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LaGuardia puts club on probation; club dismisses 7 employes; promises to end Costello connection
USSR troops gain, Nish drive; reach Vrazogrnac, 49 mi from Nish; by-pass Bor copper mines; widen Danube bridgehead; capture Negotin and Recka; Tito partisans Zajecar capture cited; USSR forces drive toward Belgrade; consol southern Danube bank beachhead along 85 mi strip; Gers rept heavy fighting along Czech border and southeastern Hungary; Szeged and Cluj drives continue; USSR troops reptd battling to widen Mures River bridgehead; Yugoslav partisans threaten Gers, northwest of Belgrade; other forces thrust toward Hungarian frontier, Slatina and Virovitica areas; map
Lt Col A K Billings, head of mil govt in Roetgen, repts on Roetgen occupation; US Army rules obeyed; L Barth, believed pro-Nazi, installed as temporary Burgemeister
1944Vernor Vinge, American author (died 2024)[†]
Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace". He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
1944World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.[†]
The Warsaw Uprising, sometimes referred to as the August Uprising, or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army. The uprising was timed to coincide with the retreat of the German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet advance. While approaching the eastern suburbs of the city, the Red Army halted combat operations, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to destroy the city in retaliation. The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II. The defeat of the uprising and suppression of the Home Army enabled the pro-Soviet Polish administration, instead of the Polish government-in-exile based in London, to take control of Poland afterwards. Poland would remain as part of the Soviet-aligned Eastern Bloc throughout the Cold War until 1989.