against the Communist Chinese forces of Mao Zedong, with Chiang's Nationalist Army moving into central China to take back rural areas that were under Communist control. The Nationalists had superior weapons and more troops, and Chiang received American aid for a strategy that he hoped would defeat Mao's forces within six months. Within nine months, it was clear that the campaign was failing, and by the end of 1949, China's mainland was under control of the Communist forces. On the day the campaign started, Nationalist Chinese pilot Liu Shanben defected to the Communists and delivered a B-24 Liberator bomber to the opposition, starting a wave of similar acts. Within three years, 54 pilots and 20 airplanes joined the Communist side. William Heirens, a 17-year-old student at the University of Chicago, was arrested for burglary, and soon charged with three murders tied to "The Lipstick Killer", including the January 7 murder of 6-year old Suzanne Degnan. Died: Alexander Duncan McRae, 71, Canadian multimillionaire June 27, 1946 (Thursday) All 46 people aboard the Spanish submarine C-4 were killed after the sub collided with the Spanish destroyer Lepanto during a naval exercise off of the Balearic Islands. The Canadian Citizenship Act was approved by Canada's House of Commons, separating Canadian citizenship from British nationality, effective January 1, 1947; Canada was the first Commonwealth country to create its own citizenship laws. Born: Sally Priesand, first woman rabbi in the United States; in Cleveland. Died: Juan Antonio Ríos, 57, President of Chile since 1942; of cancer June 28, 1946 (Friday) The first recorded birth in Japan of a baby born of a Japanese mother and one of the American soldiers occupying Japan, was announced on Japanese radio. The birth, the first of tens of thousands that would follow, came a little more than nine months after the first American occupation forces had arrived on the Honshu island. Born: Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress; in Detroit (d. 1989) Died: Antoinette Perry, 58, American stage actress for whom the Tony Awards are named June 29, 1946 (Saturday) In Palestine, the British Army oversaw "Operation Agatha", the arrest of 2,700 suspected Jewish terrorists in retaliation of the destruction of 11 bridges two weeks earlier, detaining them at a prison camp at Latrun. The Haganah escalated terror attacks in response, with the King David Hotel bombing taking place the following month. Born: Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer