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US guns hammer Ger positions miles behind battlefront
1st US forces land
Ger radio hints USSR troops cross E Prussia frontier; bombers blast Ger mil trains, Goldap; Gen Chernyakhovsky troops reptd extending front south, Kalvarija, Lithuania-Schirwindt
Elections Bd defeats motion to demand special Legis session to extend voting hrs
1944George McCrae, American singer[†]
George Warren McCrae Jr. is an American soul and disco singer who is most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".
1944Bill Melchionni, American basketball player[†]
William P. Melchionni is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) player. A three time All-Star, Melchionni is one of only four players to win NBA and ABA championships.
1944Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1987)[†]
Winston Hubert McIntosh, professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion.
1944Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (born 1884)[†]
Dénes Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician of Hungarian Jewish heritage who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory.
1944United States forces land in the Philippines.[†]
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita. The operation, codenamed King Two, launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
1944A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.[†]
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides was the acting President of Guatemala from 4 July 1944 to 20 October 1944. He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution.