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Roosevelt asserts we must get manpower; says penalties can depend on individual cases; Cong conferees study Austin compromise measure
RAF hits ry yds on main Ruhr lines
Russians take Alt-Passarge, gaining complete control of Passarge River mouth; Newecken and Grunau taken; fierce fighting for Jarft River crossings covering Heiligenbeil southern approaches reptd; USSR Air Force planes sink 3 more Ger transports, Pillau
Sec Eden restates foreign policy principles
1945Eric Roth, American screenwriter and producer[†]
Eric R. Roth is an American screenwriter. He has been nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and Dune (2021) — winning for Forrest Gump; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). Roth also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
1945World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany, is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.[†]
Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km (19 mi) southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Leine River.
1945The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.[†]
The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and North Yemen. Currently, the League has 22 members.