Marilyn Foreman, better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

1944Michael Tugendhat, English lawyer and judge^[†]

Sir Michael George Tugendhat, styled The Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat, and referred to as Tugendhat J in legal writing, is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales. He was the High Court's senior media judge, taking over that role from Mr Justice Eady on 1 October 2010.

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1944Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (born 1877)^[†]

Alois Kayser was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar. In 1943, he was deported along with Pierre Clivaz, a Swiss missionary, as well as most of the Nauruan population, by the Japanese to Truk Atoll in Micronesia, where he died.

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1944World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.^[†]

HMAS Australia (I84/D84/C01) was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of two Kent-subclass ships ordered for the RAN in 1924, Australia was laid down in Scotland in 1925, and entered service in 1928. Apart from an exchange deployment to the Mediterranean from 1934 to 1936, during which she became involved in the planned British response to the Abyssinia Crisis, Australia operated in local and South-West Pacific waters until World War II began.

1944World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.^[†]

The Nemmersdorf massacre was a civilian massacre perpetrated by Red Army soldiers in the late stages of World War II. Nemmersdorf was one of the first prewar ethnic German settlements to fall to the advancing Red Army during the war. On 21 October 1944, Soviet soldiers killed many German civilians as well as French and Belgian POWs.

1944World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.^[†]

The Battle of Aachen was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October 1944. The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr basin. Although most of Aachen's civilian population was evacuated before the battle began, much of the city was destroyed and both sides suffered heavy losses.

Headlines from October 21, 1944

Leyte Invasion Opens Way To Cut Life Lines of Japan; INVASION OF LEYTE ENDANGERS JAPAN

DRIVES UNDER WAY; Americans on Leyte Are Reported Nearing Big Tacloban Airfield JAPANESE STIFFENING But We Push On Inland -- Division That Seized Bataan Opposes Us DRIVES UNDER WAY ON LEYTE ISLAND

Hull Enters Hospital For Physical Check

SOVIET GAINS GROW; New Push Into Hungary Near Danube Aims to Envelop Budapest NAZI LOSSES SEVERE 3 Russian Columns Bore Into East Prussia -- Foe Admits New Retreat SOVIET GAINS GROW; BELGRADE IS SEIZED

CLOUDS OF PLANES SUPPORT M'ARTHUR; Nimitz Airmen Smash Ships and Aircraft by Score, Tear Up Airfields in Philippines CLOUDS OF PLANES SUPPORT M'ARTHUR

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