Thursday, July 6, 1944

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The Headlines

26 Japanese Vessels Sunk By U.S., British Submarines; 26 More Japanese Ships Sunk By U.S. and British Submarines

#1 on Your Hit Parade

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

Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes

The must-have

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On This Day

• Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to his court-martial.

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• The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Frida Kahlo (1907)
• 14th Dalai Lama (1935)
• Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940)
• Nancy Reagan (1921)
• Nicholas I of Russia (1796)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)