Notable Historical Events - 1943
1943 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to lt-colonel |
Jan 1 |
Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown |
Jan 3 |
1st missing persons telecast (NYC) |
Jan 3 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
Jan 4 |
Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers" |
Jan 5 |
Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II |
Jan 5 |
William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces |
Jan 9 |
Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars |
Jan 10 |
Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad |
Jan 10 |
1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco |
Jan 11 |
US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China |
Jan 12 |
Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal) |
Jan 13 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca |
Jan 13 |
Hitler declares "Total War" |
Jan 13 |
Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov |
Jan 13 |
US infantry captures Galloping Horse Ridge, Guadalcanal |
Jan 14 |
Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game |
Jan 14 |
FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II |
Jan 14 |
Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw |
Jan 15 |
1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught |
Jan 15 |
World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed |
Jan 15 |
1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon |
Jan 16 |
-60°F (-51°C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record) |
Jan 16 |
1st US air raid on Ambon |
Jan 16 |
German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow |
Jan 16 |
Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad |
Jan 17 |
Tin Can Drive Day |
Jan 18 |
Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad |
Jan 18 |
US rations bread & metal - banning presliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts |
Jan 19 |
Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
Jan 19 |
Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily |
Jan 20 |
Lead SD, temp is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16°F |
Jan 20 |
Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian |
Jan 21 |
Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk |
Jan 21 |
Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad |
Jan 21 |
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet |
Jan 22 |
66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
Jan 22 |
Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]- |
Jan 22 |
Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th |
Jan 22 |
Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD |
Jan 23 |
66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
Jan 23 |
British 8th army marches into Tripoli |
Jan 23 |
Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
Jan 23 |
Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured |
Jan 23 |
Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. |
Jan 24 |
Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death |
Jan 24 |
Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau |
Jan 27 |
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) |
Jan 28 |
Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals |
Jan 28 |
Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game |
Jan 29 |
New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal |
Jan 29 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC |
Jan 30 |
6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight |
Jan 30 |
German assault on French in Tunisia |
Jan 30 |
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth |
Jan 30 |
Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to Field Marshal |
Jan 30 |
Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing |
Jan 30 |
USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean |
Jan 31 |
39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton) |
Jan 31 |
Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan |
Jan 31 |
Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad |
Feb 1 |
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
Feb 1 |
Mussert forms pro-Nazi shadow cabinet in Netherlands |
Feb 2 |
Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest |
Feb 2 |
German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad, turning point in Europe during WW II |
Feb 3 |
4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others |
Feb 4 |
Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich |
Feb 5 |
Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt |
Feb 5 |
Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission |
Feb 6 |
1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down |
Feb 6 |
Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade" |
Feb 7 |
Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) |
Feb 8 |
Red Army recaptures Kursk |
Feb 9 |
FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
Feb 9 |
German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
Feb 9 |
Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific |
Feb 9 |
NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears |
Feb 9 |
Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
Feb 10 |
"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination |
Feb 10 |
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
Feb 10 |
Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
Feb 11 |
US General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British General Montgomery not best pleased. |
Feb 11 |
Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Feb 12 |
General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa |
Feb 13 |
German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front |
Feb 13 |
Women's Marine Corps created |
Feb 14 |
German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
Feb 14 |
Soviets recapture Rostov |
Feb 14 |
World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. |
Feb 15 |
Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid |
Feb 16 |
-32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) |
Feb 16 |
British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia |
Feb 16 |
Red army conquers Kharkov |
Feb 16 |
Withdrawing Afrika Korps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa |
Feb 16 |
Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22 |
Feb 16 |
World War II: The USSR reconquers Kharkov. |
Feb 17 |
-19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje |
Feb 17 |
Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews |
Feb 17 |
Gen-major Bradley flies to Wash DC |
Feb 17 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army |
Feb 18 |
1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" |
Feb 18 |
Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis |
Feb 18 |
William D Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies |
Feb 19 |
German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia |
Feb 20 |
Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia |
Feb 20 |
New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico) |
Feb 20 |
Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League |
Feb 20 |
American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. |
Feb 21 |
Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews |
Feb 21 |
German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia |
Feb 22 |
Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. |
Feb 23 |
Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh |
Feb 23 |
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia |
Feb 24 |
Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers |
Feb 24 |
Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II |
Feb 25 |
Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front |
Feb 26 |
German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
Feb 27 |
The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. |
Feb 27 |
The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin |
Feb 28 |
"Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan |
Feb 28 |
63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month |
Mar 1 |
Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided |
Mar 2 |
1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration camp |
Mar 3 |
Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die |
Mar 3 |
F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC |
Mar 3 |
Battle of the Bismarck Sea during WWII: Australian and American airforces devastate Japanese navy convoy |
Mar 4 |
Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
Mar 4 |
15th Academy Awards - "Mrs. Miniver", James Cagney & Greer Garson win |
Mar 5 |
Anti-fascist strikes in Italy |
Mar 5 |
RAF bombs Essen Germany |
Mar 6 |
Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
Mar 6 |
Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers |
Mar 7 |
Major General George Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia |
Mar 8 |
335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production |
Mar 8 |
Limited gambling legalized in Mexico |
Mar 8 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
Mar 8 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn |
Mar 9 |
Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown |
Mar 9 |
Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps |
Mar 11 |
Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands |
Mar 12 |
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
Mar 13 |
Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata) |
Mar 13 |
Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
Mar 13 |
Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) |
Mar 14 |
World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'. |
Mar 15 |
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java |
Mar 15 |
Red Army evacuates Kharkov |
Mar 16 |
Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks |
Mar 17 |
Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks |
Mar 17 |
F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC |
Mar 17 |
Physician Willem J Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, the Netherlands |
Mar 18 |
James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks |
Mar 18 |
Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
Mar 18 |
Agnes Moorehead appears in "Sorry, Wrong Number" on the radio program "Suspense", her most successful appearance |
Mar 19 |
Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks |
Mar 19 |
British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia |
Mar 19 |
Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. |
Mar 19 |
In their third match, Jake LaMotta finally defeats Jimmy Reeves by knocking him out in the sixth round |
Mar 20 |
German U-384 bombed & sinks |
Mar 21 |
Assassination attempt on Hitler fails |
Mar 21 |
Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. |
Mar 22 |
Dutch work week extended to 54 hour |
Mar 22 |
Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium |
Mar 22 |
SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children |
Mar 23 |
German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia |
Mar 25 |
97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration |
Mar 25 |
Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio |
Mar 26 |
Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean |
Mar 26 |
Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal |
Mar 27 |
Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau |
Mar 27 |
Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio |
Mar 27 |
US begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia |
Mar 29 |
Meat( 784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II |
Mar 30 |
5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34 |
Mar 30 |
British 1st army recaptures Sejenane |
Mar 30 |
Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC |
Mar 31 |
US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 |
Apr 3 |
Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested |
Apr 5 |
Allies bomb Mortsel |
Apr 5 |
Japanese troops conquer Indin |
Apr 5 |
Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days |
Apr 6 |
British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II |
Apr 6 |
British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
Apr 6 |
Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested |
Apr 7 |
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Apr 7 |
British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
Apr 7 |
Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid |
Apr 7 |
NFL adopts free substitution rule |
Apr 8 |
Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma |
Apr 8 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
Apr 8 |
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities. |
Apr 10 |
12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis |
Apr 10 |
General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia |
Apr 11 |
Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft |
Apr 12 |
Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa |
Apr 12 |
Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed |
Apr 13 |
Catholic University Nijegen closes |
Apr 13 |
FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial |
Apr 13 |
Nazis discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn |
Apr 14 |
Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis |
Apr 14 |
James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World" premieres in NYC |
Apr 15 |
Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase |
Apr 16 |
40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Neth (85 killed) |
Apr 16 |
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD. |
Apr 17 |
Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul |
Apr 17 |
SS-lt-general Jurgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw |
Apr 19 |
47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8 |
Apr 19 |
SS-lt-gen Jurgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw |
Apr 19 |
Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time. |
Apr 20 |
Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg |
Apr 22 |
German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
Apr 22 |
RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea |
Apr 23 |
British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta |
Apr 25 |
The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. |
Apr 27 |
Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland |
Apr 27 |
Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London |
Apr 28 |
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning" |
Apr 28 |
German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
Apr 28 |
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
Apr 29 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis |
Apr 29 |
Noel Coward's "Present Laughter" premieres in London |
Apr 29 |
US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia |
Apr 30 |
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms |
Apr 30 |
Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry |
Apr 30 |
Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed" premieres in London |
May 1 |
1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam |
May 1 |
69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 |
May 1 |
Food rationing begins in US |
May 1 |
German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes |
May 1 |
German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta |
May 1 |
Rauter signs unofficial death sentence |
May 2 |
German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) |
May 3 |
Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed |
May 3 |
US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia |
May 4 |
NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier |
May 5 |
Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System |
May 6 |
British 1st army opens assault on Tunis |
May 7 |
British 11th Hussars occupy Tunis |
May 7 |
Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps |
May 7 |
Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched |
May 7 |
US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia |
May 7 |
US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia |
May 8 |
69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4 |
May 8 |
Admiral Cunningham of Britsh fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass" |
May 9 |
5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
May 9 |
Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens |
May 11 |
Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders |
May 11 |
US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured) |
May 12 |
Axis forces in North Africa surrender |
May 12 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in USA |
May 12 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
May 13 |
German & Italian forces in Africa surrender |
May 13 |
German occupiers confiscate all radios |
May 14 |
Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine. |
May 15 |
Halifax bombers sinks U-463 |
May 15 |
Warsaw ghetto uprising ends in its destruction |
May 15 |
Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). |
May 16 |
-17th] Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid; 617 Squadron RAF bombs Möhne & Eder dams (Ruhr valley) with bouncing bombs |
May 16 |
German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
May 16 |
Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting |
May 17 |
The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. |
May 17 |
World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. |
May 18 |
Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea |
May 19 |
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) |
May 19 |
Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan |
May 20 |
French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia |
May 21 |
Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators |
May 22 |
1st jet fighter is tested |
May 22 |
RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" |
May 22 |
Stalin disbands Komintern |
May 23 |
-24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund |
May 23 |
Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus |
May 24 |
Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean |
May 24 |
U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje |
May 25 |
Riot at Mobile, Alabama, shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers |
May 25 |
Trident conference in Washington, DC (operation plan '43 against Japan) |
May 26 |
Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit US |
May 26 |
Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam |
May 26 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa |
May 27 |
French resistance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris |
May 27 |
US forbids racial discrimination in war industry |
May 28 |
British miliitary reaches Tito |
May 29 |
Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) |
May 29 |
Meat & cheese rationed in US |
May 30 |
French general Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
May 30 |
US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians |
May 31 |
"Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio |
May 31 |
Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters |
Jun 1 |
Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die |
Jun 1 |
Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game |
Jun 2 |
99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy) |
Jun 2 |
German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins |
Jun 3 |
United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms |
Jun 3 |
A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. |
Jun 4 |
Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Peron |
Jun 4 |
Race riots in LA |
Jun 4 |
St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter |
Jun 5 |
75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2 |
Jun 5 |
German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
Jun 5 |
President Laurel was shot around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at the Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong |
Jun 9 |
"Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized |
Jun 10 |
FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime |
Jun 10 |
FDR signs withholding tax bill into law |
Jun 11 |
British invades Pantelleria (a tiny island south of Sicily) |
Jun 11 |
Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland |
Jun 12 |
Himmler orders extermination of all Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland |
Jun 15 |
Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms |
Jun 16 |
Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die) |
Jun 17 |
Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs |
Jun 18 |
SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau |
Jun 19 |
"Shiekh Of Araby" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19 |
Jun 19 |
NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5) |
Jun 19 |
Race riot in Beaumont Texas |
Jun 20 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded |
Jun 20 |
Detroit race riot kills 35 |
Jun 20 |
German round up Jews in Amsterdam |
Jun 20 |
National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
Jun 20 |
New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia) |
Jun 20 |
Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY |
Jun 21 |
Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead |
Jun 22 |
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters |
Jun 23 |
Dutch artsens protest against nazis |
Jun 23 |
RAF discovers Werner von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde |
Jun 24 |
Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg |
Jun 25 |
Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished |
Jun 25 |
Racial unrest in Detroit |
Jun 25 |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians |
Jun 27 |
Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m) |
Jun 27 |
Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5) |
Jun 29 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ) |
Jun 29 |
US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea |
Jun 29 |
Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe |
Jun 30 |
Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping) |
Jul 1 |
"Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks |
Jul 2 |
Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126 |
Jul 2 |
Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0 |
Jul 2 |
Lt Charles Hall becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane |
Jul 3 |
Liberator bombers sinks U-628 |
Jul 5 |
Battle of Gulf of Kula |
Jul 5 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks) |
Jul 5 |
Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye |
Jul 5 |
US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily |
Jul 6 |
2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed |
Jul 6 |
US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched |
Jul 7 |
-10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java |
Jul 7 |
3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova |
Jul 7 |
Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk |
Jul 7 |
Liberator bombers sinks U-517 |
Jul 7 |
U-951 sunk |
Jul 8 |
4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve |
Jul 8 |
British air raid sinks U-232 |
Jul 8 |
NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler |
Jul 8 |
US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia |
Jul 9 |
5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje |
Jul 9 |
British air raid sinks U-435 |
Jul 10 |
6th day of battle at Kursk |
Jul 10 |
US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky) |
Jul 11 |
7th day of battle at Kursk |
Jul 11 |
Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armoured division in Sicily |
Jul 11 |
US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily |
Jul 11 |
US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
Jul 11 |
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia. |
Jul 12 |
Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) |
Jul 12 |
National Committee Freies Deutschland forms |
Jul 12 |
Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker |
Jul 12 |
Russian offensive at Orel |
Jul 12 |
WWII: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles |
Jul 13 |
11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
Jul 13 |
Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany |
Jul 17 |
RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde |
Jul 18 |
British assault on Catania Sicily |
Jul 18 |
Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6 |
Jul 19 |
500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II |
Jul 20 |
US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island |
Jul 22 |
US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily |
Jul 23 |
Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) |
Jul 23 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
Jul 24 |
RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) |
Jul 25 |
1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer |
Jul 25 |
Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on authority King Victor Emmanuel II |
Jul 25 |
Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl |
Jul 25 |
RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam |
Jul 26 |
120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record) |
Jul 26 |
Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome |
Jul 27 |
772 British bombers attack Hamburg |
Jul 28 |
Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns |
Jul 28 |
Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US |
Jul 28 |
World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. |
Jul 29 |
1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg |
Jul 29 |
Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam |
Jul 30 |
Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) |
Jul 30 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano |
Jul 31 |
Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
Aug 1 |
Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw |
Aug 1 |
Race riot in Harlem NYC |
Aug 1 |
Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383 |
Aug 2 |
Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka |
Aug 2 |
Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands |
Aug 2 |
RAF bombs Hamburg |
Aug 2 |
Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106 |
Aug 2 |
Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) |
Aug 3 |
Gen Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice |
Aug 3 |
Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire |
Aug 4 |
British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada |
Aug 4 |
Russian units reach suburbs of Orel |
Aug 4 |
USAAF bombs Germans in Troina |
Aug 5 |
Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarter |
Aug 5 |
Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod |
Aug 5 |
World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky. |
Aug 6 |
US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
Aug 7 |
Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
Aug 8 |
Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec |
Aug 8 |
US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily |
Aug 8 |
Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland |
Aug 9 |
Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei" premieres in Zurich |
Aug 10 |
Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali |
Aug 10 |
Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly" |
Aug 10 |
Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots |
Aug 11 |
Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov |
Aug 11 |
Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres |
Aug 11 |
US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
Aug 12 |
Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge. |
Aug 13 |
Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
Aug 14 |
-Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean |
Aug 14 |
1st allied air raid on Borneo |
Aug 14 |
US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina |
Aug 15 |
Allies land on Kiska Aleutians |
Aug 16 |
1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) |
Aug 16 |
Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler |
Aug 17 |
498 British bombers attack Peenemunde |
Aug 17 |
Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies |
Aug 17 |
US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt |
Aug 18 |
Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants |
Aug 18 |
Final convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz |
Aug 18 |
Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia |
Aug 19 |
Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle |
Aug 19 |
US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen |
Aug 21 |
Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington |
Aug 21 |
Japan leaves Aleutian Islands |
Aug 22 |
Soviet troops free Karkov |
Aug 23 |
Red army recaptures Charkow during WWII |
Aug 24 |
Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game |
Aug 25 |
10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471) |
Aug 25 |
German occupiers impose 72-hour work week |
Aug 25 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia |
Aug 25 |
Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka |
Aug 25 |
US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II |
Aug 28 |
Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers |
Aug 28 |
Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso |
Aug 29 |
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany |
Aug 31 |
1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island |
Aug 31 |
Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo |
Sep 3 |
British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina) |
Sep 3 |
General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily |
Sep 4 |
British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy |
Sep 5 |
57th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (6-3 5-7 6-3) |
Sep 5 |
US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea |
Sep 6 |
"Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 |
Sep 6 |
63rd US Men's Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (6-3 6-8 10-8 6-0) |
Sep 6 |
Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's |
Sep 7 |
987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
Sep 7 |
Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston, Texas) |
Sep 8 |
Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII |
Sep 8 |
Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily |
Sep 8 |
NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game |
Sep 9 |
15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
Sep 9 |
Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick |
Sep 9 |
Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
Sep 9 |
US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
Sep 10 |
British 8th army occupies Tarente |
Sep 10 |
German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City |
Sep 10 |
Italian fleet anchors at Malta |
Sep 10 |
Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London |
Sep 11 |
Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno |
Sep 11 |
Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated |
Sep 11 |
Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
Sep 11 |
US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea |
Sep 12 |
Free French lands on Corsica |
Sep 12 |
Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso |
Sep 13 |
Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
Sep 13 |
German counter attack at Salerno |
Sep 13 |
Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres |
Sep 13 |
The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. |
Sep 14 |
Yanks clinch pennant #14 |
Sep 15 |
Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy |
Sep 15 |
Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens |
Sep 15 |
Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens |
Sep 16 |
Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno |
Sep 16 |
Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny |
Sep 17 |
Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station |
Sep 17 |
Red Army recaptures Brjansk |
Sep 17 |
World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis. |
Sep 18 |
Cardinals clinch NL pennant |
Sep 18 |
Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) |
Sep 19 |
Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record |
Sep 19 |
Liberator bombers sinks U-341 |
Sep 20 |
Liberator bomber sinks U-338 |
Sep 21 |
Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands |
Sep 21 |
Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named |
Sep 21 |
Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov |
Sep 21 |
Soviet forces reach Dnjepr |
Sep 22 |
British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz |
Sep 22 |
Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed & sinks |
Sep 22 |
Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229 |
Sep 24 |
Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk |
Sep 25 |
Russian troops liberate Smolensk |
Sep 27 |
Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples |
Sep 27 |
Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter |
Sep 29 |
1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel |
Sep 29 |
Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice |
Sep 29 |
German riots at Amsterdam Jews |
Sep 29 |
Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug |
Sep 30 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit |
Oct 1 |
Allied forces captured Naples during WW II |
Oct 1 |
Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow |
Oct 1 |
Germans attack Jews in Denmark |
Oct 1 |
1st King's Dragoon Guards (Royal Amoured Corps) liberates suburbs of Naples |
Oct 2 |
Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island |
Oct 2 |
Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6 |
Oct 3 |
British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy |
Oct 3 |
Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland |
Oct 4 |
Corsica freed by Free French |
Oct 4 |
German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) |
Oct 5 |
US air raid on Wake |
Oct 6 |
Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island |
Oct 6 |
Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution" |
Oct 7 |
Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC |
Oct 8 |
Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
Oct 10 |
Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
Oct 10 |
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths |
Oct 11 |
NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series |
Oct 12 |
US bombs Rabaul, New Britain |
Oct 13 |
Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany |
Oct 14 |
400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland |
Oct 14 |
Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel) |
Oct 14 |
Outbreak attempt in Sobibor concentration camp |
Oct 14 |
US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt |
Oct 16 |
Anti Jewish riot in Rome |
Oct 16 |
Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system |
Oct 16 |
Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz |
Oct 16 |
US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol |
Oct 17 |
Liberators sink U-540 & U-631 |
Oct 18 |
US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island |
Oct 19 |
Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow |
Oct 19 |
Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert |
Oct 19 |
Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY) |
Oct 19 |
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. |
Oct 23 |
First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau |
Oct 23 |
Burma railway opens |
Oct 24 |
Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting |
Oct 25 |
Burma railroad completed & opens |
Oct 26 |
World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". |
Oct 28 |
U-220 sinks |
Oct 29 |
Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 |
Oct 30 |
Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN |
Oct 30 |
Soviet forces under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin commenced offensive on the 4th Ukranian Front |
Oct 31 |
Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10) |
Oct 31 |
World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception. |
Nov 1 |
Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area |
Nov 1 |
US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
Nov 2 |
Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed |
Nov 3 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
Nov 3 |
P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland |
Nov 5 |
-6] Vatican bombed |
Nov 6 |
Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula |
Nov 6 |
Soviet forces reconquer Kiev |
Nov 6 |
Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" |
Nov 7 |
Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL |
Nov 8 |
France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate |
Nov 11 |
Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP |
Nov 11 |
US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea |
Nov 12 |
Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands |
Nov 14 |
Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7) |
Nov 14 |
J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN |
Nov 16 |
World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. |
Nov 18 |
First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated |
Nov 18 |
444 British bombers attack Berlin |
Nov 18 |
U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Nov 19 |
U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Nov 20 |
U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Nov 20 |
US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island |
Nov 21 |
7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany |
Nov 22 |
FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan |
Nov 22 |
France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government |
Nov 22 |
RAF begins air bombing of Berlin |
Nov 22 |
US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island |
Nov 23 |
1st printing of illegal "Warheid" |
Nov 23 |
British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation |
Nov 23 |
US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japanese |
Nov 23 |
Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team |
Nov 25 |
U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Nov 27 |
31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14 |
Nov 27 |
Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin) |
Nov 28 |
FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy |
Nov 29 |
Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia |
Nov 29 |
U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Nov 29 |
US aircraft carrier Hornet launched |
Dec 1 |
FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) |
Dec 2 |
1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp |
Dec 3 |
9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB) |
Dec 3 |
Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins |
Dec 3 |
Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres |
Dec 4 |
-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu |
Dec 4 |
Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes |
Dec 4 |
Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar |
Dec 5 |
NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves |
Dec 7 |
Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
Dec 8 |
John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC |
Dec 10 |
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
Dec 13 |
150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol |
Dec 16 |
"Tamiami Champion" (New York to Florida) trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200 |
Dec 17 |
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Dec 19 |
Military coup in Bolivia |
Dec 20 |
"Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem |
Dec 22 |
Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core |
Dec 23 |
1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY |
Dec 23 |
Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day |
Dec 24 |
FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces |
Dec 24 |
Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines" premieres in London |
Dec 26 |
British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst |
Dec 26 |
Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
Dec 26 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter |
Dec 27 |
France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government |
Dec 27 |
German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea |
Dec 27 |
Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith |
Dec 28 |
All Kalmyk inhabitants of of the Russian Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die on route |
Dec 30 |
Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash |
Dec 30 |
Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. |
Dec 31 |
NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater |
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