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Thursday, 11 June 2026
Nov 19 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden". 
Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front.
Nov 20 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski.
Nov 20 Operation Galvanic, under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, lands Navy, Marine, and Army forces on Tarawa and Makin
Nov 21 Alcan Highway Completed (Road to Alaska).
Nov 21 Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
Nov 21 James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76
Nov 22 Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov.
Nov 23 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
Nov 23 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized.
Nov 23 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed.
Nov 23 The V-173, a full-scale model of a fighter aircraft with an almost circular wing, made its inaugural flight at the Vought-Sikorsky plant, Stratford, Conn. A military version of this aircraft, the XF5U-1, was constructed later but never flown
Nov 24 Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk.
Nov 24 The State Department confirms the existence of Nazi extermination camps and the murder of two million Jews to date
Nov 25 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
Nov 26 "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
Nov 27 A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for S Africa 1935-39), dies.
Nov 27 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
Nov 27 Jimi Hendrix, American Guitarist and singer is born.
Nov 28 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
Nov 28 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA.
Nov 28 The inaugural production Ford bomber, the B-24 Liberator, rolled off the assembly line at Ford's massive Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan
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 29 US rations coffee.
Nov 30 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
Dec 01 Gasoline rationed in US
Dec 02 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
Dec 02 Bob E Smith, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1993 Yanase Cup).
Dec 02 inaugural successful nuclear chain reaction, created by physicists Enrico Fermi and Arthur Crompton
Dec 02 The inaugural controlled nuclear chain reaction (University of Chicago).
Dec 03 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer, dies at 75.
Dec 04 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey).
Dec 04 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration.
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