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US 3d Army processes its 300,000th POW
LaGuardia announces he will ask Legis to authorize additional 1% sales tax over 3-yr period to finance subway and other transit lines repairs; plan approved by TWU local pres D L MacMahon; opposed by J L Lamula
Russians take Oliva in Danzig suburbs; other forces take Kowall and Borgfeld; forces battering toward Gdynia take Witomino and Maly-Kack; Zhukoff troops reptd battling for break-through along Oder west bank 38 mi from Berlin; Berlin repts 3 USSR pontoon bridges across Oder destroyed
Prefabricated design for war areas perfected; P L Wiener and assocs work described; ratio structures design outlined
Ger radio in panic over US 3d Army threat to Frankfort
1945Paul BĂ©renger, Mauritian politician, Prime Minister of Mauritius[â ]
Paul Raymond BĂ©renger is a Mauritian politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. BĂ©renger currently serves as deputy prime minister since November 2024 and has previously held the office twice from 1995 to 1997 and 2000 to 2003.
1945Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast and coach (died 2004)[â ]
Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin was a Soviet and Russian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won seven medals, including two gold, at the 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as two silver medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
1945David Lloyd George, English-Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1863)[â ]
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, for social-reform policies, for his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and for negotiating the establishment of the Irish Free State.
1945World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.[â ]
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.