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US State Dept announces US-Brit pact to bar Ger cos and their branches in former occupied countries from collaboration with Axis; will also use blacklists against Japan
Allied guns and planes pound Calais as Canadian infantry sweeps through town's outer defenses
Govt Plan presented in White Paper; provisions; differences from Beveridge plan cited; Min of Reconstruction press conf attended by US Repr Miller
4 survivors of 30 paratroopers who tried to hold Rhine footbridge at Arnhem describe bitter fight
1944Jan Brewer, American politician, 22nd Governor of Arizona[†]
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Arizona Senate, and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and served as Secretary of State of Arizona from 2003 to 2009.
1944Keith O'Nions, English geologist and academic[†]
Sir Robert Keith O'Nions, is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.
1944Anne Robinson, English journalist and game show host[†]
Anne Josephine Robinson is a British journalist and television presenter, best known as the host of BBC game show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012, and again in 2017 for a one-off celebrity special for Children in Need. She presented the BBC consumer affairs programme Watchdog for a total of 15 years, from 1993 to 2001 and again from 2009 to 2015. Robinson hosted the Channel 4 game show Countdown from June 2021 to July 2022, taking over from Nick Hewer. She left the programme on 13 July 2022 after one year, recording a total of 265 episodes.