Clare Hollingworth

Clare Hollingworth was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century". As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border"; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.

10 October 1911

Born on the same birth day (10 October): Alfred Neuland • Amanda Burton • Gavin Newsom • Julie Pomagalski • Luis Cardozo • Michael Giacchino • Toby Smith (rugby union) • Xherdan Shaqiri

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