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Sunday, November 19, 1944
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The Headlines
Ohio State Trips Illinois, 26-12, Before 83,627 for Eighth in Row; Buckeyes Rally After Greenwood Races 35 Yards to Score for Rivals Following Fumble Horvath, Brugge Star OHIO STATE TRIPS ILLINOIS, 26 TO 12
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Always Hurt the One You Love
The Mills Brothers
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
Wikipedia →World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
Wikipedia →The founding congress of the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine is held in Mukachevo.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- James A. Garfield (1831)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
- Charles I of England (1600)
- José Raúl Capablanca (1888)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
Gi
Bobby Soxer
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
29,783 days ago
(81 years, 218 days)