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August 7, 1944

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Headlines from August 7, 1944

STRIKERS GO BACK IN PHILADELPHIA; SOLDIERS ON CARS; Six-Day Transit Tie-Up Ends in Rush to Comply With Army's Work Deadline LEADERS ARE OUT ON BAIL Grand Jury to Start Inquiry Wednesday Into Possible Plot to Cause Walkout TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IS RESUMED IN PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Strikers Go Back; Soldiers Are Posted in All Cars

By Walter W. Ruchspecial To the New York Times

service resumed as strikers return to work; FBI agents assemble data for grand jury inquiry; 4 arrested strike leaders out on bail for 2d hearing; grand jury inquiry plans; TWU Local 234 resolution on Roosevelt message; Hayes cancels employe vacations

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Notable Births

John Glover (actor)

1944John Glover, American actor[†]

John Glover is an American actor, known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, such as Lionel Luthor in Smallville and the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe. He also played the role of Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).

Robert Mueller

1944Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation[†]

Robert Swan Mueller III is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.

Historical Events

IBM

1944IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).[†]

International Business Machines Corporation, nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.