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Stalin order of day announces Tartu capture by Gen Maslennikoff troops
Amers take Cannes and Antibes
US Signal Corps photo, one of 1st taken inside Paris, illus
Roosevelt uncertain whether Nelson will retain post after China return; Krug warns officials on internal disputes; Sens plan investigation of campaign against Wilson; speculation on WPB chmn
War Dept grants Socialist party request for radio time equal to that used by Roosevelt in Bremerton Navy Yd s to overseas forces; reverses decision, denying Roosevelt s was pol; party spokesmen assail dept action
1944Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester[†]
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. He is 32nd in the line of succession to the British throne, and the highest person on the list who is not a descendant of George VI. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne.
1944Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter[†]
Alan Frederick Parker is an English guitarist and composer.
1944Judith Rees, English geographer and academic[†]
Dame Judith Anne Rees,, is a distinguished academic geographer, was interim director of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from May 2011 until September 2012. Professor Rees also acts as director for its Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and is Vice-Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
1944Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer[†]
Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker is an American retired musician, singer, and songwriter who achieved international fame as the drummer of the rock band the Velvet Underground. Tucker occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, including the songs "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking With You".
1944Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (born 1909)[†]
Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism. A declared opponent of the Nazi regime from the beginning, he actively participated in the Kreisau Circle of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. Together with Claus von Stauffenberg and Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, he conspired in the 20 July plot and was supposed to have been appointed Secretary of State in the German Foreign Office and lead negotiator with the Western Allies if the plot had succeeded.
1944World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.[†]
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algiers putsch, he came out of retirement when appointed Prime Minister by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969.