Today in World War II History—October 9, 1939 & 1944

Pete Gray, 1946 (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

85 Years Ago—Oct. 9, 1939: German battleship Deutschland captures neutral US freighter City of Flint, creating an international incident.

Winston Churchill, W. Averell Harriman, Joseph Stalin, and Vyacheslav Molotov at Fourth Moscow Conference, Russia, Oct 1944 (W. Averell Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 179)

80 Years Ago—Oct. 9, 1944: Fourth Moscow Conference opens between Churchill and Stalin.

World Series concludes, with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the St. Louis Browns in the “Streetcar Series”; one-armed player Pete Gray plays for the Browns.

Barbara Miller Finch of Reuters becomes the first female correspondent to file a story from the Pacific, having received Navy credentials a few days earlier; she covers Admiral Nimitz’s press conference at Pearl Harbor.

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