Sunday, June 21, 1942

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The Headlines

HOARDING OF CASH FOUND ON INCREASE; Fear of Compulsory Savings Law Said to Be Causing Many to Hold Currency

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Sleepy Lagoon

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.

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• World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
• Françoise Sagan (1935)
• Pope Leo IX (1002)
• Machado de Assis (1839)
• Siméon Denis Poisson (1781)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)