Historical Events
Event of Interest
Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders
Hermann Goering
- US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
Famous Birthdays
- Arnie Satin [Silver], American musician (The Dovells), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- George Edwards, composer
- Juliet Harmer, English actress
- Les Chadwick, English bassist (Gerry and the Pacemakers), born in Liverpool. England
- Nancy Greene, Canadian giant slalom (Olympic gold 1968)
Famous Deaths
- Szmul Zygielbojm, Jewish-Polish socialist politician (Bund) and activist, commits suicide to protest Allied indifference to the Holocaust during WWII at 48