Jun 18 Australian government announces Australia no longer threatened with invasion

Jun 20 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)

Jun 01 Actor Leslie Howard dies today when a civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during WWII, killing all on board.

Jun 10 Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, proposed that helicopters be developed for antisubmarine warfare, "not as a killer craft but as the eyes and ears of the convoy escorts." To this end he recommended that helicopters be equipped with radar and dunking sonar.

Jun 16 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)

Jun 26 RCAF bomber wing begins operating from North Africa; 3 squadrons; a prelude to invasions of Sicily and Italy.

Jun 02 99th Pursuit Squadron flies first combat mission (over Italy)

Jun 20 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes

Jun 10 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)

Jun 13 The birth of Malcolm McDowell, Film actor

Jun 07 Professor Clauberg in Auschwitz reports a sterilization rate of 1,000 women a day, mostly on Jewish women from Greece.

Jun 11 An Axis garrison at Pantelleria, in the central Mediterranean area, surrenders after six days and nights of heavy bombing.

Jun 29 During World War 2, American forces land in New Guinea

Jun 09 Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax

Jun 14 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that schoolchildren cannot be required to salute the U.S. flag if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs.

Jun 21 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead

Jun 10 FDR becomes first US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime

Jun 20 Ungava Bay Quebec, Chubb sights the New Quebec Crater; one of the world's largest, at 403 metres deep and nearly 11 km around.

Dec 27 Curtis Veeder, the engineer who invented the modern automotive tachometer and odometer, died on this day

Dec 27 Defending German paratroopers start to abandon town of Ortona after a week of fierce fighting with Maj-Gen Christopher Vokes' 1st Canadian Division; infantry from the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada suffered heavy casualties; 1,372 Canadians killed in taking Ortona and environs.

Dec 24 FDR appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

Dec 28 Canadian troops enter the medieval town of Ortona after a week of battling enemy paratroopers in house to house fighting; Germans moved out quickly the night before when they were in danger of being cut off

Dec 04 Aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16) and USS Independence (CVL-22) attack Kwajalein Atoll, sinking four Japanese ships and damaging five others, while only three U.S. ships suffered damage.

Dec 02 Sixteen Allied vessels are lost by Axis bombing at Bari, eastern Italy.

Dec 14 Capt. Paul Triguet (Royal 22e Regiment) wins the Victoria Cross at Casa Berardi, Italy

Dec 16 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200

Dec 23 First telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady NY

Dec 22 Canadian First Division surrounds Ortona, cuts off German retreat; starts week-long battle with savage house to house fighting.

Dec 26 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst

Dec 21 USS Grayling (SS-208) sinks fourth Japanese ship since 18 December.

Dec 31 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater

Dec 27 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government

Dec 26 General A.G.L. 'Andy' McNaughton 1887-1966 retires as commander of First Canadian Army

Dec 31 The birth of Ben Kingsley, British actor

Aug 02 Revolt in Treblinka.

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