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| ... film career. This was in part due to her intentionally humorous singing style, which involved her singing in a deadpan manner, with no facial expressions and very little movement- reportedly she stumbled upon this "gimmick" by accident during a stage show when she became virtually paralyzed with stage fright before singing a number in the Los Angeles stage production "Meet T... |
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... six heavy and four light cruisers, 11 destroyers, one submarine and some 500 planes, with approximately 10,000 sailors killed. The first organized use of Kamikaze's by the Japanese are reported. (WATCH VIDEO) (8:57)
1944 October 23, THE HUNTING SEASON (Eretz-Israel)
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... Army crosses the Volturno River.
1943: The Russians reach Melitopol in southern Ukraine.
1943: The whole of the New Georgia group of islands in the Solomon's are reported in allied hands.
1944: Russian troops capture Riga, the capital of Latvia as Army Group North withdraws in to the Kurland pocket.
1944: The Australian Liberal Party... |
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... so far on northern Italy, with more than 1,000 tons dropped on Milan in under 30 minutes.
1943: 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain. The damage reported includes 120 planes destroyed and three destroyers sunk.
1943: The U.S. Fifth Army begins an offensive along the Volturno river in Italy.
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1944: U.S. B-29 Superfortresses pound Formosa and Okinawa. The Formosa bombardment lasts seven days, during which over 650 Japanese planes are reported as destroyed.
1945 October 10, ATLIT (Eretz-Israel)
In a daring raid, the Palmach freed 208 "illegal" im... |
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... German troops complete the evacuation of the island of Corsica.
1943: The first of two heavy raids by a US Navy Task Force against Wake Island, with 61 Japanese aircraft being reported as destroyed.
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... Jews permission to re-enter it.
1596 October 2, AMSTERDAM (Holland)
Yom Kippur services were held for the first time. Neighbors, thinking they were secret Catholics, reported them to the authorities and the leaders were arrested. Once it was explained that they were secret Jews rather than Papists, they were left alone and the leaders released.
1870. ... |
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... David Hayes and Brent Walker's The Films of the Bowery Boys (Citadel, 1984).
As Evelyn Jane Nigh, she dies from a stroke at age 68 in Bakersfield, California. Her death isn't reported in film annuals until three months later.
Jane Nigh Pin-up Gir... |
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... 1942
1943: British Air Ministry says that Hamburg now lies in absolute ruins and is 'probably the most complete blotting out of a city that ever happened.'
1943: Germans are reported to have been forced out of Sardinia by the Italian resistance.... |
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... hostage and executed by the Nazis in reprisal.
1943: British occupy Leros in Aegean. German counterattacks against the U.S. bridgehead at Salerno are halted. Tito's partisans are reported to have captured Split on Yugoslavia coast.
1943 September 16, GOLDMANN PLAN (USA)
Nahum Goldmann proposed a plan to send $10 million (partially funded by Jewish co... |
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