Thursday, August 16, 1945

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The Headlines

TO YIELD IN MANILA; Japanese Emissary Will Start From Kyushu in Plane Tomorrow OCCUPATION PLANNED Stern Guarantees Will Be Asked--'Bataan' Surrender Code Word Manchuria Is Linked M'ARTHUR CALLS JAPANESE ENVOYS Emissary's Departure Set Surrender to Democracy

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On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Zachary Taylor (1816)
• Charles Bukowski (1920)
• Menachem Begin (1913)
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845)
• T. E. Lawrence (1888)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)