Jan 17 Warsaw is liberated by Polish and Soviet forces during WWII.

Jan 26 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

Jan 01 German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels

Jan 27 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested

Jan 15 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets

Jan 17 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation

Jan 25 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths

Jan 01 France is admitted to the United Nations.

Jan 03 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room

Jan 26 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

Jan 31 Eddie Slovik, first American executed for desertion since Civil War

Jan 27 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)

Jan 16 U.S. first and 3rd army units close the bulge, but do not succeed in entrapping enemy forces.

Jan 26 Soviet troops arrive at Auschwitz to discover 7,600 survivors and 648 corpses. Most of the prisoners in Auschwitz had been sent out on a death march on Jan 18.

Jan 01 German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels

Jan 28 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell &truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China

Jan 03 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 10 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close

Jan 05 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"

Jan 17 Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)

Jan 09 U.S. forces land on Luzon, Phillipines.

Jan 20 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to four terms in office, was inaugurated to his final term. He died three months later and was succeeded by his vice president, Harry Truman.

Jan 17 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary

Jan 04 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam

Jan 14 Death marches to the interior of Germany begin, taking 250,000 Jewish lives.

Jan 03 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France

Jan 15 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp

Jan 31 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

Jan 03 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room

Jan 27 Russian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Birkenau and Auschwitz.

Jan 03 Greek General Plastiras forms government

Jan 04 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack

Feb 12 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference

Feb 16 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany

Feb 04 Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss plans for the defeat of the Axis powers and to decide on the post-war future

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