Friday, June 23, 1944

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The Headlines

NAZI LINES POUNDED; 80-Minute Air Blasting Opens American Drive to Take French Port SUBURBS ARE PIERCED Germans Shell British Sector -- Patrols Prod Foe Near Carentan In the Wake of the Fighting: A Battle-Scarred France NAZI LINES POUNDED BEFORE CHERBOURG

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I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes

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On This Day

• An F4 tornado tears through the Appalachian Mountains, killing over 100 people in West Virginia, particularly in the town of Shinnston.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alan Turing (1912)
• Anna Akhmatova (1889)
• Edward VIII (1894)
• Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
• Oda Nobunaga (1534)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)