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Sen O'Mahoney offers bill to increase sugar beet subsidies; House Repub com blames adm for shortage
1,500 US and Brit carrier planes attack Tokyo area; Brit, warships participating noted; B-29s rain fire-bombs on Hiratsuka, Numazu, Kuwana and Oita; Japanese rept US submarines shelled northern Honshu; marine planes raid Kushira airfield; attack Tanega Shima; map
Agr Econ Bur rept on chicken production, US, 6 mos '45
Repr Martin urges action; to offer resolution; text
1945Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia[†]
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, is the head of the House of Karađorđević, the former royal house of the defunct Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its predecessor the Kingdom of Serbia. Alexander is the only child of King Peter II and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark. He held the position of crown prince in the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia for the first four-and-a-half months of his life, until the declaration of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia later in November 1945, when the monarchy was abolished. In public he claims the crowned royal title of "Alexander II Karadjordjevic" as a pretender to the throne.
1945John Patten, Baron Patten, English politician, Secretary of State for Education[†]
John Haggitt Charles Patten, Baron Patten, is a British politician. He was formerly Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford and subsequently for Oxford West and Abingdon.
1945Ernst Busch, German field marshal (born 1885)[†]
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who commanded the 16th Army and Army Group Centre.
1945World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin hold the Potsdam Conference in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.[†]
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members were the "Big Four" – the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China.