Notable Historical Events - 1942
1942 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Rose Bowl football match played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat - Oregon State 20, Duke University 16 |
Jan 1 |
US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis |
Jan 2 |
WWII: 28 nations at war with Axis powers, pledge no separate peace deals |
Jan 2 |
German troops in Bardia surrender |
Jan 2 |
Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
Jan 2 |
The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey. |
Jan 3 |
American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms |
Jan 4 |
NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24 |
Jan 4 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida |
Jan 4 |
Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame |
Jan 5 |
55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
Jan 6 |
Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia |
Jan 6 |
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper"). |
Jan 7 |
WW II siege of Bataan starts |
Jan 8 |
British Air Marshal Richard Peirse replaced as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command |
Jan 9 |
Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 9 |
US Joint Chiefs of Staff created |
Jan 10 |
Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies |
Jan 11 |
-23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record) |
Jan 11 |
Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
Jan 12 |
British troops reconquer Sollum |
Jan 12 |
Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender |
Jan 12 |
National War Labor Board created |
Jan 13 |
Allied Conference on war trials |
Jan 13 |
German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast |
Jan 13 |
Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies |
Jan 13 |
Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration |
Jan 13 |
World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. |
Jan 14 |
Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo |
Jan 15 |
Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II |
Jan 15 |
FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II |
Jan 16 |
William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army |
Jan 18 |
Nazis arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman |
Jan 19 |
Japanese forces invade Burma |
Jan 19 |
Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers |
Jan 20 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
Jan 20 |
Japanese invade Burma |
Jan 20 |
Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews |
Jan 21 |
Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal |
Jan 21 |
Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" |
Jan 21 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
Jan 21 |
Tito's partisans occupy Foca |
Jan 22 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
Jan 22 |
Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06) |
Jan 23 |
Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain |
Jan 23 |
Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th army |
Jan 24 |
Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC |
Jan 25 |
Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus |
Jan 26 |
1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland |
Jan 26 |
Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Marshal Rommel |
Jan 27 |
-19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850 |
Jan 28 |
Soviet troops under General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine |
Jan 28 |
German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
Jan 29 |
1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC |
Jan 29 |
German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya |
Jan 29 |
Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) |
Jan 30 |
Japanese troops land on Ambon |
Jan 31 |
62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton) |
Feb 1 |
2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms |
Feb 2 |
LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans |
Feb 2 |
US auto factories switch from commercial to war production |
Feb 3 |
1st Japanese air raid on Java |
Feb 3 |
Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942 |
Feb 4 |
Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II |
Feb 5 |
"Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City |
Feb 5 |
Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore |
Feb 7 |
1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") |
Feb 8 |
Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII) |
Feb 8 |
Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles |
Feb 8 |
Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort |
Feb 9 |
Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US |
Feb 9 |
Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
Feb 9 |
Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" |
Feb 10 |
Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" |
Feb 11 |
"Archie" comic book debuts |
Feb 12 |
3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
Feb 13 |
Hitler's Operation Sealion (invasion of England) cancelled |
Feb 14 |
Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang, Sumatra |
Feb 14 |
Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
Feb 14 |
WWII: Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore. |
Feb 15 |
German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery |
Feb 15 |
Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
Feb 15 |
WWII: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese |
Feb 16 |
German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery |
Feb 18 |
Japanese troop land on Bali |
Feb 19 |
About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin |
Feb 19 |
Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ |
Feb 19 |
Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber |
Feb 19 |
FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans |
Feb 19 |
Japanese troops land on Timor |
Feb 19 |
Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" |
Feb 19 |
NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games |
Feb 20 |
Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace |
Feb 21 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
Feb 21 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht |
Feb 22 |
World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse |
Feb 23 |
Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif |
Feb 24 |
Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) |
Feb 24 |
The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day. |
Feb 26 |
German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb |
Feb 26 |
Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies |
Feb 26 |
WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" |
Feb 26 |
Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" |
Feb 27 |
1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Feb 27 |
Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese |
Feb 27 |
J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun |
Feb 28 |
1st weapon drop on Netherlands |
Feb 28 |
Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies |
Feb 28 |
Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit |
Mar 1 |
3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat |
Mar 1 |
Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough |
Mar 1 |
J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago |
Mar 1 |
Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
Mar 1 |
Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews |
Mar 1 |
Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
Mar 2 |
14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fontaine win |
Mar 2 |
Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon |
Mar 3 |
1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber |
Mar 5 |
Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
Mar 5 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia |
Mar 5 |
Japanese troop march into Batavia |
Mar 7 |
15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta |
Mar 7 |
1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee |
Mar 8 |
Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma |
Mar 8 |
KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies |
Mar 9 |
Construction of the Alaska Highway began |
Mar 11 |
1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
Mar 11 |
Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia |
Mar 11 |
Japanese troop land on North Sumatra |
Mar 12 |
British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
Mar 13 |
Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army |
Mar 17 |
Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported |
Mar 17 |
Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander |
Mar 18 |
Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters |
Mar 18 |
2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out |
Mar 19 |
FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty |
Mar 19 |
Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago |
Mar 20 |
Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia |
Mar 20 |
Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return" |
Mar 20 |
Major German assault on Malta |
Mar 21 |
Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk |
Mar 21 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
Mar 22 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
Mar 23 |
2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported |
Mar 23 |
Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean |
Mar 23 |
US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers |
Mar 25 |
700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp |
Mar 26 |
1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps |
Mar 26 |
1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec |
Mar 26 |
Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pa, kills 21 |
Mar 26 |
German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel |
Mar 27 |
-28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire |
Mar 27 |
Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward |
Mar 27 |
Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC) |
Mar 28 |
-29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck |
Mar 28 |
4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 |
Mar 28 |
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire |
Mar 29 |
British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea |
Mar 29 |
British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die |
Mar 29 |
German submarine U-585 sinks |
Mar 29 |
The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
Mar 30 |
1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau |
Mar 30 |
SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp |
Apr 1 |
Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor |
Apr 1 |
Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 |
Apr 2 |
USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco |
Apr 7 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
Apr 8 |
A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire" premieres in NYC |
Apr 9 |
Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan |
Apr 10 |
Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland |
Apr 11 |
Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized |
Apr 12 |
9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 12 |
Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan |
Apr 14 |
Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast |
Apr 15 |
George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta |
Apr 16 |
Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship |
Apr 17 |
12 Lancasters bomb MAN factory in Augsburg |
Apr 17 |
Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp |
Apr 17 |
POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein. |
Apr 18 |
"Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts |
Apr 18 |
James Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities |
Apr 18 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 19 |
46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2 |
Apr 20 |
German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach |
Apr 20 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
Apr 23 |
4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins |
Apr 23 |
Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
Apr 24 |
Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
Apr 25 |
Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
Apr 26 |
Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria |
Apr 26 |
Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
Apr 27 |
Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars |
Apr 27 |
Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 |
Apr 28 |
"WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll |
Apr 28 |
Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East Coast |
Apr 29 |
Japanese troop march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road |
Apr 29 |
Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France |
Apr 30 |
1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi |
May 1 |
Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" |
May 2 |
68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4 |
May 2 |
Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma |
May 3 |
Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands during WWII |
May 3 |
German Luftwaffe bombs Exeter, UK during WWII |
May 3 |
Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands |
May 3 |
Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star |
May 4 |
Battle of Coral Sea begins in the Pacific (1st sea battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces |
May 4 |
Food 1st rationed in US |
May 4 |
German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) |
May 5 |
British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar |
May 5 |
US begins rationing sugar during WW II |
May 6 |
Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies |
May 7 |
Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion |
May 7 |
Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed |
May 8 |
Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea |
May 8 |
German summer offensive opens in Crimea |
May 8 |
1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund |
May 9 |
68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 |
May 10 |
World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. |
May 11 |
Japanese troops conquer Kalewa |
May 11 |
William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. |
May 12 |
1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz |
May 12 |
David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine |
May 12 |
Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River |
May 12 |
Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943 |
May 13 |
Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight |
May 13 |
Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game |
May 14 |
US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms |
May 15 |
Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States) |
May 15 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrest 2,000 Dutch officers |
May 16 |
1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma |
May 17 |
Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler |
May 18 |
NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II |
May 19 |
Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner) |
May 20 |
US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve |
May 21 |
Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia |
May 22 |
Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan |
May 22 |
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. |
May 26 |
Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London |
May 26 |
Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star |
May 26 |
Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: Afrika Korps vs British army |
May 27 |
Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor |
May 27 |
Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered |
May 27 |
Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
May 27 |
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" is shot & mortally wounded in Prague in in Operation Anthropoid |
May 28 |
1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich |
May 29 |
Bing Crosby records "White Christmas", greatest selling record to date |
May 30 |
1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II |
May 30 |
Reichsfuehrer Herman Himmler arrives in Prague |
May 30 |
Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1 |
May 30 |
US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor |
May 31 |
25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ |
May 31 |
Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury |
Jun 2 |
Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator |
Jun 4 |
Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II |
Jun 4 |
Capitol Record Co opens for business |
Jun 5 |
British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie |
Jun 5 |
Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 |
Jun 5 |
USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania |
Jun 6 |
1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray) |
Jun 6 |
74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 |
Jun 6 |
Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway |
Jun 6 |
Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians |
Jun 7 |
USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island |
Jun 7 |
Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan |
Jun 7 |
Germany Armys march into Sebastopol |
Jun 7 |
Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands |
Jun 8 |
Bing Cosby records "Silent Night" |
Jun 9 |
Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government |
Jun 9 |
German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe |
Jun 9 |
Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, and Hitler's order was given to "teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility". |
Jun 11 |
German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
Jun 11 |
US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II |
Jun 12 |
Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam) |
Jun 12 |
Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples |
Jun 12 |
Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City |
Jun 13 |
1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km |
Jun 13 |
FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head |
Jun 13 |
Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island |
Jun 13 |
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed |
Jun 13 |
The United States opens its Office of War Information. |
Jun 14 |
1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct |
Jun 14 |
Anne Frank begins her diary |
Jun 14 |
French government of Reynaud resigns |
Jun 14 |
Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job |
Jun 18 |
Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy |
Jun 18 |
Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m |
Jun 19 |
Paul Waner is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits |
Jun 20 |
Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews |
Jun 20 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
Jun 21 |
129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record) |
Jun 21 |
President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC |
Jun 21 |
Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
Jun 21 |
Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) |
Jun 22 |
Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon |
Jun 22 |
Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms |
Jun 23 |
World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. |
Jun 24 |
US Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered |
Jun 24 |
Africa Korps invades Egypt |
Jun 25 |
British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
Jun 25 |
British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London |
Jun 25 |
Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe |
Jun 26 |
German assault on British at Mersa Matruh |
Jun 27 |
FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island |
Jun 27 |
PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk |
Jun 28 |
Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj |
Jun 28 |
Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY) |
Jun 29 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony premieres |
Jun 30 |
144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month |
Jun 30 |
Col-gen Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine |
Jun 30 |
US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation |
Jun 30 |
US bombs Celebes & Timor |
Jul 1 |
German troops conquer Sebastopol |
Jul 3 |
German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea |
Jul 3 |
Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock's headquarters in Ukraine |
Jul 4 |
1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) |
Jul 4 |
US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins |
Jul 5 |
1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11 |
Jul 5 |
Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada |
Jul 6 |
10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York |
Jul 6 |
Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam |
Jul 6 |
Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj |
Jul 7 |
Germany troop march into Woronezj |
Jul 7 |
Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0 |
Jul 10 |
Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp |
Jul 10 |
Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union |
Jul 13 |
5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis |
Jul 13 |
German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages |
Jul 13 |
SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland |
Jul 14 |
1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork |
Jul 14 |
Riots against Jews in Amsterdam |
Jul 15 |
1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz |
Jul 15 |
Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps" |
Jul 16 |
French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
Jul 16 |
Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp |
Jul 17 |
3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 |
Jul 17 |
Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record) |
Jul 17 |
Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Jul 18 |
1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens |
Jul 18 |
Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time. |
Jul 19 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA |
Jul 19 |
German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague |
Jul 20 |
1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training |
Jul 20 |
Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8 |
Jul 20 |
Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress |
Jul 20 |
Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover |
Jul 21 |
8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va |
Jul 22 |
4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks |
Jul 22 |
Gasoline rationing using coupons begins |
Jul 22 |
Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp |
Jul 23 |
German troops conquer Rostow |
Jul 23 |
Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad |
Jul 23 |
World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins. |
Jul 24 |
Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army" premieres in NYC |
Jul 25 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
Jul 25 |
German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
Jul 26 |
RAF bombs Hamburg |
Jul 26 |
RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism |
Jul 28 |
Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto |
Jul 28 |
Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland |
Jul 29 |
Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd |
Jul 30 |
FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) |
Jul 30 |
German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
Jul 30 |
German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands |
Jul 31 |
German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
Jul 31 |
U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton |
Aug 1 |
Deurne soccer team forms |
Aug 1 |
German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
Aug 1 |
Race riots in Harlem, New York |
Aug 2 |
250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp |
Aug 2 |
Col-Gen Hoth' Panzer army reaches Kotelnikovo |
Aug 4 |
1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz |
Aug 4 |
British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
Aug 4 |
Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev |
Aug 4 |
German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
Aug 5 |
British government cancels agreement of Munich |
Aug 5 |
German troops cross Kuban River |
Aug 6 |
-8] Riots by Dutch Jews |
Aug 6 |
Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210 |
Aug 6 |
Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commander |
Aug 6 |
Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" |
Aug 7 |
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is |
Aug 7 |
Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
Aug 7 |
Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 8 |
"Monty" appointed commander of British 8th Army at Alamein |
Aug 8 |
6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washngton, DC |
Aug 8 |
British corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379 |
Aug 8 |
Russian anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko |
Aug 9 |
200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland |
Aug 9 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad |
Aug 9 |
Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island |
Aug 9 |
Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress |
Aug 9 |
CBS radio broadcasts the debut of "Our Secret Weapon." |
Aug 10 |
Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa |
Aug 11 |
- Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland |
Aug 11 |
999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium |
Aug 11 |
British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks |
Aug 11 |
Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar |
Aug 12 |
British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin |
Aug 12 |
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
Aug 12 |
Lt General Bernard Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
Aug 14 |
Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
Aug 15 |
5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel |
Aug 16 |
British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
Aug 17 |
Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on USS Hornet |
Aug 17 |
Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 17 |
US bombers 8th Air Force stage 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France |
Aug 18 |
Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese |
Aug 19 |
-20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab |
Aug 19 |
WWI: Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France |
Aug 19 |
WWII: General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad |
Aug 20 |
Dim-out regulations implemented in SF |
Aug 21 |
Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus |
Aug 21 |
Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 21 |
World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus. |
Aug 22 |
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
Aug 23 |
1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal |
Aug 23 |
Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) |
Aug 23 |
British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo |
Aug 23 |
Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief |
Aug 23 |
World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky. |
Aug 24 |
Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy |
Aug 24 |
Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 25 |
SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht |
Aug 26 |
7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France |
Aug 26 |
Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay |
Aug 26 |
Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow |
Aug 26 |
Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 27 |
Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
Aug 28 |
9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100) |
Aug 28 |
Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2) |
Aug 28 |
Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Aug 30 |
Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg |
Aug 31 |
Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault |
Aug 31 |
U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton) |
Sep 1 |
US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans |
Sep 1 |
German troops land on Taman peninsula |
Sep 2 |
German troops enter Stalingrad |
Sep 4 |
Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Sep 5 |
Battle at Alam Halfa ends |
Sep 5 |
British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen |
Sep 6 |
56th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
Sep 6 |
Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
Sep 7 |
62nd US Men's Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (8-6 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-2) |
Sep 7 |
German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle |
Sep 7 |
Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Sep 7 |
First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. |
Sep 9 |
1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes |
Sep 9 |
Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia |
Sep 10 |
British troops lands on Madagascar |
Sep 10 |
RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf |
Sep 11 |
Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Sep 12 |
Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal |
Sep 12 |
Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes |
Sep 13 |
Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
Sep 13 |
Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning |
Sep 13 |
German forces attack Stalingrad |
Sep 14 |
Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
Sep 14 |
German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
Sep 14 |
Yanks clinch pennant #13 |
Sep 15 |
US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal |
Sep 16 |
Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled |
Sep 18 |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service |
Sep 18 |
The 'extermination asocials through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice |
Sep 20 |
Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m |
Sep 21 |
116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris |
Sep 21 |
Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Sep 22 |
Meulenberg robs of church bells |
Sep 23 |
Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad |
Sep 23 |
Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Sep 23 |
The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb. |
Sep 27 |
Heavy German assault in Stalingrad |
Sep 27 |
NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down |
Sep 27 |
Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer) |
Sep 27 |
St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season |
Sep 28 |
Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad |
Sep 28 |
NY Americans NHL team folded |
Sep 29 |
32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
Sep 29 |
French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich |
Sep 30 |
98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) |
Sep 30 |
Admiral Nimitz's B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map |
Sep 30 |
SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period |
Oct 1 |
Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight |
Oct 1 |
Little Golden Books (children's books) begins publishing |
Oct 2 |
"Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 |
Oct 3 |
FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization |
Oct 3 |
Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) |
Oct 3 |
NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 & suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season |
Oct 4 |
German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad |
Oct 5 |
5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred |
Oct 5 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series |
Oct 6 |
Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram |
Oct 7 |
1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad |
Oct 7 |
Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth) |
Oct 7 |
Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC |
Oct 7 |
US & British government announce establishment of United Nations |
Oct 7 |
Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ |
Oct 8 |
Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) |
Oct 8 |
Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show |
Oct 9 |
Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy. |
Oct 10 |
1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp |
Oct 11 |
-Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal |
Oct 12 |
Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division |
Oct 12 |
US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance |
Oct 14 |
Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution |
Oct 14 |
German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed |
Oct 14 |
Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
Oct 15 |
German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die |
Oct 16 |
Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC |
Oct 16 |
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India |
Oct 16 |
Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services |
Oct 18 |
Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed |
Oct 20 |
"Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations |
Oct 22 |
1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland |
Oct 22 |
US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria |
Oct 23 |
First ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk |
Oct 23 |
During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt |
Oct 23 |
German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad |
Oct 23 |
All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii"). |
Oct 24 |
Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry |
Oct 25 |
3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive |
Oct 25 |
Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins |
Oct 25 |
Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
Oct 26 |
Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
Oct 26 |
Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough |
Oct 26 |
Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes |
Oct 27 |
5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance |
Oct 27 |
US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz |
Oct 28 |
6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery |
Oct 28 |
Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) |
Oct 29 |
Seventh day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault |
Oct 29 |
Alaska highway completed |
Oct 29 |
Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers |
Oct 29 |
Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union |
Oct 30 |
8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault |
Oct 30 |
US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea |
Oct 31 |
94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton) |
Oct 31 |
9th day of the Battle of El Alamein |
Nov 1 |
10th day of battle at El Alamein |
Nov 1 |
John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest |
Nov 2 |
11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir |
Nov 3 |
12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault |
Nov 3 |
Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP |
Nov 3 |
Mort Cooper wins NL MVP |
Nov 3 |
William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
Nov 4 |
13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing |
Nov 5 |
Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris |
Nov 5 |
Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission |
Nov 6 |
Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews |
Nov 6 |
Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai |
Nov 7 |
First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French |
Nov 7 |
Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) |
Nov 8 |
1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) |
Nov 8 |
Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall |
Nov 8 |
Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa |
Nov 8 |
Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US |
Nov 9 |
German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier |
Nov 9 |
Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
Nov 10 |
Philip Barry's "Without Love" premieres in NYC |
Nov 10 |
US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco |
Nov 10 |
US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria |
Nov 11 |
-12] last German offensive in Stalingrad |
Nov 11 |
745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz |
Nov 11 |
During WW II Germany completes the occupation of France |
Nov 11 |
Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David |
Nov 11 |
Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java |
Nov 11 |
Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany |
Nov 12 |
In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began |
Nov 13 |
Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal |
Nov 13 |
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 |
Nov 14 |
-Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal) |
Nov 14 |
Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender |
Nov 15 |
World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219. |
Nov 16 |
Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed |
Nov 18 |
Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC |
Nov 19 |
Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" |
Nov 19 |
Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front |
Nov 20 |
26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski |
Nov 20 |
British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya |
Nov 20 |
NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over |
Nov 20 |
Soviet army offensive during WWII, 1 million Russians breach German lines |
Nov 21 |
Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don) |
Nov 21 |
Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties" |
Nov 22 |
Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov |
Nov 22 |
Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man |
Nov 23 |
3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders |
Nov 23 |
Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized |
Nov 23 |
Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender |
Nov 23 |
German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad |
Nov 23 |
Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia |
Nov 23 |
Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed |
Nov 23 |
Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don |
Nov 23 |
Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days |
Nov 24 |
Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk |
Nov 24 |
French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
Nov 25 |
National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms |
Nov 26 |
"Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC |
Nov 26 |
Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms |
Nov 27 |
Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
Nov 27 |
French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them |
Nov 27 |
Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia |
Nov 28 |
492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston |
Nov 29 |
US rations coffee |
Nov 30 |
-Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal |
Nov 30 |
109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) |
Nov 30 |
30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5 |
Nov 30 |
Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system |
Nov 30 |
German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama |
Dec 1 |
Gasoline rationed in US |
Dec 1 |
The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state |
Dec 2 |
Nuclear-Physicist Walter Zinn initiates the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in the world's first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago |
Dec 4 |
1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) |
Dec 4 |
FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration |
Dec 4 |
US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II |
Dec 4 |
Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization. |
Dec 5 |
CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto |
Dec 5 |
Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to work |
Dec 5 |
West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland |
Dec 6 |
Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth |
Dec 6 |
RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) |
Dec 8 |
8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB) |
Dec 10 |
Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people" |
Dec 10 |
North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
Dec 11 |
Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
Dec 12 |
German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
Dec 12 |
A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people. |
Dec 13 |
Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
Dec 13 |
Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title |
Dec 15 |
Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs |
Dec 16 |
Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan |
Dec 17 |
Allies in London sentence German war criminals |
Dec 20 |
1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta |
Dec 21 |
US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal |
Dec 22 |
World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. |
Dec 23 |
Allies air attack on Den Helder |
Dec 24 |
1st powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany |
Dec 24 |
Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk |
Dec 25 |
Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death |
Dec 25 |
British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter |
Dec 25 |
Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad |
Dec 27 |
1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use |
Dec 27 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14 |
Dec 27 |
The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded. |
Dec 28 |
Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus |
Dec 28 |
Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times |
Dec 31 |
60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton) |
Dec 31 |
Battle in Barents Sea |
Dec 31 |
Potatoes rationed in Holland |
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