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Mar 26 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
Mar 27 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
Mar 27 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
Mar 27 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
Mar 28 - -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck
Mar 28 - 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
Mar 28 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
Mar 28 - Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire
Mar 29 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
Mar 29 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
Mar 29 - German submarine U-585 sinks
Mar 29 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
Mar 30 - 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
Mar 30 - SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
Apr 1 - Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
Apr 1 - Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
Apr 2 - USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
Apr 7 - Heavy German assault on Malta
Apr 8 - A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Apr 9 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
Apr 10 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
Apr 11 - Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
Apr 12 - 9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280
Apr 12 - Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
Apr 14 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
Apr 15 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
Apr 16 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
Apr 16 - King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
Apr 17 - 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
Apr 17 - Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
Apr 17 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
Apr 18 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
Apr 18 - James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
Apr 18 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
Apr 19 - 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2
Apr 20 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
Apr 20 - Heavy German assault on Malta
Apr 23 - 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
Apr 23 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
Apr 24 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
Apr 25 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
Apr 26 - Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
Apr 26 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
Apr 27 - Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
Apr 27 - Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
Apr 28 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
Apr 28 - Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
Apr 29 - Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
Apr 29 - Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
Apr 30 - 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
May 1 - Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
May 2 - 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
May 2 - Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
May 3 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
May 3 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
May 3 - Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
May 3 - Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
May 4 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
May 4 - Food 1st rationed in US
May 4 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
May 4 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
May 5 - British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
May 5 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II
May 6 - Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
May 7 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
May 7 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
May 8 - Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
May 8 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea
May 8 - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
May 9 - 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
May 10 - World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
May 11 - Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner May 11 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
May 12 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
May 12 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
May 12 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
May 12 - Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
May 13 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
May 13 - Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
May 14 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
May 15 - Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
May 15 - Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
May 16 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
May 17 - Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
May 18 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
May 19 - Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
May 20 - US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler May 21 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
May 22 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
May 22 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
May 26 - Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
May 26 - Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
May 26 - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
May 27 - Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
May 27 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
May 27 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
May 27 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
May 28 - 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
May 29 - Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date
May 30 - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
May 30 - Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague
May 30 - Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
Singer and Actor Bing Crosby May 30 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
May 31 - 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ
May 31 - Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
Jun 2 - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
Jun 4 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
Jun 4 - Capitol Record Co opens for business
Jun 4 - USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
Jun 5 - British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
Jun 5 - Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
Jun 5 - USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
Jun 6 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
Jun 6 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
Jun 6 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
Jun 6 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
Jun 7 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
US Admiral Chester Nimitz Jun 7 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
Jun 7 - Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
Jun 8 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
Jun 9 - Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
Jun 9 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
Jun 9 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
Jun 10 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
Jun 10 - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
Jun 11 - German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
Jun 11 - US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
Jun 12 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
Jun 12 - Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
Jun 12 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
Jun 13 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
Jun 13 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Jun 13 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
Jun 13 - OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
Jun 13 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
Jun 14 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
Jun 14 - Anne Frank begins her diary
Jun 14 - French government of Reynaud resigns
Jun 14 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
Jun 18 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
Jun 18 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
Jun 19 - Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
Jun 20 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
Jun 20 - German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
Jun 21 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
Jun 21 - President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
Jun 21 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
Jun 21 - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
Jun 22 - Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
Jun 22 - Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms