| January 1 | Netherlands begins taxing wages |
| January 1 | Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff |
| January 3 | Canada and U.S. acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease) |
| January 3 | Italian counter offensive in Albania |
| January 3 | Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia |
| January 4 | Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet |
| January 4 | Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in Philadelphia |
| January 5 | British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
| January 6 | FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) |
| January 8 | British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns |
| January 9 | 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania |
| January 9 | Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane |
| January 10 | Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace," premieres in New York City |
| January 10 | Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews |
| January 11 | Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton |
| January 16 | U.S. Vice Admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor |
| January 16 | War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets |
| January 19 | British offensive in Eritrea |
| January 19 | British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan |
| January 20 | Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in New York City |
| January 21 | 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria |
| January 21 | 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX |
| January 21 | Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya |
| January 21 | British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned |
| January 22 | 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania |
| January 22 | British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians |
| January 23 | Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center |
| January 23 | WOR-AM in Newark New Jersey moves to New York City |
| January 24 | British troops march into Abyssinia |
| January 27 | Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor |
| January 30 | Australian troops conquer Derna Libya |
| January 31 | 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton) |
| January 31 | Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands |
| January 31 | Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 1 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
| February 1 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
| February 3 | Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and max hours |
| February 4 | British tanks occupy Maus Libya |
| February 4 | Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin |
| February 4 | United Service Organization, USO, founded |
| February 5 | Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands |
| February 6 | Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19) |
| February 6 | Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed |
| February 6 | British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya |
| February 7 | Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me" |
| February 8 | Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore |
| February 8 | NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio |
| February 9 | British troops conquer El Agheila |
| February 9 | Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) |
| February 10 | 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA |
| February 10 | Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands |
| February 11 | 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo) |
| February 11 | Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli |
| February 11 | Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
| February 12 | Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen |
| February 12 | Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" |
| February 13 | Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council |
| February 14 | 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel |
| February 14 | Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published |
| February 14 | Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street |
| February 14 | German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
| February 15 | Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train" |
| February 17 | Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 19 | Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews |
| February 19 | Nazi raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation |
| February 20 | 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland |
| February 20 | Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation |
| February 20 | Romania breaks relations with Netherlands |
| February 21 | U.S. Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General |
| February 22 | Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal |
| February 22 | German assault on El Agheila Libya |
| February 22 | IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| February 22 | Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam |
| February 22 | Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres |
| February 22 | Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres |
| February 24 | 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague |
| February 24 | Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam |
| February 25 | Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8) |
| February 25 | February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam |
| February 26 | 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO |
| February 26 | Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California |
| February 26 | Utrecht and Zaandam strike against raid on Jews |
| February 26 | Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory |
| February 28 | 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month |
| February 28 | British-Italian dogfight above Albania |
| March 1 | 1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee |
| March 1 | "Captain America" appears in a comic book |
| March 1 | Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner |
| March 1 | German troops invade Bulgaria |
| March 1 | Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp |
| March 3 | Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin |
| March 4 | 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague |
| March 4 | NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots |
| March 4 | Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler |
| March 7 | 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1") |
| March 7 | 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece |
| March 7 | British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| March 8 | 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) |
| March 10 | Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets |
| March 11 | Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ |
| March 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain |
| March 12 | German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
| March 13 | A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) |
| March 14 | Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies |
| March 14 | Xavier Cugat and Orchestra record "Babalu" |
| March 15 | Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 |
| March 16 | Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60 |
| March 16 | Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize |
| March 16 | National Gallery of Art opens in Washington D.C. |
| March 17 | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens |
| March 19 | Jimmy Dorsey and Orchestra record "Green Eyes" and "Maria Elena" |
| March 20 | Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn |
| March 21 | Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 22 | Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation |
| March 24 | British troops defeat British Somalia |
| March 24 | German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
| March 24 | Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox |
| March 24 | LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship |
| March 24 | Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in New York City |
| March 25 | Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon South Carolina, incorporated |
| March 27 | Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to U.S. for 99 years |
| March 27 | Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) |
| March 27 | Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul |
| March 28 | Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy |
| March 29 | 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem" |
| March 29 | 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34 |
| March 29 | WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format) |
| March 30 | German counter offensive in North-Africa |
| March 31 | Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa |
| March 31 | Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco |
| April 1 | Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in New York City |
| April 1 | Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay |
| April 1 | Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes |
| April 1 | Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq |
| April 2 | USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF |
| April 3 | Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion |
| April 3 | Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq |
| April 3 | Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago |
| April 4 | German troops conquer Banghazi |
| April 5 | In San Francisco, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses |
| April 6 | 8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 6 | Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) |
| April 6 | British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa |
| April 6 | German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) |
| April 6 | Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces |
| April 7 | British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa |
| April 8 | Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
| April 9 | PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame |
| April 10 | German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
| April 11 | Germany blitzes Conventry, England |
| April 11 | Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis |
| April 11 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets |
| April 12 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
| April 12 | Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler |
| April 13 | Heavy German assault on Tobruk |
| April 13 | Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect |
| April 14 | 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up |
| April 14 | King Peter leaves Yugoslavia |
| April 15 | 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Connecticut |
| April 16 | Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes |
| April 17 | British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis |
| April 17 | Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing) |
| April 19 | 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38 |
| April 19 | B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," premieres in Zurich |
| April 19 | Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia |
| April 19 | Milk rationed in Holland |
| April 20 | 100 German bombers attack Athens |
| April 20 | Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps |
| April 21 | Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany |
| April 23 | Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
| April 24 | British army begins evacuation of Greece |
| April 24 | Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot |
| April 25 | Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta |
| April 26 | A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs |
| April 26 | Potatoes rationed in Holland |
| April 27 | German troops occupy Athens Greece |
| April 28 | Last British troops in Greece surrenders |
| April 30 | Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia |
| May 1 | "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York |
| May 1 | General Mills introduces Cheerios |
| May 1 | German assault on Tobruk |
| May 2 | FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1 |
| May 2 | Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy |
| May 2 | Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists |
| May 2 | Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400 |
| May 3 | 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4 |
| May 3 | German air raid on Liverpool |
| May 5 | 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England |
| May 5 | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa |
| May 5 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) |
| May 6 | Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia |
| May 7 | British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3) |
| May 7 | Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid |
| May 7 | Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA |
| May 8 | German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean |
| May 9 | English Army breaks German spy codes |
| May 10 | 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8 |
| May 10 | Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland |
| May 10 | England's House of Commons and Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz |
| May 10 | Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason |
| May 11 | 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England |
| May 12 | Great British convoy marches into Alexandria |
| May 13 | Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany |
| May 13 | Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins |
| May 13 | Willy Lewis' U.S. jazz band performs in Switzerland |
| May 14 | 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested |
| May 15 | 1st British turbojet flies |
| May 15 | British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya |
| May 15 | Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees lose 13-1 |
| May 15 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music |
| May 16 | 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" |
| May 16 | Germans made their last major air attack on Britain |
| May 16 | Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
| May 16 | Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
| May 16 | Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) |
| May 17 | Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack |
| May 18 | Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia |
| May 18 | Jewish veterans honor their dead |
| May 19 | Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis |
| May 19 | New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland |
| May 20 | Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published |
| May 20 | Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence |
| May 20 | Germany invades Crete |
| May 20 | White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games |
| May 21 | 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore) |
| May 21 | German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta |
| May 21 | Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp |
| May 22 | British troops attack Baghdad |
| May 23 | Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 23 | Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5) |
| May 24 | Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive |
| May 25 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India |
| May 25 | Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941 |
| May 26 | American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia |
| May 26 | Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck |
| May 26 | German occupiers begin youth labor |
| May 27 | Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta |
| May 27 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor |
| May 27 | German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force |
| May 28 | 1st night game at Washington D.C., Griffith stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5) |
| May 28 | British army begins evacuation of Kreta |
| May 28 | New York Yankees nip Washington Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium |
| May 30 | 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia |
| May 30 | English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government |
| May 30 | German capture Kreta |
| May 31 | 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale |
| May 31 | 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
| May 31 | British troops vacate Kreta |
| May 31 | German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools |
| June 1 | 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record) |
| June 1 | British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq |
| June 1 | Germany bans all Catholic publications |
| June 1 | Germany occupies Kreta |
| June 1 | New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR and his 1,500th RBI |
| June 3 | Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol |
| June 3 | Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn |
| June 3 | German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports |
| June 4 | Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z |
| June 5 | Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| June 6 | 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched |
| June 6 | Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time |
| June 7 | 45th U.S. Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft. Worth |
| June 7 | 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31, triple crown |
| June 8 | English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria |
| June 9 | Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500 |
| June 9 | Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio |
| June 11 | 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam |
| June 11 | Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews |
| June 14 | Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia |
| June 14 | Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas |
| June 16 | 1st U.S. federally owned airport opened Washington D.C. |
| June 18 | Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 18 | Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany |
| June 19 | Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal |
| June 19 | Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani |
| June 19 | U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act |
| June 20 | German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on U.S. battleship Texas |
| June 21 | 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria |
| June 21 | After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns |
| June 22 | Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation |
| June 22 | Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states |
| June 22 | Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II |
| June 22 | Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk" |
| June 23 | Germany occupies Telz Lithuana |
| June 24 | Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated |
| June 24 | Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas |
| June 25 | Fair Employment Practices Commission established |
| June 25 | Finland declares war on Soviet Union |
| June 25 | Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination |
| June 25 | Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there |
| June 25 | Russian counter attack at Rovno |
| June 26 | Finland enters WW II against Russia |
| June 26 | Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno |
| June 27 | Bialystok Poland falls to Germany |
| June 27 | Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam |
| June 28 | German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev |
| June 28 | German troops occupy Galicia Poland |
| June 29 | DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record |
| June 30 | 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month |
| June 30 | Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence |
| July 1 | 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) and WCBW (CBS), New York City |
| July 1 | Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial |
| July 1 | Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak |
| July 1 | WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 1 | WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in New York City (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| July 2 | DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56) |
| July 2 | Earthquake hits Palestine |
| July 2 | Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) |
| July 2 | Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London |
| July 4 | Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin |
| July 4 | Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead |
| July 4 | Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes |
| July 5 | German occupiers disband political parties |
| July 6 | New York Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield |
| July 7 | Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania |
| July 7 | U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion |
| July 8 | 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
| July 8 | All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star |
| July 11 | German troops attack Dnjepr |
| July 13 | 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver |
| July 13 | Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder |
| July 14 | 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp |
| July 14 | Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria |
| July 14 | Jam rationed in Holland |
| July 15 | Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures, Penicillin |
| July 16 | 100 degrees F (38 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash |
| July 16 | Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game |
| July 17 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland |
| July 18 | SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia |
| July 19 | 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated |
| July 19 | BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven |
| July 19 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign |
| July 19 | President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee |
| July 20 | Yankees beat Tigers 12-6 in 17 |
| July 21 | 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine |
| July 21 | Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp |
| July 24 | Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China |
| July 24 | Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania |
| July 24 | Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game |
| July 25 | Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan |
| July 25 | Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory) |
| July 26 | 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague |
| July 26 | "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers |
| July 26 | U.S. embargo on oil-export to Japan |
| July 27 | 103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
| July 27 | German army enters Ukraine |
| July 27 | Japanese forces land in Indo-China |
| July 30 | German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands |
| July 31 | U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton |
| August 1 | Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
| August 1 | New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yankees 9, St. L 0) |
| August 2 | German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
| August 2 | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
| August 3 | Benzine sales limited in U.S. |
| August 3 | Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base |
| August 3 | Gas sales limited in U.S. |
| August 3 | German troops conquer Roslavl U.S.S.R. |
| August 4 | Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd) |
| August 4 | Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US |
| August 6 | Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning |
| August 7 | 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania |
| August 8 | 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
| August 9 | Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR |
| August 10 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland |
| August 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter |
| August 12 | French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
| August 13 | Red army evacuates Smolensk |
| August 14 | Atlantic Charter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill |
| August 15 | Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
| August 17 | German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan |
| August 18 | Concentration camp Amersfoort opens |
| August 18 | Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
| August 19 | Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout |
| August 20 | Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males |
| August 22 | Nazi troops reach Lenningrad |
| August 25 | English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
| August 25 | German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
| August 27 | Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi |
| August 28 | 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203) |
| August 28 | Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves |
| August 29 | German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children |
| August 30 | Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II |
| August 30 | St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0 |
| August 31 | 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton) |
| August 31 | Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC |
| September 1 | Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star |
| September 2 | Academy copyrights Oscar statuette |
| September 3 | 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) |
| September 3 | KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 4 | New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season) |
| September 4 | U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
| September 4 | Yankees beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant |
| September 6 | 55th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
| September 6 | 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| September 6 | All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
| September 6 | Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto |
| September 7 | 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| September 8 | Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins |
| September 8 | Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated |
| September 11 | Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels |
| September 11 | Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II |
| September 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight |
| September 12 | 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) |
| September 15 | Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania |
| September 16 | German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine |
| September 16 | Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed |
| September 16 | Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto |
| September 17 | Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4 |
| September 19 | 1st meeting of partizans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
| September 19 | German army conquerors Kiev |
| September 19 | Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars |
| September 21 | U.S. launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry" |
| September 22 | British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro |
| September 23 | General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London |
| September 23 | German air raid on Russian naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) |
| September 24 | 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter |
| September 24 | Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev |
| September 25 | Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years |
| September 26 | Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev |
| September 27 | 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched |
| September 28 | Phillies lose club record 111th game |
| September 28 | Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg |
| September 29 | Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 29 | Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade |
| September 29 | Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union |
| September 30 | 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine |
| September 30 | 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) |
| September 30 | German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins |
| October 1 | D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow |
| October 1 | H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in New York City |
| October 1 | Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series |
| October 2 | 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo |
| October 2 | Germans launch attack on Moscow |
| October 3 | Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again" |
| October 3 | All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS |
| October 3 | Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris |
| October 5 | Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4 |
| October 6 | German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R. |
| October 6 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series |
| October 7 | German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. |
| October 8 | Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built |
| October 10 | German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney |
| October 11 | 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front |
| October 12 | Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow |
| October 14 | 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga |
| October 15 | 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe |
| October 15 | Japan Tojo regime forms |
| October 15 | Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death |
| October 16 | Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow |
| October 16 | "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers |
| October 16 | Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia |
| October 17 | 1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland |
| October 18 | Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo |
| October 19 | 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico |
| October 20 | Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia |
| October 22 | Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in New York City |
| October 23 | Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released |
| October 25 | 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine |
| October 25 | Germany attacks Moscow |
| October 25 | Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia |
| October 26 | 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia |
| October 26 | U.S. savings bonds go on sale |
| October 27 | Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan |
| October 27 | Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade |
| October 29 | Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in New York City |
| October 30 | USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war |
| October 31 | 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
| October 31 | Mount Rushmore is completed |
| October 31 | Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James |
| November 1 | Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia |
| November 1 | Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor |
| November 2 | German troops occupy Rostov |
| November 3 | Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails |
| November 5 | Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor |
| November 6 | Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine |
| November 6 | Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor |
| November 6 | USA lends Soviet Union $1 million |
| November 7 | British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim and Ruhrgebied |
| November 9 | Hitler threatens bishop Clemens earl von Galen of Munster |
| November 11 | Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis |
| November 12 | Germany's drive to take Moscow halted |
| November 12 | WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in New York City swaps call letters |
| November 13 | British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean |
| November 13 | German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic |
| November 14 | Governor-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refugees |
| November 15 | Cow Palace opens in San Francisco |
| November 15 | Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier |
| November 16 | German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
| November 17 | Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| November 18 | British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa |
| November 18 | Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in New York City |
| November 18 | Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia |
| November 20 | Admiral Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note |
| November 20 | German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia |
| November 22 | British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis |
| November 22 | New Zealand troops conquer Ft. Capuzzo Libya |
| November 23 | German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow |
| November 24 | Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar |
| November 24 | "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated |
| November 24 | U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine |
| November 25 | German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality) |
| November 25 | Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager |
| November 26 | Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro |
| November 26 | British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs |
| November 26 | British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda |
| November 26 | Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor |
| November 26 | Lebanon gains independence from France |
| November 27 | British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk |
| November 27 | Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP |
| November 27 | U.S.S.R. begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat |
| November 28 | German troops vacate Rostov |
| November 29 | 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16 |
| November 29 | Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet |
| November 30 | 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run |
| November 30 | 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
| November 30 | Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano |
| December 1 | British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python |
| December 1 | Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war |
| December 1 | Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years |
| December 1 | U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes |
| December 2 | Largest roller skating rink (outside of New York City) opens in Peekskill NY |
| December 2 | Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul |
| December 2 | New York Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry |
| December 2 | Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor |
| December 3 | Hitler views Poltava Ukraine |
| December 4 | Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts |
| December 5 | Football Writers Association of America organized |
| December 5 | Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in New York City |
| December 5 | Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army |
| December 5 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved |
| December 5 | U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor |
| December 6 | Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore |
| December 6 | King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels |
| December 6 | New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens |
| December 7 | 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) |
| December 7 | Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon |
| December 7 | Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
| December 7 | German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
| December 7 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a date that will live in infamy |
| December 7 | Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps |
| December 8 | Destruction Camp Chelmo opens |
| December 8 | London: Dutch government declares Japan the war |
| December 8 | Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
| December 8 | SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM |
| December 8 | U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II |
| December 9 | 1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines |
| December 9 | 300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ |
| December 9 | 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) |
| December 9 | China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy |
| December 9 | Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" |
| December 9 | Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed |
| December 10 | British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore |
| December 10 | Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines |
| December 10 | Japanese troops overrun Guam |
| December 11 | Dutch government in London declares war on Italy |
| December 11 | Germany and Italy declare war on US |
| December 11 | Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players and $50,000 |
| December 11 | Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) |
| December 11 | Japanese occupy Guam |
| December 12 | European reservists on Java mobilizes |
| December 12 | German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
| December 12 | Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
| December 13 | German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union |
| December 13 | Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die |
| December 13 | U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal |
| December 14 | 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14 |
| December 14 | Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York |
| December 14 | U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea |
| December 15 | Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
| December 15 | German submarine U-127 sinks |
| December 15 | Nazi's transfers 100 Czechoslovakian citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint |
| December 15 | North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
| December 15 | USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship |
| December 16 | Sarawak occupied by Japanese |
| December 17 | Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor |
| December 17 | German submarine U-31 sunk |
| December 17 | German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
| December 18 | German submarine U-434 sinks |
| December 18 | Japanse troops land on Hong Kong |
| December 19 | German submarine U-574 sinks |
| December 19 | Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
| December 19 | U.S. Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II |
| December 20 | Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon |
| December 20 | Japanese troops lands on Mindanao |
| December 21 | Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point |
| December 21 | Chicago bears win the NFL championship |
| December 21 | David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres |
| December 21 | German submarine U-567 sinks |
| December 21 | Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears) |
| December 22 | Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
| December 22 | Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
| December 22 | Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference |
| December 23 | American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese |
| December 23 | British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
| December 23 | Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma |
| December 24 | 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan |
| December 25 | Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong |
| December 25 | Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan |
| December 26 | Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" |
| December 27 | Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" |
| December 27 | Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony |
| December 28 | State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia |
| December 30 | Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach |
| December 30 | Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer |
| December 30 | Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization |
| December 30 | Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament |
| December 31 | Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young |
