Wednesday, April 26, 1944

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The Headlines

KING SEES CHANCE OF 1944 NAZI ROUT; Admiral Says Allies Are Ready Then to Swing Full Might Against Japanese Nazi Rout, Shift of Might on Japan, Possible This Year, King Declares

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Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

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On This Day

• Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

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• Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
• AD 121 (121)
• AD 757 (757)
• Eugène Delacroix (1798)
• I. M. Pei (1917)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

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