IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES.
1854.—Florence Nightingale, with British nurses, landed at Scutari. • 1850.—Birth of Paderewski. 1860. —Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States. 1867.—First Parliament of Dominion of Canada met.
1876.—Opening of Oamaru and Moeraki railway. 1892.—Death of Lord Tennyson. 1893.—Death of Tschaikowsky. 19Q8. —Main Trunk line opened. . 1917.—Battle of Passchendaele. 1918. -German delegates left fo hear armistice terms from Marshal Foch. 1935.-Wedding of Duke of Gloucester and Ladv Alice Montague-Douglas-Scott. 1940.—Greeks captured 4,000 Italians in Santa Aporos Valley. 1940.—Five men killed in mine disaster at Ten Mile Creek, West Coast. 1940.—Complete military occupation of Rumania by Germans. 1943.—Russians retook Kiev.
Allied forces in Holland break through to the -river Maas.
Liberation of Walcheren Island almost complete. Last Germans reported driven from Greece.
With Red armv on Budapest's doorstep, Budapest radio issues mobilisation call to all forms of transport in city. Heavy fighting continues in East Prussia.
Singapore attacked by forces .of Super-Fortresses for first time since it fell to Japan. Indian Division in Burma engaged in fierce battle for Kennedy Peak. Allied forces in Italy advance from Forli airfield.
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Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 1
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181IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 1
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