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1st AAF announces exposure of racket in issuance of fraudulent med discharges and transfers, Mitchel Field, NY, wounded debarkation center; Col T G Wold statement
Charges rr facilities assigned to servicemen inadequate, Cong
discussion of shortage during Gen de Gaulle visit to US expected
On Pacific war outlook
WAKE ISLAND: US destroyer Murray intercepts Jap hosp ship, Takasago Maru, near Wake carrying Jap mil patients evacuated from island; permits lt to continue to Japan; bulk of Wake Jap garrison thought evacuated
1945Michael Ancram, English lawyer and politician (died 2024)[†]
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, Baron Kerr of Monteviot,, commonly known as Michael Ancram, was a British politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004, upon the death of his father.
1945Adele Goldberg, American computer scientist and academic[†]
Adele J. Goldberg is an American computer scientist. She was one of the co-developers of the programming language Smalltalk-80, which is a computer software that simplifies the programming language, and has been an influence on other programming languages such as Python, Objective-C, and Java. She also developed many concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s.
1945Helô Pinheiro, inspiration for the song "The Girl from Ipanema"[†]
Heloísa Eneida Paes Pinto Mendes Pinheiro, better known as Helô Pinheiro, is a Brazilian businesswoman and former model.