Monday, April 30, 1945

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The Headlines

Nazis in Berlin Compressed Into 18-Square-Mile Pocket; RUSSIANS TIGHTEN INNER BERLIN RING Swinemuende Drive Gains 20-Mile Gains scored Laval Seen Seeking Trial

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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: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.

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• World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9,000 American and British airmen.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
• Mary II (1662)
• Claude Shannon (1916)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)