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Jun 23 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
Jun 24 - Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
Jun 24 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt
Jun 25 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
Jun 25 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
Jun 25 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
Jun 26 - German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
Jun 27 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
Jun 27 - PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
Jun 28 - Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
Jun 28 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
Jun 29 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
Jun 30 - 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
Jun 30 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
Jun 30 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
Jun 30 - US bombs Celebes & Timor
Jul 1 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
Jul 3 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
Jul 3 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler Jul 4 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
Jul 4 - US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
Jul 5 - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
Jul 5 - Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
Jul 6 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
Jul 6 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
Jul 6 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
Jul 7 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
Jul 7 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
Jul 10 - Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
Jul 10 - Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
Jul 13 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
Jul 13 - German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
Jul 13 - SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
Jul 14 - 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the HolocaustAnne Frank Jul 14 - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
Jul 15 - 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
Jul 15 - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
Jul 16 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
Jul 16 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
Jul 17 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
Jul 17 - Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
Jul 17 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Jul 18 - 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
Jul 18 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
Jul 18 - World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
Jul 19 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
Jul 19 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
Jul 20 - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
Jul 20 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
Jul 20 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
Jul 20 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
Jul 21 - 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
Jul 22 - 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
Jul 22 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
Jul 22 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
Jul 23 - German troops conquer Rostow
Jul 23 - Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
Jul 23 - Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
Jul 23 - World War II: Operation Edelweiss begins.
Composer and LyricistIrving Berlin Jul 24 - Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
Jul 25 - German troops occupy Rostov
Jul 25 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
Jul 26 - RAF bombs Hamburg
Jul 26 - RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
Jul 28 - Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
Jul 28 - Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
Jul 29 - Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
Jul 30 - FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
Jul 30 - German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
Jul 30 - German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
Jul 31 - German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
Jul 31 - U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
Aug 1 - Deurne soccer team forms
Aug 1 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Aug 1 - Race riots in Harlem, New York
Aug 2 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
Aug 2 - Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
Aug 4 - 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
Aug 4 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
Aug 4 - Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
Aug 4 - German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
Aug 5 - British government cancels agreement of Munich
Aug 5 - German troops cross Kuban River
Aug 6 - -8] Riots by Dutch Jews
Aug 6 - Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
Aug 6 - Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
Aug 6 - Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
Aug 7 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
Aug 7 - Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
Nazi Politician Aug 7 - Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 8 - "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
Aug 8 - 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
Aug 8 - Dianthus sinks U-379
Aug 8 - Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
Aug 9 - 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
Aug 9 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
Aug 9 - Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
Aug 9 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
Aug 10 - Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
Aug 11 - - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
Aug 11 - 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
Aug 11 - British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
Aug 11 - Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
Aug 12 - British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
Soviet Union PremierJoseph Stalin Aug 12 - German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
Aug 12 - Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
Aug 14 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
Aug 15 - 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
Aug 16 - Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
Aug 17 - 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
Aug 17 - 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
Aug 17 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
Aug 17 - Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 17 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
Aug 18 - Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese
Aug 19 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
Aug 19 - Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
Aug 19 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
Aug 20 - Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
Aug 21 - Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
Aug 21 - Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 21 - World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
Aug 22 - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
Aug 23 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
Aug 23 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
Aug 23 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
Aug 23 - Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
Aug 23 - World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
Aug 24 - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
Aug 24 - Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 25 - SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
Aug 26 - 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
Aug 26 - Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
Aug 26 - Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
Aug 26 - Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 27 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
Aug 28 - 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
Aug 28 - Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
Aug 28 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Aug 30 - Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
Aug 31 - Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
Aug 31 - U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
Sep 1 - Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
Sep 1 - German troops land on Taman peninsula
Sep 2 - German troops enter Stalingrad
Sep 4 - Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 5 - Battle at Alam Halfa ends
Sep 5 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
Sep 6 - 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
Sep 6 - Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau