Friday, April 27, 1945

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The Headlines

War News Summarized

#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'm Beginning to See the Light

Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.

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• World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
• Herbert Spencer (1820)
• Samuel Morse (1791)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)