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MaGuire efforts fail; regional WLB chmn calls both sides to meet in strike settlement attempt; LaGuardia announces Health Dept will take over elevator operation in tall apt bldgs as emergency health service
Army agrees to release miners
Gen Hershey clarifies Selective Service Act veterans re-employment provision interpretation; rehiring rules discussed
GB to refer issues to UNO; claims all Allies share responsibility; GB displeased with Truman lr; Zionists plan protest against Brit action
MacArthur bars warships production
1945Lou Dobbs, American journalist and author (died 2024)[†]
Louis Carl Dobbs was an American conservative political commentator, author, and television host who presented Moneyline from 1980 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his death, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeartRadio and loudobbs.com.
1945Carson Van Osten, American comics creator and musician (died 2015)[†]
Carson Van Osten was an American comics creator and musician.
1945John Rutter, English composer, conductor, and producer[†]
Sir John Milford Rutter is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. He founded the Cambridge Singers who premiered and recorded many of his works for his own label Collegium Records. His compositions, extended pieces for choir and orchestra, such as Requiem and Magnificat, and many choral works including For the beauty of the earth, Christmas Carol and A Clare Benediction, are popular, especially in the UK and the United States. He is known for Christmas carols, in both arrangements of traditional melodies and new compositions, and Carols for Choirs anthology series compiled with David Willcocks.
1945Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (born 1882)[†]
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.