Apr 04 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists

Apr 13 Mont Canadiens sweep Chicago Black Hawks for the Stanley Cup

Nov 06 Recognition of the future importance of turbojet and turboprop powerplants led the Bureau of Aeronautics to request the Naval Air Material Center to study requirements for a laboratory to develop and test gas-turbine powerplants

Nov 07 FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

Nov 29 John Hopkins hospital performs first open heart surgery

Nov 07 Franklin D.Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President

Nov 08 Roosevelt wins the U.S. Presidency for a fourth term. Democrats gain in the House.

Nov 29 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)

Nov 24 First B-29 raids from Marianas base.

Nov 24 HMCS Shawinigan (Corvette) lost in the CAbot Strait

Nov 12 The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast.

Nov 08 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to the Nazis for forced labor

Nov 15 Government approves sending members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) to New Guinea to replace men for service in forward areas Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) were already serving in New Guinea

Nov 24 US bombers based on Saipan, first attack Tokyo

Nov 01 Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2,300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand.

Nov 25 A German V-2 missile hit a Woolworth's department store in New Cross Road, Deptford, killing 160 midday shoppers. The V-2 was a recent innovation in German ammunition

Sep 13 U.S. heavy bombers rain destruction on factory areas a few miles from Auschwitz, but Allies refuse to bomb railroad tracks or gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Sep 29 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia

Sep 09 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

Sep 13 The birth of Jacqueline Bisset, English actress

Sep 13 Soviet troops arrive at the Slovakian border.

Sep 28 First TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)

Sep 02 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane

Sep 29 Near the end of World War 2, the Red Army enters Yugoslavia

Sep 20 Death in action, while filming American troops on Peleliu, of Australian cameraman Damien Parer Parer made what has been considered Australia's most famous war film – Kokoda Front Line The film won an Academy Award and gave international exposure to the experiences of Australian soldiers in 1942 on the Kokoda Track

Sep 30 Calais reoccupied by Allies

Sep 11 Holland is liberated by the Allies.

Sep 03 Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US tennis title

Sep 05 Allies liberate Brussels

Sep 22 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies

Sep 11 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference

Sep 08 The first V-2 rocket lands in Britain

Sep 28 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands

Sep 08 German V2 rockets strike London for the first time

Sep 09 Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (often referred to as the invasion of Bulgaria by Russia) (National Day)

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