Tuesday, July 28, 1942

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The Headlines

Last Extra Session Was Held in 1920

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Jingle Jangle Jingle

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Karl Popper (1902)
• Ludwig Feuerbach (1804)
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929)
• Marcel Duchamp (1887)
• Beatrix Potter (1866)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)