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Aqueduct: 1st 5 races won by Jockey Atkinson
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 16 -- The answers to two $64 questions will be found tomorrow when the Green Bay Packers and the Brooklyn Tigers pry the lid off the 1944 National Football League season here in the Packers' second home.
BOSTON, Sept. 16 -- A Dodger team made up mostly of junior varsity youngsters split a double-header with the Braves today, winning the opener, 5 -- 4, and dropping the nightcap, 4 -- 2, before a mild turnout of 2,944 fans.
1944Les Emmerson, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2021)[†]
Robert Leslie Emmerson was a Canadian musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Five Man Electrical Band, and their predecessor band The Staccatos. He also recorded as a solo artist, charting three top 40 hits in Canada, including the #5 hit "Control Of Me".
1944Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer and explorer[†]
Reinhold Andreas Messner is an Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol. He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen. He was the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds and also crossed the Gobi Desert alone. He is widely considered to be the greatest mountaineer of all time.
1944Jean Taylor, American mathematician and academic[†]
Jean Ellen Taylor is an American mathematician who is a professor emerita at Rutgers University and visiting faculty at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
1944World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden and British XXX Corps advances into the Netherlands as the "Garden" half of the Operation.[†]
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a salient spanning 62 miles (100 km) into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: seizing nine bridges with combined American and British airborne forces ("Market") followed by British land forces swiftly following over the bridges ("Garden").
1944World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.[†]
The Tallinn offensive was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock Army and 8th Army and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment Narwa and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944. Its German counterpart was the abandonment of the Estonian territory in a retreat codenamed Operation Aster.
1944World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.[†]
The Battle of San Marino was an engagement on 17–20 September 1944 during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War, in which German Army forces occupied the neutral Republic of San Marino and were then attacked by Allied forces. It is also sometimes known as the Battle of Monte Pulito.