Sunday, July 4, 1943

From the day

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The Headlines

Captain of U-Boat Seized by Victims

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer

Unknown Artist

The must-have

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On This Day

• World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.

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• World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Calvin Coolidge (1872)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
• Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
• Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)