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Dewey warned to make strong campaign in Mich to offset CIO drive; spends day with mother
USSR troops penetrate Transylvania; take Sfantu-Gheorghe and Bicsad; approach Club; capture Bicazul-Ardelean and 60 towns; force Bicaz Pass; Gers rept USSR units cross eastern Balkan mts in drive Howard Greek Aegean coast; Gers rept they wiped out USSR parachutists, Turnu-Severin sector, near Yugoslavia; USSR units take Varna, Rusa Moldovita and Brosteni in Bukovina drive; Malinovsky hon for war role; map
Fires first US gun into Ger
WLB steel panel rept completion near; speculation on Roosevelt ruling on Little Steel formula
1944Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (died 1974)[â ]
Everaldo Marques da Silva, nicknamed Everaldo, was a footballer from Brazil who played as a left back for GrĂȘmio and the Brazil national team. He won the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The golden star in GrĂȘmio's flag was added in 1970 in his homage.
1944Freddy Thielemans, Belgian educator and politician, Mayor of Brussels (died 2022)[â ]
Freddy Thielemans was a Belgian socialist politician who was the mayor of the City of Brussels from 2001 to 2013, and previously also for a period in 1994.
1944World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.[â ]
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world at the time. Since its formation, the RAF has played a significant role in British military history. In particular, during the Second World War, the RAF established air superiority over Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, and led the Allied strategic bombing effort.