Notable Historical Events - 1944
1944 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NYC |
Jan 1 |
Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
Jan 1 |
Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army |
Jan 2 |
1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) |
Jan 3 |
World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. |
Jan 4 |
Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department |
Jan 5 |
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. |
Jan 7 |
US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59 |
Jan 10 |
1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila |
Jan 10 |
British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma |
Jan 11 |
Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established |
Jan 12 |
Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh |
Jan 12 |
Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd |
Jan 14 |
Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow |
Jan 15 |
European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
Jan 15 |
General Eisenhower arrives in England |
Jan 15 |
Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die |
Jan 16 |
Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London |
Jan 17 |
Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean |
Jan 18 |
1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts |
Jan 18 |
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. |
Jan 20 |
RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin |
Jan 21 |
447 German bombers attack London |
Jan 21 |
649 British bombers attack Magdeburg |
Jan 22 |
During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy |
Jan 23 |
Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in NYC |
Jan 23 |
Det Red Wings score 15 goals against NY Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0 |
Jan 24 |
Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy |
Jan 27 |
Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed |
Jan 27 |
Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves |
Jan 28 |
683 British bombers attack Berlin |
Jan 28 |
Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh |
Jan 28 |
U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland |
Jan 29 |
285 German bombers attack London |
Jan 29 |
USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched. |
Jan 29 |
World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy. |
Jan 29 |
World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. |
Jan 30 |
US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands |
Jan 30 |
World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. |
Jan 31 |
Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June |
Jan 31 |
U-592 sunk off Ireland |
Jan 31 |
US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll |
Feb 1 |
Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy |
Feb 1 |
US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
Feb 2 |
4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands |
Feb 2 |
Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
Feb 2 |
Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action |
Feb 2 |
Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC |
Feb 3 |
World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. |
Feb 4 |
Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris |
Feb 4 |
US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
Feb 5 |
358 RAF bombers attack Stettin |
Feb 7 |
Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records |
Feb 7 |
Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy |
Feb 8 |
1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin |
Feb 8 |
U-762 sunk off Ireland |
Feb 9 |
U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
Feb 10 |
Belgian resistance fighter and author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
Feb 10 |
U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland |
Feb 11 |
German troops reconquer Aprilia, Italy |
Feb 11 |
U-424 sunk off Ireland |
Feb 12 |
Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race |
Feb 14 |
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java |
Feb 14 |
Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing |
Feb 15 |
891 British bombers attack Berlin |
Feb 15 |
Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy |
Feb 17 |
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22 |
Feb 17 |
US begins night bombing of Truk |
Feb 18 |
Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested |
Feb 18 |
Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall |
Feb 19 |
823 British bombers attack Berlin |
Feb 19 |
U-264 sinks off Ireland |
Feb 20 |
Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers |
Feb 20 |
US takes Eniwetok Island |
Feb 20 |
World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. |
Feb 21 |
"War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only) |
Feb 22 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die |
Feb 23 |
Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia. |
Feb 24 |
Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war |
Feb 25 |
US 1st Army completes invasion plan |
Feb 26 |
1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed |
Feb 29 |
5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death |
Feb 29 |
US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands |
Mar 1 |
Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns |
Mar 1 |
U-358 sinks in Atlantic |
Mar 2 |
16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win |
Mar 2 |
Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy |
Mar 3 |
1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
Mar 4 |
1st US bombing of Berlin |
Mar 4 |
Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
Mar 5 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony |
Mar 6 |
USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin |
Mar 7 |
Japans begins offensive in Burma |
Mar 8 |
US resumes bombing Berlin |
Mar 10 |
U-575 sinks HMS Asphodel |
Mar 11 |
Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested |
Mar 13 |
USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
Mar 15 |
Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing |
Mar 16 |
Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death |
Mar 18 |
Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
Mar 18 |
2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store |
Mar 19 |
Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time" premieres in London |
Mar 20 |
Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16 |
Mar 20 |
Mount Vesuvius, Italy, explodes |
Mar 21 |
Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy |
Mar 22 |
600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin |
Mar 22 |
American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin |
Mar 23 |
Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die |
Mar 23 |
Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives |
Mar 24 |
76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) |
Mar 24 |
811 British bombers attack Berlin |
Mar 24 |
In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians |
Mar 25 |
Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome |
Mar 25 |
RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall was broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffered only a sprained leg. |
Mar 26 |
705 British bombers attack Essen |
Mar 27 |
1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp |
Mar 27 |
2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania |
Mar 27 |
40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo |
Mar 27 |
Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno |
Mar 28 |
6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 |
Mar 28 |
Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking |
Mar 30 |
781 British bombers attack Nuremberg |
Mar 31 |
Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars |
Apr 1 |
Japanese troops conquer Jessami, Eastern India |
Apr 2 |
CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy |
Apr 2 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in NY |
Apr 2 |
Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
Apr 3 |
British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz |
Apr 3 |
US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional |
Apr 4 |
British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
Apr 4 |
De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists |
Apr 4 |
Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000 |
Apr 5 |
140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse |
Apr 5 |
World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. |
Apr 6 |
Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis |
Apr 7 |
General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan |
Apr 9 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae |
Apr 10 |
"Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously |
Apr 10 |
Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis |
Apr 11 |
RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague |
Apr 12 |
Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind" premieres in NYC |
Apr 13 |
South Carolina rejects black suffrage |
Apr 13 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
Apr 13 |
Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Apr 13 |
The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. |
Apr 14 |
1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz |
Apr 14 |
Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 |
Apr 14 |
Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet |
Apr 14 |
Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government |
Apr 18 |
48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4 |
Apr 18 |
Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC |
Apr 19 |
Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra |
Apr 20 |
Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death |
Apr 20 |
NFL legalizes coaching from bench |
Apr 21 |
NFL Chic Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3) |
Apr 22 |
Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea |
Apr 22 |
Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg |
Apr 24 |
1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump" |
Apr 24 |
RAF bombs Munich |
Apr 24 |
United Negro College Fund incorporates |
Apr 25 |
United Negro College Fund incorporates |
Apr 26 |
1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down |
Apr 26 |
Papandreou government in Greece forms |
Apr 27 |
Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0 |
Apr 28 |
Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski |
Apr 28 |
Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats |
Apr 29 |
Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague |
Apr 30 |
NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs |
Apr 30 |
NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time |
May 1 |
Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight |
May 1 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel "Journey in the Dark" |
May 1 |
Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails |
May 2 |
WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast |
May 3 |
"Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway |
May 3 |
Meat rationing ends in US |
May 4 |
"Gaslight", starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released |
May 5 |
Gandhi freed from prison |
May 5 |
Russian offensive against Sebastopol, Crimea |
May 6 |
70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2 |
May 6 |
KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO |
May 7 |
German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia |
May 8 |
33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death |
May 9 |
1st eye bank opens in New York |
May 9 |
Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana |
May 9 |
Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested |
May 9 |
Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness |
May 9 |
Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol |
May 10 |
Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan |
May 10 |
Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal |
May 11 |
Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer |
May 11 |
Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison |
May 12 |
900+ 8th US Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux |
May 12 |
Crimea purged of Nazi troops |
May 12 |
Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat |
May 13 |
70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2 |
May 14 |
91 German bombers harass Bristol |
May 14 |
British troops occupy Kohima |
May 14 |
Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler |
May 15 |
14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz |
May 15 |
Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0 |
May 15 |
Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan |
May 15 |
Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne |
May 16 |
1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz |
May 16 |
Military police attack gypsies |
May 17 |
-18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
May 17 |
Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
May 17 |
General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
May 17 |
Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea |
May 18 |
Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy |
May 18 |
Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans |
May 19 |
240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands |
May 19 |
German defense line in Italy collapsed |
May 20 |
US Communist Party dissolves |
May 21 |
Hitler begins attack on British/US "terror pilots" |
May 23 |
British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy |
May 23 |
Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front |
May 23 |
Operation Buffalo: Allied break out from Anzio bridgehead |
May 23 |
Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941 |
May 24 |
Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists |
May 24 |
Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark |
May 25 |
Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia |
May 27 |
Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) |
May 27 |
Japanese advance in Hangkhou China |
May 27 |
Jean-Paul Sartres' "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris |
May 29 |
British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy |
May 30 |
Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany |
May 31 |
Allied breakthrough in Italy |
Jun 1 |
Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth |
Jun 1 |
Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots |
Jun 2 |
Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth |
Jun 2 |
Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands |
Jun 3 |
76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 |
Jun 3 |
Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution |
Jun 3 |
Nazis pull out of Rome |
Jun 4 |
1st British gliders touch down on French soil for D-Day |
Jun 4 |
U505 becomes the first German submarine captured & boarded on high seas |
Jun 4 |
5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
Jun 4 |
French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
Jun 5 |
1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure |
Jun 5 |
1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day invasion |
Jun 5 |
Allies march into Rome |
Jun 5 |
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies |
Jun 5 |
General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 |
Jun 6 |
82nd Airborne division WWII D-day-landing at Ste Mere Eglise |
Jun 6 |
Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion |
Jun 6 |
Operation Neptune, D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France in WWII |
Jun 6 |
Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
Jun 6 |
Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor |
Jun 6 |
U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje |
Jun 6 |
Alaska Airlines commences operations. |
Jun 7 |
Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen |
Jun 7 |
Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux |
Jun 7 |
Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler |
Jun 8 |
1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy |
Jun 8 |
Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy |
Jun 8 |
Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested |
Jun 8 |
General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully |
Jun 9 |
Russian offensive in Carelia |
Jun 10 |
Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league |
Jun 10 |
Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
Jun 10 |
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. |
Jun 11 |
15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas |
Jun 11 |
1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC |
Jun 11 |
KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail |
Jun 12 |
1st V-1 rocket assault on London |
Jun 12 |
British 12th airborne batallion and the 13th & 18th Hussars attack and capture Bréville |
Jun 12 |
Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully |
Jun 12 |
US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy |
Jun 13 |
German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy |
Jun 13 |
Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks |
Jun 14 |
1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan |
Jun 14 |
General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France |
Jun 15 |
US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific |
Jun 16 |
Iceland adopts constitution |
Jun 16 |
King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy |
Jun 16 |
US bombs Kyushu Japan |
Jun 17 |
-19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
Jun 17 |
Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons |
Jun 17 |
Iceland declares independence from Denmark |
Jun 17 |
Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland |
Jun 17 |
Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London |
Jun 18 |
Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris |
Jun 18 |
U-767 sinks |
Jun 19 |
French troops free Elba |
Jun 19 |
Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot" |
Jun 19 |
Japanese troops conquer Changsha China |
Jun 19 |
World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet |
Jun 20 |
Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
Jun 20 |
Heavy storm hits the Channel |
Jun 20 |
Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz |
Jun 20 |
Soviet forces conquer Wiborg |
Jun 20 |
US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea |
Jun 20 |
US troops occupy Biak |
Jun 21 |
Very heavy bombing on Berlin |
Jun 22 |
British 14th Army frees Imphal Assam |
Jun 22 |
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) |
Jun 22 |
Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn |
Jun 22 |
Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn |
Jun 22 |
Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre. |
Jun 23 |
4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 |
Jun 23 |
Russian offensive in central front sector |
Jun 23 |
Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen |
Jun 25 |
British assault at Caen, Normandy |
Jun 26 |
2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line |
Jun 26 |
Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0 |
Jun 27 |
Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies |
Jun 29 |
German counter attack at Caen |
Jun 29 |
Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead |
Jun 29 |
Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden |
Jun 29 |
Soviet Armies join in Bobroesjk |
Jun 29 |
US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg |
Jun 30 |
Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea |
Jun 30 |
French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands |
Jun 30 |
Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen |
Jun 30 |
World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. |
Jul 1 |
2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs |
Jul 1 |
Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank |
Jul 1 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel |
Jul 1 |
General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy |
Jul 1 |
US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy |
Jul 1 |
Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!" |
Jul 2 |
Field Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt |
Jul 3 |
Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore |
Jul 3 |
US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin |
Jul 4 |
1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy |
Jul 4 |
1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima |
Jul 4 |
Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen |
Jul 4 |
Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber |
Jul 5 |
Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight |
Jul 6 |
170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn |
Jul 6 |
French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC |
Jul 6 |
US General Patton lands in France |
Jul 7 |
RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France |
Jul 7 |
Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan |
Jul 8 |
British troops march into Caen |
Jul 8 |
Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan |
Jul 9 |
In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell |
Jul 9 |
U-740 sinks |
Jul 9 |
World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) |
Jul 10 |
U-821 sinks |
Jul 10 |
"Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan |
Jul 11 |
12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
Jul 11 |
Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States. |
Jul 12 |
Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased |
Jul 12 |
US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle |
Jul 13 |
Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated |
Jul 14 |
Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested |
Jul 14 |
US assault on Coutances Cotentin |
Jul 15 |
Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb |
Jul 16 |
Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row |
Jul 17 |
2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 |
Jul 17 |
Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland |
Jul 18 |
7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen |
Jul 18 |
Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris |
Jul 18 |
Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) |
Jul 18 |
RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne & Berlin |
Jul 18 |
British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland |
Jul 18 |
British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy |
Jul 18 |
Polish troops under Gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy |
Jul 18 |
US troop march into St Lo |
Jul 19 |
1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany |
Jul 19 |
500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity |
Jul 19 |
Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen |
Jul 19 |
Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen |
Jul 19 |
Democratic convention opens in Chicago |
Jul 19 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem |
Jul 19 |
General Bradley flies to England |
Jul 19 |
Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas |
Jul 19 |
NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe |
Jul 19 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann |
Jul 20 |
British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy |
Jul 20 |
Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs |
Jul 20 |
Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre |
Jul 20 |
Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins |
Jul 20 |
Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen |
Jul 20 |
Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau |
Jul 20 |
General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy |
Jul 20 |
Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen |
Jul 20 |
Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack |
Jul 20 |
Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach |
Jul 20 |
US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention |
Jul 20 |
US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen |
Jul 20 |
US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux |
Jul 20 |
US invades Japanese-occupied Guam |
Jul 20 |
Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy) |
Jul 20 |
Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City. |
Jul 20 |
Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg. |
Jul 21 |
British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery |
Jul 21 |
General Koiso becomes premier of Japan |
Jul 21 |
US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders |
Jul 21 |
Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy |
Jul 22 |
Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation |
Jul 23 |
Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
Jul 23 |
Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin |
Jul 23 |
Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland |
Jul 23 |
US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II |
Jul 23 |
US troops occupy Pisa Italy |
Jul 24 |
300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions |
Jul 24 |
Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek |
Jul 24 |
US troops land on Tinian |
Jul 25 |
-26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam |
Jul 25 |
1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) |
Jul 25 |
Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines) |
Jul 25 |
US troop march into Guam |
Jul 25 |
USAAF kills 136 and wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo |
Jul 25 |
World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. |
Jul 26 |
Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam |
Jul 26 |
Russian troops arrive in Weichsel |
Jul 26 |
US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles |
Jul 26 |
The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer"). |
Jul 27 |
1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor) |
Jul 27 |
Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp |
Jul 27 |
US regains possession of Guam from Japanese |
Jul 27 |
US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy |
Jul 28 |
Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
Jul 28 |
US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
Jul 29 |
Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours |
Jul 29 |
Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH |
Jul 29 |
US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches |
Jul 30 |
Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy |
Jul 30 |
US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy |
Jul 31 |
Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz |
Jul 31 |
Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Jul 31 |
US troops occupy Sansapor, New-Guinea |
Aug 1 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
Aug 1 |
Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested |
Aug 1 |
General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army |
Aug 1 |
US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
Aug 1 |
US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
Aug 1 |
Uprising in Warsaw |
Aug 2 |
Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts |
Aug 2 |
Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker |
Aug 2 |
Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
Aug 3 |
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies |
Aug 3 |
General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter |
Aug 3 |
Allied troops under Lt-Gen Joseph Stilwell take Myitkyina, Burma |
Aug 3 |
Tommy Brown, just 16 years & 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers |
Aug 4 |
Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified |
Aug 4 |
British 8th Army reaches suburbs of Florence, Italy |
Aug 5 |
US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne |
Aug 5 |
US troops occupy Vannes, Brittany |
Aug 6 |
All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died |
Aug 6 |
Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
Aug 6 |
Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins |
Aug 6 |
US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
Aug 7 |
Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter |
Aug 7 |
Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation |
Aug 7 |
German counter attack at Avranches fails |
Aug 7 |
July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins |
Aug 7 |
US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest, Brittany |
Aug 7 |
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). |
Aug 8 |
Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
Aug 8 |
US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans |
Aug 9 |
12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw" executed at Camp Vught |
Aug 9 |
Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention |
Aug 9 |
US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans |
Aug 10 |
Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0 |
Aug 10 |
Race riots in Athens Alabama |
Aug 10 |
US recaptures Guam from Japanese |
Aug 10 |
US/French offensive at Alencon |
Aug 11 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
Aug 11 |
French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées |
Aug 11 |
Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz |
Aug 11 |
US air raid on Palembang |
Aug 12 |
Churchill & Tito meet in Naples |
Aug 12 |
Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating |
Aug 12 |
Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. |
Aug 13 |
British 8th Army occupies Florence |
Aug 13 |
Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough |
Aug 13 |
Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio |
Aug 14 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica |
Aug 14 |
Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive |
Aug 14 |
Russian offensive at Weichsel |
Aug 15 |
Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed |
Aug 15 |
German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
Aug 15 |
Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
Aug 15 |
Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
Aug 15 |
US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
Aug 15 |
US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
Aug 16 |
2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy |
Aug 16 |
Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London |
Aug 16 |
US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux |
Aug 16 |
First flight of the Junkers Ju 287. |
Aug 17 |
4th Canadian Armoured division occupiers Trun, Normandy |
Aug 17 |
Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise, Normandy |
Aug 17 |
German field marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
Aug 17 |
Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
Aug 17 |
US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans |
Aug 17 |
US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun |
Aug 17 |
Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game |
Aug 18 |
Chartres freed by US 3rd Army forces during WWII |
Aug 18 |
Paris rail workers strike against Nazi occupiers |
Aug 18 |
US 15th Army Corps reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris |
Aug 18 |
US 20th Army Corps conquers Chartres |
Aug 19 |
Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed |
Aug 19 |
Gen Bradley visits Montgomery |
Aug 19 |
Last Japanese troops driven out of India |
Aug 19 |
Nazis give parts of Paris to Resistance |
Aug 19 |
Paris police strike against nazi occupiers |
Aug 19 |
Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy |
Aug 19 |
US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris |
Aug 19 |
US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois, Normandy |
Aug 20 |
"Anna Lucasta" opens on Broadway |
Aug 20 |
26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash |
Aug 20 |
Gen de Gaulle returns to France |
Aug 20 |
Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev |
Aug 20 |
US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap |
Aug 21 |
Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy |
Aug 21 |
Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway" premieres in NYC |
Aug 21 |
Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrétan/St-Mandé |
Aug 21 |
US 12nd Army Corps occupies Sens |
Aug 22 |
Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd] |
Aug 22 |
Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 23 |
94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt |
Aug 23 |
Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
Aug 23 |
General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris |
Aug 23 |
General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley and Eisenhower |
Aug 23 |
King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu |
Aug 23 |
Romania liberated from Nazi occupation |
Aug 23 |
Sammellager Drancy freed |
Aug 23 |
US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine |
Aug 23 |
US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed |
Aug 24 |
General LeClerc's troops open assault on Paris |
Aug 25 |
France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
Aug 25 |
General De Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation |
Aug 25 |
Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday) |
Aug 25 |
US 12nd Army Corps reaches Troyes |
Aug 26 |
Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed |
Aug 26 |
De Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees |
Aug 26 |
US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris |
Aug 27 |
200 Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg |
Aug 28 |
Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared |
Aug 28 |
US air raid on Ambon |
Aug 29 |
15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees |
Aug 29 |
Anti German rebellion in Slovakia |
Aug 30 |
11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769) |
Aug 30 |
Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta" premieres in NYC |
Aug 30 |
Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania |
Aug 31 |
Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie" Italy |
Aug 31 |
French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris |
Aug 31 |
French troops liberate Bordeaux |
Aug 31 |
Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest |
Sep 1 |
Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns |
Sep 1 |
King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal |
Sep 2 |
Belgium's Emissie bank closes |
Sep 2 |
During WW II, George H W Bush ejects from a burning plane |
Sep 2 |
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz |
Sep 2 |
US leaders meet in Belgium |
Sep 3 |
58th US Women's Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (6-3 8-6) |
Sep 3 |
68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp |
Sep 3 |
Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
Sep 3 |
Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title |
Sep 3 |
French troops liberate Lyon |
Sep 3 |
Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |
Sep 3 |
Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force |
Sep 3 |
Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
Sep 4 |
2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt |
Sep 4 |
64th US Men's Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (6-4 3-6 6-3 6-3) |
Sep 4 |
British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp |
Sep 4 |
Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany |
Sep 4 |
US 1st Army frees Namen |
Sep 5 |
"Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany |
Sep 5 |
5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen |
Sep 5 |
Allies liberate Brussels |
Sep 5 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty |
Sep 5 |
British premier Churchill travels to Scotland |
Sep 5 |
Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard |
Sep 6 |
Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand |
Sep 7 |
SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal, Belgium |
Sep 7 |
Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) |
Sep 8 |
1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp |
Sep 8 |
Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
Sep 9 |
Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
Sep 9 |
Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
Sep 9 |
Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth |
Sep 9 |
US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
Sep 9 |
Very strong hurricane hits Netherland |
Sep 10 |
Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" |
Sep 11 |
FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference |
Sep 11 |
US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany |
Sep 12 |
-16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC |
Sep 12 |
Noorbeek & Mheer freed |
Sep 12 |
US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
Sep 13 |
30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten |
Sep 13 |
Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen |
Sep 13 |
US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
Sep 14 |
6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru |
Sep 14 |
Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed |
Sep 14 |
Hurricane hits New England: 389 die |
Sep 14 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
Sep 14 |
US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
Sep 15 |
British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
Sep 15 |
Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
Sep 15 |
US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
Sep 15 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
Sep 15 |
US troops lands on Palau & Morotai |
Sep 17 |
British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US |
Sep 17 |
Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
Sep 17 |
Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth |
Sep 18 |
British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed |
Sep 18 |
Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) |
Sep 18 |
US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne |
Sep 19 |
Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed |
Sep 19 |
Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). |
Sep 20 |
Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation |
Sep 20 |
Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth |
Sep 21 |
Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders |
Sep 22 |
Boulogne reoccupied by Allies |
Sep 22 |
Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel |
Sep 22 |
US troops land on Ulithi |
Sep 22 |
President Jose P. Laurel declared the country under martial law in 1944 through Proclamation No. 29 |
Sep 23 |
Proclamation No. 30 was issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom |
Sep 26 |
British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) |
Sep 26 |
Soviet forces occupy Estonia |
Sep 27 |
Helmond & Oss Neth liberated |
Sep 28 |
1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise) |
Sep 28 |
Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands |
Sep 28 |
Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder) |
Sep 29 |
Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH |
Sep 29 |
Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia |
Sep 30 |
-Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth |
Sep 30 |
Calais reoccupied by Allies |
Sep 30 |
Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms |
Oct 1 |
Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala |
Oct 1 |
St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant |
Oct 2 |
Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people |
Oct 2 |
US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren |
Oct 3 |
1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland |
Oct 3 |
RAF bombs West Kapelse |
Oct 4 |
British troops land on Greek continent |
Oct 4 |
1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park |
Oct 4 |
St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance |
Oct 5 |
Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC |
Oct 5 |
Kerkrade (Neth) liberated |
Oct 5 |
Suffrage is extended to women in France. |
Oct 6 |
Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel |
Oct 6 |
Canadians free Austria |
Oct 6 |
Royal Ducth Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks U168 at Java |
Oct 6 |
Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia |
Oct 7 |
Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen |
Oct 7 |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin |
Oct 7 |
Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle |
Oct 7 |
Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums |
Oct 8 |
"Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio |
Oct 8 |
Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" premieres |
Oct 9 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin |
Oct 9 |
Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders |
Oct 9 |
German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam |
Oct 9 |
St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series |
Oct 10 |
Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die |
Oct 10 |
US takes Okinawa |
Oct 11 |
Allies bomb sea wall at Veere |
Oct 11 |
Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R |
Oct 11 |
"Laura", starring Gene Tierney, is released |
Oct 12 |
German army retreats from Athens |
Oct 13 |
Riga Latvia freed |
Oct 13 |
US 1st army begins battle of Aachen |
Oct 14 |
Allied troops land in Corfu |
Oct 14 |
British troops march into Athens |
Oct 15 |
The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary. |
Oct 16 |
Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier |
Oct 18 |
Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussels |
Oct 18 |
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II |
Oct 19 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow |
Oct 19 |
Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg |
Oct 19 |
John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC |
Oct 19 |
US Navy says black women can join WAVES |
Oct 19 |
US forces land in Philippines |
Oct 20 |
Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless |
Oct 20 |
Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala |
Oct 20 |
Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade |
Oct 20 |
US 1st army wins battle of Aachen |
Oct 20 |
US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines |
Oct 20 |
US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines |
Oct 21 |
Canadian troops occupy Breskens |
Oct 21 |
During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
Oct 21 |
Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune" premieres in NYC |
Oct 22 |
Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo |
Oct 23 |
First Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam |
Oct 23 |
Gulf of Leyte battle begin |
Oct 23 |
Soviet army invades Hungary |
Oct 23 |
Vice-adm Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks |
Oct 24 |
Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners |
Oct 24 |
US air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks |
Oct 24 |
US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines |
Oct 24 |
US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte |
Oct 25 |
Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink |
Oct 25 |
Battle at Samar-island |
Oct 25 |
Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed |
Oct 25 |
Gas output stopped in Amsterdam |
Oct 27 |
Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation |
Oct 27 |
Tito reaches free Belgrade |
Oct 28 |
Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact |
Oct 29 |
1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands |
Oct 29 |
Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland |
Oct 30 |
Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" premieres in Washinton DC |
Oct 30 |
Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen |
Oct 30 |
Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau |
Oct 30 |
Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk |
Oct 30 |
Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II |
Oct 30 |
Tholen Island freed |
Oct 31 |
Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission |
Nov 1 |
Mary Coyle Chase's "Harvey" premieres in NYC |
Nov 1 |
Zeeuws & Flanders liberated |
Nov 1 |
World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. |