Wednesday, February 14, 1945

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The Headlines

Forces to Get More Cigarettes, Cutting Supplies for Civilians; MORE CIGARETTES WILL GO TO FORCES

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Rum and Coca-Cola

The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.

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• World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans

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• World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.

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• World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Babur (1483)
• C. T. R. Wilson (1869)
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404)
• Michael Bloomberg (1942)
• Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)