| January 1 | Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat, Oregon - 20, Duke - 16 |
| January 1 | U.S. and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis |
| January 2 | 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace |
| January 2 | German troops in Bardia surrender |
| January 2 | Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
| January 3 | American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms |
| January 4 | NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24 |
| January 4 | Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida |
| January 4 | Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame |
| January 5 | 55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
| January 6 | 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" |
| January 6 | Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia |
| January 7 | WW II siege of Bataan starts |
| January 9 | Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 9 | U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created |
| January 10 | Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies |
| January 11 | -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record) |
| January 11 | Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
| January 12 | British troops reconquer Sollum |
| January 12 | Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender |
| January 12 | National War Labor Board created |
| January 13 | Allied Conference for war trials |
| January 13 | German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast |
| January 13 | Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies |
| January 13 | Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration |
| January 14 | Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo |
| January 15 | Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II |
| January 15 | Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II |
| January 16 | William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army |
| January 18 | Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman |
| January 19 | Japanese forces invade Burma |
| January 19 | Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers |
| January 20 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
| January 20 | Japanese invade Burma |
| January 20 | Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling for extermination of Europe's Jews |
| January 21 | Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal |
| January 21 | Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" |
| January 21 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
| January 21 | Tito's partisans occupy Foca |
| January 22 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
| January 22 | Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06) |
| January 23 | Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain |
| January 23 | Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army |
| January 24 | Musical "Star and Garter," premieres in New York City |
| January 25 | Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus |
| January 26 | 1st U.S. force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland |
| January 26 | Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel |
| January 27 | -19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850 |
| January 28 | General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine |
| January 28 | German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
| January 29 | 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC |
| January 29 | German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi |
| January 29 | Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) |
| January 30 | Japanese troops land on Ambon |
| January 31 | 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton) |
| February 1 | 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms |
| February 2 | Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans |
| February 2 | U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production |
| February 3 | 1st Japanese air raid on Java |
| February 3 | Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942 |
| February 4 | Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II |
| February 5 | Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yankees for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore |
| February 5 | "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City |
| February 7 | 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") |
| February 8 | Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort |
| February 8 | Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles |
| February 9 | Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S. |
| February 9 | Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
| February 9 | Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" |
| February 10 | Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" |
| February 11 | "Archie" comic book debuts |
| February 12 | 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
| February 13 | Hitler's Operation Seelowe (invasion of England) cancelled |
| February 14 | Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra |
| February 14 | Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
| February 15 | German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery |
| February 15 | Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
| February 15 | Singapore surrenders to Japanese |
| February 16 | German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery |
| February 18 | Japanese troop land on Bali |
| February 19 | About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin |
| February 19 | Bill Longson beats Managoff and Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ |
| February 19 | Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber |
| February 19 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans |
| February 19 | Japanese troops land on Timor |
| February 19 | New York Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games |
| February 19 | Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" |
| February 20 | Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers |
| February 21 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
| February 21 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht |
| February 23 | Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California |
| February 24 | Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) |
| February 26 | German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb |
| February 26 | Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies |
| February 26 | Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" |
| February 26 | WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" |
| February 27 | 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| February 27 | Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese |
| February 27 | J. S. Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun |
| February 28 | 1st weapon drop on Netherlands |
| February 28 | Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies |
| February 28 | Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit |
| March 1 | 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat |
| March 1 | Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough |
| March 1 | J. Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago |
| March 1 | Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
| March 1 | Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews |
| March 1 | Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| March 2 | 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win |
| March 2 | Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon |
| March 3 | 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane |
| March 5 | Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| March 5 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia |
| March 5 | Japanese troop march into Batavia |
| March 7 | 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta |
| March 7 | 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee |
| March 8 | Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma |
| March 8 | KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies |
| March 9 | Construction of the Alaska Highway began |
| March 11 | 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp |
| March 11 | General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia |
| March 11 | Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra |
| March 12 | British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| March 13 | Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army |
| March 17 | Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported |
| March 17 | General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander |
| March 18 | 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out |
| March 18 | Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters |
| March 19 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders men between 45 and 64 to register for non military duty |
| March 19 | Thoroughbred Racing Association of U.S. formed in Chicago |
| March 20 | Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia |
| March 20 | General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" |
| March 20 | Major German assault on Malta |
| March 21 | Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk |
| March 21 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| March 22 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| March 23 | 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported |
| March 23 | Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean |
| March 23 | U.S. move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers |
| March 25 | 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp |
| March 26 | 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps |
| March 26 | 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec |
| March 26 | 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pennsylvania, kills 21 |
| March 26 | German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel |
| March 27 | Allies raid German submarine base in St. Nazaire |
| March 27 | Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1 hour forward |
| March 27 | Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York City) |
| March 28 | 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck |
| March 28 | 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 |
| March 28 | British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire |
| March 28 | Raid on lock/dock St. Nazaire |
| March 29 | British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea |
| March 29 | British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die |
| March 29 | German submarine U-585 sinks |
| March 30 | 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau |
| March 30 | SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp |
| April 1 | Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor |
| April 1 | Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 |
| April 7 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| April 8 | A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in New York City |
| April 9 | Battle of Bataan, U.S. and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan |
| April 10 | Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland |
| April 11 | Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized |
| April 12 | 9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 12 | Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan |
| April 14 | Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of U.S. east coast |
| April 15 | George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta |
| April 16 | Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship |
| April 16 | King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta |
| April 17 | 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg |
| April 17 | Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp |
| April 18 | James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities |
| April 18 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| April 18 | "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts |
| April 19 | 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2 |
| April 20 | German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach |
| April 20 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| April 23 | 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins |
| April 23 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| April 24 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| April 25 | Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
| April 26 | Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria |
| April 26 | Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
| April 27 | Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars |
| April 27 | Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300 |
| April 28 | Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast |
| April 28 | "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll |
| April 29 | Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road |
| April 29 | Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France |
| April 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 and 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 U.S. |
| 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 | U.S. begins rationing sugar during WW II |
| May 6 | Corregidor and 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 | 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund |
| May 8 | Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea |
| May 8 | German summer offensive opens in Crimea |
| May 9 | 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57 |
| May 11 | Japanese troops conquer Kalewa |
| 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 home runs in a game |
| May 14 | U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms |
| May 15 | Gasoline 1st rationed in U.S. (17 Eastern States) |
| May 15 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands 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 | New York City ends night baseball games for rest of WW II |
| May 19 | Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson and Wagner) |
| May 20 | U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve |
| May 21 | Great Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia |
| May 22 | Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan |
| 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 Czechoslovakians murdered |
| May 27 | Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
| May 27 | Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague |
| May 28 | 1,800 Czechoslovakians 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 |
| May 30 | U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor |
| May 31 | 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| May 31 | Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury |
| June 2 | Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator |
| June 3 | Battle of Midway Island begins |
| June 4 | Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II |
| June 4 | Capitol Record Co. opens for business |
| June 4 | USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island |
| June 5 | British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie |
| June 5 | Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 |
| June 5 | USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania |
| June 6 | 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray |
| June 6 | 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 |
| June 6 | Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway |
| June 6 | Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians |
| June 7 | Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan |
| June 7 | Germany Armys march into Sebastopol |
| June 7 | Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands |
| June 8 | Bing Cosby records "Silent Night" |
| June 9 | Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government |
| June 9 | German-Netherlands press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe |
| June 9 | Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia |
| June 10 | Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173 |
| June 10 | Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich |
| June 11 | German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
| June 11 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II |
| June 12 | Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam |
| June 12 | Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples |
| June 12 | Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City |
| June 13 | 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km |
| June 13 | Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head |
| June 13 | Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island |
| June 13 | OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms |
| June 14 | 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| June 14 | Anne Frank begins her diary |
| June 14 | French government of Reynaud resigns |
| June 14 | Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released |
| June 17 | 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) |
| June 18 | Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m |
| June 19 | Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits |
| June 20 | Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews |
| June 20 | German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
| June 21 | 129 degrees F (54 degrees C), Tirat Zevi, Israel |
| June 21 | Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss |
| June 21 | President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. |
| June 21 | Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa |
| June 21 | Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m) |
| June 22 | Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon |
| June 22 | Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms |
| June 24 | Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered |
| June 24 | Africa Corps occupy Egypt |
| June 25 | British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London |
| June 25 | British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
| June 25 | General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe |
| June 26 | German assault on British at Mersa Matruh |
| June 27 | FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off New York's Long Island |
| June 27 | PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk |
| June 28 | Colonel General Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj |
| June 28 | Dumont TV network begins (WABD New York) |
| June 29 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, premieres |
| June 30 | 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month |
| June 30 | Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine |
| June 30 | U.S. bombs Celebes and Timor |
| June 30 | U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation |
| July 1 | German troops conquer Sebastopol |
| July 3 | Germany troop march into Sebastopol |
| July 3 | Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine |
| July 4 | 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) |
| July 4 | U.S. air offensive against nazi-Germany begins |
| July 5 | 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11 |
| July 5 | Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada |
| July 6 | 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York |
| July 6 | Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam |
| July 6 | Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj |
| July 7 | Germany troop march into Woronezj |
| July 7 | military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0 |
| July 9 | Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family and 4 other Jews |
| July 10 | Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp |
| July 10 | Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union |
| July 13 | 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis |
| July 13 | German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages |
| July 13 | SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland |
| July 14 | 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork |
| July 14 | Riots against Jews in Amsterdam |
| July 15 | 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz |
| July 15 | Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps" |
| July 16 | French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
| July 16 | Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp |
| July 17 | 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15 |
| July 17 | Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) |
| July 17 | Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| July 18 | 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens |
| July 18 | Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight |
| July 19 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in US |
| July 19 | German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague |
| July 20 | 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training |
| July 20 | Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8 |
| July 20 | Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress |
| July 20 | Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover |
| July 20 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines |
| July 21 | 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia |
| July 22 | 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks |
| July 22 | Gasoline rationing using coupons begins |
| July 22 | Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp |
| July 23 | German troops conquer Rostow |
| July 23 | Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad |
| July 24 | Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City |
| July 25 | German troops occupy Rostov |
| July 25 | German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
| July 26 | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| July 26 | RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism |
| July 28 | Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto |
| July 28 | Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland |
| July 29 | Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd |
| July 30 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) |
| July 30 | German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands |
| July 30 | German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| July 31 | German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
| July 31 | U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton |
| August 1 | Deurne soccer team forms |
| August 1 | German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
| August 1 | Race riots in Harlem, New York |
| August 2 | 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp |
| August 2 | Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo |
| August 4 | 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz |
| August 4 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo |
| August 4 | Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev |
| August 4 | German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
| August 5 | British government cancels agreement of Munich |
| August 5 | German troops cross Kuban River |
| August 6 | Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210 |
| August 6 | Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant |
| August 6 | Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder" |
| August 6 | Riots by Dutch Jews |
| August 7 | 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands |
| August 7 | Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway |
| August 7 | Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 8 | 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. |
| August 8 | Dianthus sinks U-379 |
| August 8 | "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein |
| August 8 | Russian anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko |
| August 9 | 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland |
| August 9 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad |
| August 9 | Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress |
| August 9 | Vice-Admiral Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island |
| August 10 | General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa |
| August 11 | 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium |
| August 11 | British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed and sinks |
| August 11 | Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar |
| August 12 | British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin |
| August 12 | German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
| August 12 | Lieutenant-general Montgomery arrives in Cairo |
| August 14 | Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa |
| August 15 | 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel |
| August 16 | Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
| August 17 | 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces |
| August 17 | 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe |
| August 17 | Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet |
| August 17 | Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 17 | U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France |
| August 18 | Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese |
| August 19 | 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is |
| August 19 | 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France |
| August 19 | Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab |
| August 19 | General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad |
| August 20 | Dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco |
| August 21 | Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus |
| August 21 | Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 22 | Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy |
| August 23 | 1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal |
| August 23 | Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) |
| August 23 | British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo |
| August 23 | Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief |
| August 24 | Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands |
| August 24 | Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 25 | SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht, Netherlands |
| August 26 | 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France |
| August 26 | Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay |
| August 26 | Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow |
| August 26 | Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 27 | Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy |
| August 28 | 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100) |
| August 28 | Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2) |
| August 28 | Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 30 | Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg |
| August 31 | Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault |
| August 31 | U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton) |
| September 1 | Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans |
| September 1 | German troops land on Taman peninsula |
| September 2 | German troops enter Stalingrad |
| September 4 | Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| September 5 | Battle at Alam Halfa ends |
| September 5 | British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen |
| September 6 | 56th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
| September 6 | Czechoslovakian marathon runner Oskar Haks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| September 7 | 62nd U.S. Mens Tennis: F Schroeder, Jr. beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62) |
| September 7 | German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle |
| September 7 | Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| September 9 | Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia |
| September 9 | Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon |
| September 10 | British troops lands on Madagascar |
| September 10 | RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf |
| September 11 | Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| September 12 | Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal |
| September 12 | Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes |
| September 13 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| September 13 | Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning |
| September 13 | German forces attack Stalingrad |
| September 14 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| September 14 | German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
| September 14 | Yankees clinch pennant #13 |
| September 15 | U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal |
| September 16 | Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled |
| September 18 | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service |
| September 20 | Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m |
| September 21 | 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris |
| September 21 | Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| September 22 | Meulenberg robs of church bells |
| September 23 | Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions |
| September 23 | Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad |
| September 23 | Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| September 27 | Heavy German assault in Stalingrad |
| September 27 | New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down |
| September 27 | Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general |
| September 27 | St. Louis Cardinals win NL pennant on last day of season |
| September 28 | Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad |
| September 28 | NY Americans NHL team folded |
| September 29 | 32 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
| September 29 | Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich |
| September 30 | 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) |
| September 30 | Admiral Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map |
| September 30 | SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period |
| October 1 | Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight |
| October 1 | Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing |
| October 2 | 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago |
| October 2 | "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 |
| October 3 | Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization |
| October 3 | Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) |
| October 3 | New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season |
| October 4 | German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad |
| October 5 | 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred |
| October 5 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series |
| October 6 | Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram |
| October 7 | 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad |
| October 7 | Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Netherlands) |
| October 7 | Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City |
| October 7 | U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations |
| October 7 | Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ |
| October 8 | Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) |
| October 10 | 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt |
| October 12 | Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division |
| October 12 | U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance |
| October 14 | Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution |
| October 14 | German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed |
| October 14 | Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
| October 15 | German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die |
| October 16 | Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in New York City |
| October 16 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India |
| October 16 | National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services |
| October 18 | Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed |
| October 20 | "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations |
| October 22 | 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland |
| October 22 | U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria |
| October 23 | 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk |
| October 23 | During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt |
| October 23 | German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad |
| October 24 | 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry |
| October 25 | 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive |
| October 25 | Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins |
| October 25 | Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa |
| October 26 | 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
| October 26 | 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough |
| October 26 | Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes |
| October 27 | 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance |
| October 27 | U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz |
| October 28 | 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery |
| October 28 | Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) |
| October 29 | 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault |
| October 29 | Alaska highway completed |
| October 29 | Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers |
| October 29 | Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union |
| October 30 | 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault |
| October 30 | U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea |
| October 31 | 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton) |
| October 31 | 9th day in battle at El Alamein |
| November 1 | 10th day of battle at El Alamein |
| November 1 | Vice-Admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief |
| November 2 | 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir |
| November 2 | Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II) |
| November 3 | 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault |
| November 3 | Despite Ted Williams wins Triple Crown, Yankees Joe Gordon wins AL MVP |
| November 3 | Mort Cooper wins NL MVP |
| November 3 | William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
| November 4 | 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing |
| November 5 | Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris |
| November 5 | Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission |
| November 6 | Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews |
| November 6 | Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai |
| November 7 | 1st U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French |
| November 7 | Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) |
| November 8 | Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca) |
| November 8 | Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall |
| November 8 | Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr |
| November 8 | Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US |
| November 9 | German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier |
| November 9 | Transport nr 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| November 10 | Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in New York City |
| November 10 | U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria |
| November 10 | U.S. troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco |
| November 11 | 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz |
| November 11 | During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France |
| November 11 | Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David |
| November 11 | Last German offensive in Stalingrad |
| November 11 | Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java |
| November 11 | Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany |
| November 12 | In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began |
| November 13 | Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal |
| November 13 | Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 |
| November 14 | Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender |
| November 16 | Assault of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed |
| November 18 | Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in New York City |
| November 19 | Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" |
| November 19 | Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front |
| November 20 | 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski |
| November 20 | British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya |
| November 20 | Hitler names Field Marshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding |
| November 20 | NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over |
| November 20 | Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines |
| November 21 | Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties" |
| November 22 | General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov |
| November 22 | Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man |
| November 23 | 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders |
| November 23 | Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized |
| November 23 | Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender |
| November 23 | German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad |
| November 23 | Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia |
| November 23 | Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed |
| November 23 | Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don |
| November 23 | Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days |
| November 24 | Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk |
| November 24 | French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
| November 25 | National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms |
| November 26 | Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms |
| November 26 | "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, New York City |
| November 27 | Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
| November 27 | French Navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them |
| November 27 | Tito appoints Anti fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia |
| November 28 | 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston |
| November 28 | Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston Mass) |
| November 29 | U.S. rations coffee during WWII |
| November 30 | 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) |
| November 30 | 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5 |
| November 30 | Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of New York Giants minor league system |
| November 30 | German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama |
| December 1 | Gasoline rationed in US |
| December 2 | 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago |
| December 4 | 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) |
| December 4 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration |
| December 4 | U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II |
| December 4 | Works Progress Administration liquidated |
| December 5 | CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto |
| December 5 | Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work |
| December 5 | West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland |
| December 6 | Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth |
| December 6 | RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) |
| December 8 | 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB) |
| December 10 | Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people" |
| December 10 | North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim |
| December 11 | Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
| December 12 | German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
| December 13 | Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
| December 13 | Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title |
| December 15 | Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs |
| December 16 | Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan |
| December 17 | Allies in London sentence German war criminals |
| December 20 | 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta |
| December 21 | U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal |
| December 23 | Allies air attack on Den Helder |
| December 24 | 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany |
| December 24 | Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk |
| December 25 | Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death |
| December 25 | British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter |
| December 25 | Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad |
| December 27 | 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use |
| December 27 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14 |
| December 28 | Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus |
| December 28 | Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times |
| December 31 | 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton) |
| December 31 | Battle in Barents Sea |
| December 31 | Potatoes rationed in Holland |
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