Sunday, April 29, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

Houses and Building for Trade Center Bought in Manhattan

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Dream

The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.

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• Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

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• World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.

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• World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Hirohito (1901)
• Henri Poincaré (1854)
• Alexander II of Russia (1818)
• Duke Ellington (1899)
• Harold Urey (1893)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)