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Sep 7 - 62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (8-6 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-2)
Sep 7 - German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
Sep 7 - Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 7 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
Sep 9 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
Sep 9 - Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia
Sep 9 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
Sep 10 - British troops lands on Madagascar
Sep 10 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
Sep 11 - Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 12 - Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
Sep 12 - Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
Sep 13 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
Sep 13 - Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
Sep 13 - German forces attack Stalingrad
Sep 14 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
Sep 14 - German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
Sep 14 - Yanks clinch pennant #13
Sep 15 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
Sep 16 - Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
Sep 18 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
Sep 20 - Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
Sep 21 - 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
Sep 21 - Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 22 - Meulenberg robs of church bells
Sep 23 - Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
Sep 23 - Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
Sep 23 - Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Sep 27 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
Sep 27 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
Sep 27 - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer)
Sep 27 - St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season
Sep 28 - Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
Sep 28 - NY Americans NHL team folded
Sep 29 - 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
Sep 29 - Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
Sep 30 - 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)
US Admiral Chester Nimitz Sep 30 - Admiral Nimitz B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
Sep 30 - SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
Oct 1 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
Oct 1 - Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
Oct 2 - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
Oct 2 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
Oct 3 - FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
Oct 3 - Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
Oct 3 - NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 & suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season
Oct 4 - German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
Oct 5 - 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
Oct 5 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
Oct 6 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
Oct 7 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
Oct 7 - Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Oct 7 - Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC
Oct 7 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
Oct 7 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
Oct 8 - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
Oct 9 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
Oct 10 - 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
Oct 11 - -Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal
Oct 12 - Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
Oct 12 - US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
Oct 14 - Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
Oct 14 - German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
Oct 14 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 15 - German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die
Oct 16 - Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
Oct 16 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
Oct 16 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler Oct 18 - Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed
Oct 20 - "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
Oct 22 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
Oct 22 - US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
Oct 23 - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
Oct 23 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
Oct 23 - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
Oct 23 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
Oct 24 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
Oct 25 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
Oct 25 - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
Oct 25 - Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
Oct 26 - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Oct 26 - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
Oct 26 - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Oct 27 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
Oct 27 - US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
Oct 28 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
Oct 28 - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
Oct 29 - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
Oct 29 - Alaska highway completed
Oct 29 - Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
Oct 29 - Nazis murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
Oct 30 - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
Oct 30 - US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
Oct 31 - 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)
Oct 31 - 9th day of the Battle of El Alamein
Nov 1 - 10th day of battle at El Alamein
Nov 1 - John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
Nov 2 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
Nov 2 - Britian under Montgomery defeats German forces under Rommel in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II)
Nov 3 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
Baseball Player Ted Williams Nov 3 - Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
Nov 3 - Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
Nov 3 - William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
Nov 4 - 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing
Nov 5 - Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
Nov 5 - Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
Nov 6 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
Nov 6 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai
Nov 7 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
Nov 7 - Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
Nov 8 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
Nov 8 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
Nov 8 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
Nov 8 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
Nov 9 - German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
Nov 9 - Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
Nov 10 - Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
Nov 10 - US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
Nov 10 - US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
Nov 11 - -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
Nov 11 - 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
Nov 11 - During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
Nov 11 - Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
Nov 11 - Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
Nov 11 - Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Nov 12 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
Nov 13 - Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
Nov 13 - Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
Nov 14 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)
Nov 14 - Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
Nov 15 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
Nov 16 - Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
Nov 18 - Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Information Joseph Goebbels Nov 19 - Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
Nov 19 - Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
Nov 20 - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
Nov 20 - British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
Nov 20 - NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
Nov 20 - Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
Nov 21 - Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
Nov 21 - Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
Nov 22 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
Nov 22 - Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man
Nov 23 - 3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
Nov 23 - Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
Nov 23 - Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
Nov 23 - German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
Nov 23 - Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
Nov 23 - Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed
Nov 23 - Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don