Friday, August 4, 1944

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The Headlines

BRETON FOE IS SPLIT; U.S. Columns Push On for Ports of Brest and St. Nazaire PRISONERS NEAR 100,000 St. Malo Is Cut Off by First Army -- Allies Closing Trap on Eastern Wing BRETON FOE SPLIT BY U.S. COLUMNS

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Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

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On This Day

• The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

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• Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of Finland to replace the resigned Risto Ryti.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis Armstrong (1901)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
• Knut Hamsun (1859)
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
• William Rowan Hamilton (1805)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)