Dec 09 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"

Dec 10 HMS REPULSE sunk with HMS PRince of Wales but hit by 5 torpedoes. Destroyers rescued 1,285 officers and men

Dec 01 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes

Dec 09 The first US WW II bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines

Dec 07 Pearl Harbour attacked without a declaration of war by Japanese aircraft, sinking much of the US fleet

Dec 02 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY

Dec 31 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Dec 22 Japanese capture Sugar Loaf Hill at 12 noon, but Canadians from C Company of the Royal Rifles recapture the hill; later taken out to Stanley Fort down the peninsula, for a rest; will hold out until their ammunition, food and water are exhausted.

Dec 11 Buick lowered its prices to reflect the absence of spare tires or inner tubes from its new cars. Widespread shortages caused by World War II had led to many quotas and laws designed to conserve America's resources

Aug 31 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC

Aug 12 Sikorski-Stalin Polish-Russian agreement allows many Polish Jews to be freed for Siberian labor camp.

Aug 11 British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter

Aug 13 Australian Women's Army Service formed

Aug 28 The Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.

Aug 02 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia

Aug 01 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia

Aug 07 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania

Aug 30 Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.

Aug 30 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II

Oct 16 "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers

Oct 30 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war

Oct 16 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow

Oct 08 The birth of Jesse Jackson, American civic leader and clergyman

Oct 27 An editorial in the Chicago Daily Tribune downplays the possibility of a US war with Japan, stating "Even our base at Hawaii is beyond the effective power of her fleet."

Oct 10 The resienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia is established.

Oct 16 General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.

Oct 26 US savings bonds go on sale

Oct 23 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

Oct 03 The birth of Chubby Checker, American rock singer

Oct 02 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed

Oct 15 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death

Oct 17 First US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland

Oct 12 Germans approach Moscow, partial evacuation of the city.

Oct 05 Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis dies.

Jul 06 NY Yankees unviel a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield

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