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Backs Controller McGoldrick for Mayor
Arrives, LaGuardia Field; revs 1st Div role, press conf
Chinese retake Tsinkong; pursue retreating Japanese toward Liuchow; are reptd 7 1/2 mi from Paoking; hold 155-mi breach in Jap land corridor; battle in Szelo outskirts; converge on Liuchow in 3 columns; seize Tienho; US planes hit Jap artillery column moving eastward from Liuchow in Towpai area; hit Paoking warehouse dist; Japanese gain west of Siangsiang; US planes blast Nanyang ammunition dump and Tsinan airdrome; Wedemeyer sees Allied major offensive soon; Maj Gen Chennault lauds Chinese armies; map
Tokyo radio repts entire Jap naval air corps converted into suicide planes
Capture anniv noted
1945Anthony Braxton, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer[†]
Anthony Braxton is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto sax. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo saxophone music.
1945Daniel Topolski, English rower and coach (died 2015)[†]
Daniel "Dan" Topolski was a British author, rower, rowing coach and commentator on BBC television. He studied at the University of Oxford where he represented the Blue boat twice, in 1967 and 1968. In 1977, he won a gold medal at the World Rowing Championships. He coached the Oxford University Boat Club crew on fifteen occasions, leading them to victory twelve times, including a ten-win streak. He also coached British squads at two separate Olympic Games. After retiring from coaching he commentated on rowing at the Olympic Games and Boat Races.
1945Gordon Waller, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)[†]
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller was a Scottish guitarist, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as Gordon of the 1960s pop music duo Peter and Gordon, whose biggest hit was the no. 1 million-selling single "A World Without Love".