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August 19, 1945

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To Sell Brooklyn Shipyard

By Unknown Author

The Brooklyn shipyard of Wheeler Bros., Inc., will be sold at auction Saturday, Aug. 25, on the premises by the Joseph P. Day Organization. The property is on Coney Island at the junction of Cropsey way.

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RATIONING OF TIRES SEEN REST OF YEAR; Rubber Companies Not Due for Capacity Operations for at Least 6 Months SCARCITY TO LAST MONTHS Seen Continuing 10 Months to Year--Shortage of Other Products Also Forecast

By Charles A. Donnelly

Rubber companies will not operate at full capacity in the manufacture of peacetime products for at least six months, even though they face fewer reconversion problems than other interests, representatives of the industry declared yesterday.

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Notable Births

Dennis Eichhorn

1945Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (died 2015)[†]

Dennis P. Eichhorn was an American writer, best known for his adult-oriented autobiographical comic book series Real Stuff. His stories, often involving sex, drugs, and alcohol, have been compared to those of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Charles Bukowski.

Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington

1945Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, English politician[†]

Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, 9th Prince of Waterloo, 10th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, 9th Duke of Victoria, styled Earl of Mornington between 1945 and 1972 and Marquess of Douro between 1972 and 2014, is a British peer and politician. He served as Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Surrey (1979–1984) and Surrey West (1984–1989) and has sat as an excepted hereditary peer in the House of Lords since 2015.

Ian Gillan

1945Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter[†]

Ian Gillan is an English singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple. He is known for his powerful and wide-ranging singing voice.

Notable Deaths

Tomás Burgos

1945Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (born 1875)[†]

Tomás Burgos Sotomayor was a Chilean philanthropist, one of the strongest supporters of the "mutualist movement" and the founder of "Villa Lo Burgos", the present city of Purranque.

Historical Events

Viet Minh

1945August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.[†]

The Việt Minh is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam, which was a communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Ho Chi Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Việt Minh Front, it was created by the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) as a united front to achieve the independence for the nation of Vietnam and later established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), being the predecessor of the contemporary Socialist Republic of Vietnam.