Thursday, October 19, 1944

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The Headlines

GERMANS PROLONG AGONY OF AACHEN; Block by Block Is Wrested From Them -- Americans Blast Them Out of Buildings STALKING THE ENEMY IN THE RUBBLE OF AACHEN GERMANS PROLONG AGONY OF AACHEN

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On This Day

• United States forces land in the Philippines.

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• A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
• John le Carré (1931)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433)
• Michael Gambon (1940)

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

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