Saturday, October 21, 1944

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The Headlines

Leyte Invasion Opens Way To Cut Life Lines of Japan; INVASION OF LEYTE ENDANGERS JAPAN

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You Always Hurt the One You Love

The Mills Brothers

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On This Day

• World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.

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• World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.

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• World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alfred Nobel (1833)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
• Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
• Hongwu Emperor (1328)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)