World War II · German
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Enero
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
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acontecimiento · 1934 A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
22 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
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acontecimiento · 1942 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring.
32 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
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acontecimiento · 1911 A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
82 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.
92 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
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nacimiento · 1854 Jennie Jerome, American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill (died 1921)
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
142 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.
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acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
173 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
acontecimiento · 1899 The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine with all hands northeast of Falkonera.
203 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
244 hechos ·
nacimiento · 1889 Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, German general of paratroop forces during World War II (died 1968)
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
fallecimiento · 1965 Winston Churchill, English statesman, soldier, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
283 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
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acontecimiento · 1871 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
acontecimiento · 1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.
312 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
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acontecimiento · 1978 The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
Febrero
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
44 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
acontecimiento · 1974 M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Great Raids Against Helsinki begins.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal campaign.
82 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: British and Canadian forces commence Operation Veritable to occupy land between the Maas and Rhine rivers.
93 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
102 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
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acontecimiento · 1947 The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
142 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.
152 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer . A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
202 hechos ·
nacimiento · 1912 Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War (died 2006)
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
212 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier and damage the .
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acontecimiento · 1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
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acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: First large-scale protest march resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany.
262 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: US troops reclaim the Philippine island of Corregidor from the Japanese.
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acontecimiento · 1935 Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Operation Biting launches its overnight raid on the German coastal radar station at Bruneval to retrieve a Würzburg installation.
Marzo
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acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
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acontecimiento · 1939 An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
32 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
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acontecimiento · 1776 American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, the first large-scale British Commando raid.
52 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
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acontecimiento · 1946 Cold War: Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army.
93 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrenders to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese complete their Dutch East Indies campaign.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
acontecimiento · 1847 Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
192 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
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acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
242 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
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acontecimiento · 1942 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany and Vichy France begin the deportation of 65,000 Jews from Drancy internment camp to German extermination camps.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
313 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
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acontecimiento · 1939 Events preceding World War II in Europe: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pledges British military support to the Second Polish Republic in the event of an invasion by Nazi Germany.
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
Abril
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
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nacimiento · 1885 Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill (died 1977)
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3,000 civilians.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.
62 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
73 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
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acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
acontecimiento · 1943 Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only from Berlin.
132 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: In the Belfast Blitz, 200 bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing some 1,000 people.
162 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Axis powers invasion of Yugoslavia is completed when it signs an armistice with Germany and Italy.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
192 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
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acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
202 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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nacimiento · 1889 Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Göring that the telegram is treasonous.
243 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
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acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
acontecimiento · 1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
252 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two. This would be later known as Elbe Day.
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acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
263 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
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acontecimiento · 1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
acontecimiento · 1777 Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1987 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
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acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
283 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
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acontecimiento · 1945 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
acontecimiento · 1952 The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
302 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The British submarine surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
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fallecimiento · 1945 Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)
Mayo
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: German radio broadcasts news of Adolf Hitler's death, falsely stating that he has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin. Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Norwegian campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
63 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1937 Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
93 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated from Nazi occupation.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
celebración · Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
104 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
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acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1987 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
132 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins, as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
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fallecimiento · 1929 Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (born 1878)
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands, is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
182 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1993 Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor for repairs.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: German paratroopers start a series of mass executions of Greek civilians in Missiria for their participation in the ongoing Battle of Crete.
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acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
242 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.
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acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: In the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy, , killing all but three crewmen.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
262 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1903 Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.
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acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. The Battle of Dunkirk begins simultaneously as Allied defenders fight to slow down the German offensive.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
Junio
14 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
3 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1962 Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged in Israel for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.
fallecimiento · 1962 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer, key organizer of the Holocaust (born 1906)
acontecimiento · 1943 BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
52 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
62 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—, , and —are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser . The American carrier and the destroyer are also sunk.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Commencement of Operation Overlord: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.
72 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
82 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian campaign.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
122 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1943 The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
142 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
152 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1 más ese día
nacimiento · 1881 Kesago Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army (died 1945)
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
183 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1945 William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
213 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 Having defeated forces of Vichy France, Allied forces capture Damascus.
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
242 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1945 The first Victory Day Parade takes place on Red Square in Moscow, Soviet Union, symbolizing the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.
252 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began.
262 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1945 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1 más ese día
fallecimiento · 2014 Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
Julio
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein.
32 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
44 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
3 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1954 Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end.
acontecimiento · 1941 Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
54 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
3 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper river.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
72 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1937 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
102 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.
112 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Battle of Kursk: German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Montenegrins begin the Trinaestojulski ustanak (Thirteenth of July Uprising), a popular revolt against the Axis powers.
141 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1889 Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (died 1959)
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, hold the Potsdam Conference in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin on the Eastern Front.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
252 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1934 The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
263 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Battle of Grand Harbour, British forces on Malta destroy an attack by the Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS. Fort St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1936 Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
acontecimiento · 1945 The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: sinks the , killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
313 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
acontecimiento · 1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
Agosto
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black Sunday", is a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: After the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Battle of Guam in the Pacific comes to an effective end.
122 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches an air operation, codenamed Adlertag, during the Battle of Britain in an attempt to destroy the British Royal Air Force.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
154 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan.
3 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
acontecimiento · 1995 Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.
acontecimiento · 1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: US Navy L-class blimp L-8 drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found.
173 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
192 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Operation Jubilee (The Dieppe Raid): The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: During the Guadalcanal campaign, American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
233 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is later arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
242 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier is heavily damaged.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
255 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
4 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 and facilitated Jewish emigration from Germany and into British Mandate of Palestine.
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay, New Guinea, initiating the Battle of Milne Bay.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
282 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1936 Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
312 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1939 Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
Septiembre
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
22 hechos ·
nacimiento · 1924 Sidney Phillips, USMC WW2 combat veteran, physician, and author (died 2015)
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
53 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae during the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
72 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1945 World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
92 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The submarine is mistakenly sunk by the submarine near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
122 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
142 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
153 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1935 Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
acontecimiento · 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
192 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
302 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1 más ese día
fallecimiento · 2018 Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925)
Octubre
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1938 Pursuant to the Munich Agreement signed the day before, Nazi Germany begins the military occupation and annexation of Czechoslovakia Sudetenland.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Ocean Liner accidentally rams and sinks , killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
62 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The sinks the British battleship within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
172 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1 más ese día
nacimiento · 1919 Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (died 2014)
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
212 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and boys takes place.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1931 A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1941 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.
242 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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acontecimiento · 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Jiuliancheng: Under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo, the Imperial Japanese Army covertly crosses the Yalu River into Qing territory and launches an assault on the fortifications at Hushan.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
262 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
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acontecimiento · 1937 Nazi Germany begins expulsions of 18,000 Polish Jews.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
282 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
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celebración · Anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the liberation from Nazi German troops of the territory of current Ukraine
292 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
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acontecimiento · 1941 The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
302 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
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nacimiento · 1878 Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (died 1929)
312 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends, causing Germany to abandon Operation Sea Lion.
Noviembre
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal campaign and ends on November 12.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser is sunk by the German pocket battleship .
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
82 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
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acontecimiento · 1940 Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
91 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1894 Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II (died 1966)
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
122 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
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acontecimiento · 1933 Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal campaign.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
153 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
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acontecimiento · 1938 Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
acontecimiento · 1899 Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
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acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: is sunk by the German battleships and .
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acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
253 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1912 Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians prior to World War II, ceases its publications.
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acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: is sunk by a German torpedo.
acontecimiento · 1936 In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
263 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
291 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1900 Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (died 1988)
302 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
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nacimiento · 1874 Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
Diciembre
12 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
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acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1938 Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.
42 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: is struck by a mine (laid by ) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
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acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
92 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
102 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
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acontecimiento · 1953 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: , and .
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1913 , the fourth and last ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
152 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign.
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acontecimiento · 1941 The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers", in Kunming, China.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: A Thai-Japanese Pact of Alliance is signed.
222 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1939 Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom.
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acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
282 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1941 World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
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fallecimiento · 1959 Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (born 1889)
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1940 World War II: in the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1942 World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.
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