Monday, April 5, 1943

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OPA CHIEF WEIGHS CLOSING LOOPHOLE ON POINT CUTTING; Enforcement Division Here Appeals to Brown to End Cut-Rate Meat War MAYOR OFFERS A REMEDY He Also Says New Regulation Soon Will Assure City a Good Poultry Supply OPA CHIEF IS ASKED TO END POINT CUTS

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On This Day

• World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the residential area hit.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Thomas Hobbes (1588)
• Bette Davis (1908)
• Gregory Peck (1916)
• Pope Urban VIII (1568)
• Spencer Tracy (1900)

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Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

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