Wednesday, April 7, 1943

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The Headlines

To Put Declaration On View in Capital

#1 on Your Hit Parade

I've Heard That Song Before

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.

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• Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.

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• The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William Wordsworth (1770)
• Gabriela Mistral (1889)
• Francis Ford Coppola (1939)
• Ravi Shankar (1920)
• Billie Holiday (1915)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)