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Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
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World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
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Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal (due to gambling, and "free games")
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World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
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Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
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Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin
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Weight Watchers forms
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Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton was born (greatest moonshiner to ever live)
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Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
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NASCAR is incorporated!!!!!!
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USSR performs first nuclear test, and explodes its first atomic bomb
