Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

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Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland

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Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver

Birth

Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus

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Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78

Death

NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and

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Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water

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Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil

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Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)

Birth

Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths

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West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

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Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich

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Silvio Blatter, writer

Birth

United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor

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Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)

Birth

Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA)

Birth

Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48

Death

Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45

Death

Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61

Death

1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win

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1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins

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Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)

Birth

Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)

Birth

73øF (23øC) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January

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UN begins counter offensive in Korea

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