Friday, February 16, 1945

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The Headlines

FIRST GREAT BLOW; Powerful Carrier Force Smashes at Air Bases In and Near Tokyo FIERCE SKY FIGHTS ON Fastest U.S. Battleships With 200-Mile Armada Off Honshu Coast A Full-Scale Attack TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE First Big Carrier Blow Hits Tokyo Major Moves Indicated Leader of Task Force 58 Fierce Air Battles Reported Formosa Bombed Again Boso Bases Hit, Says Tokyo

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The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.

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• The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Octave Mirbeau (1848)
• Kim Jong Il (1941)
• Ernst Haeckel (1834)
• Philip Melanchthon (1497)
• Francis Galton (1822)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)