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NEW LONDON, Conn., March 10--The United States Coast Guard Academy team captured the championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association tonight. Competing against three other teams, of which the one ...
Two large deals in Nassau County featured the Long Island realty market during the past week. One was a sixteen-acre country estate at Brookville and the other a thirteen-room residence in Garden City assessed at $57,000.
Two acreage deals in the upper part of Westchester County have been closed through the brokerage office of Thomas C. Grimes Company.
GUAM, Sunday, March 11--The heart of Tokyo is gone. Ashes and still flaming ruins cover the ground where large industry, small industry and homes stood only twenty-four hours ago in fifteen square miles of the center of Japan's capital.
Frustrated in their attempt to achieve a sweep of every first place by a two-yard setback in the six-lap relay, a new event on the program, the Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School athletes, nevertheless, set an all-time ...
1945Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)[†]
Dock Phillip Ellis Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1968 through 1979, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates teams that won five National League Eastern Division titles in six years between 1970 and 1975 and won the World Series in 1971. Ellis also played for the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers and New York Mets. In his MLB career, Ellis accumulated a 138–119 (.537) record, a 3.46 earned run average, and 1,136 strikeouts.
1945Harvey Mandel, American guitarist[†]
Harvey "The Snake" Mandel is an American guitarist best known as a member of Canned Heat. He also played with Charlie Musselwhite and John Mayall as well as maintaining a solo career.
1945World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.[†]
The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed between 1952 and 1954 after the dissolution of the IJN.
1945World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established.[†]
The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan between March 11 and August 25, 1945. It was a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was ruled by the Nguyễn dynasty and created when Emperor Bảo Đại declared independence for Vietnam from French protection. At the end of its existence, on 14 August 1945, the empire also successfully reclaimed Cochinchina as part of Vietnam.