Tuesday, November 7, 1944

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The Headlines

LAST JAPANESE GRIP ON LEYTE IMPERILED; Americans Drive 4 Miles South on Mountain Road to Ormoc -- Foe's Air Attacks Dwindle LAST ENEMY HOLD ON LEYTE PERILED

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On This Day

• Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.

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• Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Marie Curie (1867)
• Albert Camus (1913)
• Leon Trotsky (1879)
• James Cook (1728)
• C. V. Raman (1888)

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Tech Check

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

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