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anthracite conf opens; UMWA presents miners demands, including 25% wage rise, 10c tonnage royalty, shift differentials, travel time, severance pay and vacation pay rise
London reveals that US 'droop-snoot' P-39 modified Lightning bomber leads standard P-38 in precision bombing formations
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Amers win 1/6 of Okinawa; rept Jap defenses still scattered; US carrier planes attack Amami group; Amers push south, Okinawa; US lines noted; control east coast from Yaga to Kuba; 5th Fleet units attack southern sector where Japanese believed concentrated; marines overrun Katchin Peninsula; control Nakagusuku harbor eastern shore; Amers moving down west coast reach within 2 mi of Machinato airfield and 4 mi of Naha; reptd days ahead of schedule
Slovakia: Bratislava falls to USSR troops
1945Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player[†]
Ove Nils Bengtson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won five doubles titles. Bengtson was a member of the Swedish Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1979, posting a 7–14 record in singles and a 15–14 record in doubles. He was part of the Swedish team winning the 1975 Davis Cup, defeating Czechoslovakia in the final in Stockholm.
1945Steve Carver, American director and producer (died 2021)[†]
Steve Carver was an American film director, producer, and photographer.
1945Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (died 2004)[†]
Muhtar Cem Karaca was a Turkish legendary rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such as Apaşlar, Kardaşlar, Moğollar and Dervişan. With these bands, he brought a new understanding and interpretation to Turkish rock.
1945Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)[†]
Thomas Smith was an English footballer, who played as a defender at Liverpool for 16 years from 1962 to 1978. Known for his uncompromising defensive style, manager Bill Shankly once said of him: "Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried". A central defender for most of his career, Smith's most memorable moment for the club probably came when he scored Liverpool's second goal in the 1977 European Cup Final against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Smith played once for England in 1971, and also played at club level for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Los Angeles Aztecs and Swansea City.
1945Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (born 1912)[†]
Heinrich Borgmann was a German officer during World War II. He was seriously injured by the 20 July plot bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.
1945Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (born 1897)[†]
Karl-Otto Koch was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.
1945Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.