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Nov 23 - Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days
Nov 24 - Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
Nov 24 - French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
Nov 25 - National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
Nov 26 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
Nov 26 - Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
Nov 27 - Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
Nov 27 - French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them
Nov 27 - Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
Nov 28 - 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
Nov 29 - US rations coffee
Nov 30 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
Nov 30 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
Nov 30 - 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
Nov 30 - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
Nov 30 - German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama
Dec 1 - Gasoline rationed in US
Dec 1 - The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state
Dec 2 - 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
Dec 4 - 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dec 4 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
Dec 4 - US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
Dec 4 - Works Progress Administration liquidated
Dec 4 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization.
Dec 5 - CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
Dec 5 - Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to work
Dec 5 - West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
Dec 6 - Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
Dec 6 - RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
Dec 8 - 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
Dec 10 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
Dec 10 - North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
Dec 11 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
Dec 12 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
Dec 12 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

Dec 13 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
Dec 13 - Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
Dec 15 - Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
Dec 16 - Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
Dec 17 - Allies in London sentence German war criminals
Dec 20 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
Dec 21 - US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
Dec 22 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
Dec 23 - Allies air attack on Den Helder
Dec 24 - 1st powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany
Dec 24 - Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
Dec 25 - Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
Dec 25 - British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
Dec 25 - Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
Dec 27 - 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
Dec 27 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14
Dec 27 - The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
Dec 28 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
Dec 28 - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
Dec 31 - 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
Dec 31 - Battle in Barents Sea
Dec 31 - Potatoes rationed in Holland