Apr 09 Re-establishment of Commodore rank in the U.S. Navy

Apr 13 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

Nov 20 US forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island

Nov 01 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area

Nov 23 On this day, 200 German soldiers surrounded the house where British agent Michael Trotobas was hiding. Trotobas shot and killed the Gestapo officer who had come to arrest him, then kept firing until he was gunned down himself

Nov 28 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy

Nov 21 The birth of Jacques Laffite, French Grand Prix driver

Nov 23 For the second straight day, British bombers attacked Berlin, recording 1,315 civilian deaths. The two-day bombing resulted in a total of over 4,000 Berliner deaths. British aircrew deaths from the attacks neared 300.

Nov 02 In a few days, 50,000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers

Nov 10 The U.S. State Department demolishes FDR's plan to set up refugee camps in North Africa and Southern Europe.

Nov 22 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis 20 Wimbledon titles)

Nov 22 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis: 20 Wimbledon titles)

Nov 23 US forces seized control of Tarawa &Makin from Japanese

Nov 22 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

Sep 04 Australians land near Lae, New Guinea

Sep 06 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79

Sep 22 U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.

Sep 07 Italy surrenders to the Allies

Sep 20 HMCS ST CROIX (RCN),sunk by a new acoustic torpedoSE of Greenland by 2 torpedoes from German U.305.

Sep 29 Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice

Sep 20 Rome is occupied by the Germans. The German Army now controls most of Italy.

Sep 16 Australians capture Lae

Sep 18 Most of the 2,000 deported Minsk Jews are killed in Sobibor.

Sep 13 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

Sep 17 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station

Sep 08 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II

Sep 03 Invasion of Italy by Allied forces; Italy secretly signs armistice with the Allies.

Sep 29 The birth of Lech Walesa, Polish leader; founder of Solidarity trade union

Sep 12 Benito Mussolini, captured by the Allies, is rescued by the Germans

Sep 10 Tottori, Japan a 7.4 quake resulted in 1,190 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

Sep 09 Italy surrenders to the Allies

Sep 07 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)

Sep 09 The Allies land in the Naples area.

Sep 26 Operation Jaywick – an Australian SOA (Special Operations Australia) unit, operating from the fishing vessel Krait, mines Japanese ships in Singapore harbour The operation sinks 37,000 tons of enemy shipping

Jun 10 The ballpoint pen patented in the United States

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