Nov 27 The birth of Jimi Hendrix, American Guitarist and singer

Nov 09 First 4,000 Lublin Jews are brought to be killed at the newly-organized camp at Majdanek, located outside Lublin.

Nov 11 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France

Nov 23 The V-173, a full-scale model of a fighter aircraft with an almost circular wing, made its first flight at the Vought-Sikorsky plant, Stratford, Conn. A military version of this aircraft, the XF5U-1, was constructed later but never flown.

Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front

Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them

Nov 19 American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born

Nov 08 U.S. forces land in French Africa with British naval and air units assisting.

Nov 19 The birth of Calvin Klein, American fashion designer

Nov 08 Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Africa

Nov 03 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago

Nov 20 Operation Galvanic, under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, lands Navy, Marine, and Army forces on Tarawa and Makin.

Nov 02 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II)

Nov 23 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized

Nov 24 The State Department confirms the existence of Nazi extermination camps and the murder of two million Jews to date.

Nov 05 Theatrical agent George M. Cohan dies.

Nov 03 Battle of El Alamein ends in the North African desert in WWII

Nov 17 The birth of Martin Scorsese, American director

Nov 28 World War II saw the U.S. government ask its people to make a truly noble sacrifice--forgoing coffee. The government put the pinch to caffeine addicts across the nation, announcing coffee rationing to help aid the war effort.

Nov 21 Alcan Highway Completed (Road to Alaska)

Nov 28 The first production Ford bomber, the B-24 Liberator, rolled off the assembly line at Ford's massive Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan

Nov 23 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed

Nov 04 Battle of El Alamein ends with victory for the allies, after 12 days conflict with Rommel's 'Africa Corps'

Sep 02 The Chief Rabbi of Norway, Julues Samuel, refuses to go into hiding and chooses to join 208 Norwegian Jews sent to Bergen Belsen.

Sep 14 HMS SIKH, sunk off Tobruk, eastern Libya - by German shore batteries. during landings Royal Marines for British combined operations raid on Tobruk

Sep 24 HMS SOMALI lost north of Iceland after being stuck by 1 torpedo from German U.703 on 20th in Greenland Sea.floundered while being towed by 'Ashanti', went down in bad weather, 45 men lost

Sep 13 German forces begin attack on Stalingrad

Sep 03 Ol' Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, begins his solo singing career.

Sep 13 German forces attack Stalingrad

Sep 14 HMS ZULU,sunk NW of Alexandria, Egypt (c 32-00'N, 29-00'E) - by Italian/German force of Ju87 and Ju88 bombers, while returning to Alexandria after combined operations raid on Tobruk

Sep 06 German advance into the USSR halted at Stalingrad

Sep 25 Japanese withdrawal begins along Owen Stanley Trail starts

Sep 14 HMCS OTTAWA (RCN, ex 'Crusader'), sunk east of Newfoundland by 1 torpedo from German U.91.

Sep 09 The first bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Or (WW2)

Sep 02 Sternbuch cable arrives at the Polish embassy in Washington, recounting the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Warsaw to death camps, and how Jewish babies were being used to produce soap and fertilizer for Germany industry.

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