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Stettinius insists parley will succeed; US Sens divided on Security Assembly 3 votes proposal; Stettinius conf with US delegates; defers replies on secret vote plan
2,300 Sth AAF planes blast 5 U-boat yards at Bremen, Wilhelmshafen, Hamburg and Farge; encounter some Ger jet planes; RAF attacks Berlin and northern Ger airfield
Maj Gen Rose, aide and chauffeur adventure at Dill River noted
1945Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist and engineer[†]
Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3-D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
1945Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian[†]
Gabriel Weston Kaplan is an American actor, comedian, and professional poker player. He played the title character in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. He later became a professional poker player and a commentator for the series High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network.
1945Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (died 1995)[†]
Myfanwy Talog Williams, known professionally as Myfanwy Talog, was a Welsh actress and the long-term partner of English actor David Jason.
1945Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (born 1884)[†]
Frank Findlay was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
1945Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)[†]
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
1945World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.[†]
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.