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1945Angelo Castro Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (died 2012)[†]
Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr. was a Filipino broadcast journalist and actor. He was a news anchor for The World Tonight, the flagship news program of ABS-CBN and ANC. He anchored several ABS-CBN and ANC news and current events programs for the past 25 years. Castro is a recipient of the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.
1945World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.[†]
Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left (west) bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.
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Sen votes bill; Gov Dewey describes action as historic step; his role lauded
exch of lrs with Roosevelt noted; statement
Brit motorized column sleeps 35 mi in 11 days to capture Meiktila, trapping 30,000 Japanese in central Burma; pushes on to Thazi; reptd to have started from Pagan-Pakokku bridgehead area; Jap destruction of major store areas and Jap losses noted; Chinese advance to within 3 mi of Lashio while other Chinese capture Mansam and Panshkyem; Indian troops in Singu sector occupy position on Kethin Is and capture Shwegondaing and Shwepyi; Brit advance on Tamandu from 2 directions; map
Sec Forrestal rept, Iwo Jima campaign
Stargard, Naugard and Polzin among 230 places taken by Russians; Moscow silent on northernmost and Stettin thrusts details for security reasons; repts 5 Ger divs already shattered, Pomerania; Berlin repts Kolberg stormed by Russians; other troops take Gross-Tychow, site of US POW camp; prisoners fate undetermined; Rokossovsky eastern wing takes 8 places on 50-mi front, including Wiesenthal and Zuchen, some units reaching point within 30 mi of Danzig
believed bomb-damaged
Inter-Amer conf, Mex City, adopts slightly modified charter
Amer Cancer Control Soc to open fund drive for research program; research com apptmts and program
US 1st Army smashes into Cologne, taking 15 villages in advance; big explosion indicates probable Ger blowing of Hohenzollern Bridge; Ger house-to-house defense of city doubted; other 1st Army troops cross Erft River in Bonn drive; complete mopping up, Euskirchen; clear Gers from Billig and Kreuzwingart; take Dormagen and hold Rhine west bank from there to Worringen; other columns reach Rhine southeast of Duesseldorf; enter Rheinberg and occupy other towns; overrun Repelen; Allied forces to north further reduce Gers Wesel bridgehead; Brit planes drop 170 tons of bombs on Wesel bridge in day; troops take 2 major Ger ferry stations at Rees and Orsoy; Rhine bridges in sector discussed; 9th Army gains in Homberg battle; controls 15-mi Rhine stretch, Homberg to Neuss; Canadian Army troops take Wardt, reach Xanten outskirts; 3d Army extends Kyll bridgehead; US 7th Army clears Stiringwendel; liberates POW camp below Forbach; Cologne st map; area map
Nominated Fed Loan Adm and RFC head; Cong reaction favorable; J H Jones and H A Wallace hail nomination; por