Beatrix Potter, author of the Peter Rabbit books, died at age 77.
Potter was from a family that held extensive agricultural lands and was, in addition to being an author, a sheep farmer. She married in 1914 over the disapproval of her family, as her husband, a country solicitor, was regarded as being beneath her status. Never having had any children, she left most of her large landholdings to the National Trust. Her husband, who died in 1945, left the balance of them to the National Trust.
Good people.
Some not so good people, including one Adolf Hitler issued a Führerbefehl creating the Nationalsozialistische Führungsoffiziere who were charged with getting German soldiers to believe in final victory, even if they were clueless on how that would come about.
Hmmm. . . .
On the same day the German government ordered that males down to 16 years of age register for conscription.
Hmmm. . . .
The Red Army completed its victory in the Second Battle of Kiev.
The German light cruiser Niobe was sunk off of Siba Yugoslavia by British torpedo boats.
