estimates population increases and shifts, Apr, '40, to July, '43
WITH AMERICAN FORCES, In Normandy, July 12 -- La Meauffe is an obscure village huddled beside an ancient chateau and a church on the Vire River five miles north of St. Lo. Our soldiers call it "Murphy," partly because that is the nearest that they can come to pronouncing it and partly because a "murphy" in Army slang is a bad situation.
Roosevelt expected to leave nomination to conv
Paris isolated by sabotage, bombings and decrees; ry sabotage mounts; Deat's home burned by patriots, Arbouse
Role in Wewak, New Guinea, action noted
La Meauffe battle and Ger fortifications there described
Yeremenko forces launch Latvian drive; seize Idritsa and Klyastitsy; Bagramian army closes pincer on Dvinsk; joint drives seen ultimately to force Gers back on Riga; Stalin order of day and salvos announce drive; cites 40 officers; Moscow repts Russian infantrymen bombard Ger defense belt, Panther line, and defeat 2 Ger Elite Guard divs after breaking Alolya River defense line; Kaunas threat grows as other units cross Lithuania pre-'39 border and take Vievis; map