Wednesday, September 5, 1945

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The Headlines

Morgan Estate Leased by Russia For Recreation Use by Its Buyers; PALATIAL ESTATE TO HOUSE SOVIET PURCHASING COMMISSION

#1 on Your Hit Parade

On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

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• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Louis XIV (1638)
• Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
• Tommaso Campanella (1568)
• Werner Herzog (1942)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)