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discusses US air operations, Pacific
Australians capture Brunei; advance to within 1/2 mi of Timbalan airstrip, Labuan; Allied planes blast Jesselton and Kiningau airfields; US PT-boats bombard Lutong and Miri areas and land shore raiding party on Sangihe Is; Australians sweep up coastal rd from Brunei aided by Borneo aborigines; Jap demolition squads reptd destroying oil installations; Tokyo radio admits fall of Tarakan; map
wild disorder marks Jap final stand, Oroku Peninsula
NYC plans; motorcade route details; NYC Estimate Bd rejects Bor Pres Burke motion to close schools for day; action taken to curb paper-throwing; Natl Father's Day Com repts Eisenhower acceptance of designation 'Fighting Father of Yr,'
Truman asks parley to rush pact with hope of obtaining Sen ratification before proposed Big 3 United Nations Conf; Pres to fly Charter back to Washington, DC; Vandenberg doubts Sen battle
1945Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino judge and politician (died 2016)[†]
Miriam Palma Defensor-Santiago was a Filipino scholar, academic, lawyer, judge, author, stateswoman, and politician who served in all three branches of the Philippine government: judicial, executive, and legislative. She was named one of The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in 1997 by The Australian. Defensor Santiago was known for being a long-serving senator of the Philippines, an elected judge of the International Criminal Court, and the sole female recipient of the Philippines' highest national honor, the Quezon Service Cross.
1945Robert Sarah, Guinean cardinal[†]
Robert Sarah is a Guinean Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 23 November 2014 to 20 February 2021. He previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI. He was made a cardinal in 2010.
1945Lawrence Wilkerson, American colonel[†]
Lawrence B. Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.
1945Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Austrian diplomat[†]
Albert Viktor Julius Joseph Michael Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat who served as Ambassador to London at the outbreak of World War I.