| January 1 | Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lt-colonel |
| January 3 | 1st missing persons telecast (New York City) |
| January 3 | Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
| January 4 | Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers" |
| January 5 | Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II |
| January 5 | William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces |
| January 9 | Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars |
| January 10 | 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco |
| January 10 | Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad |
| January 11 | U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China |
| January 12 | Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat and soy meal) |
| January 13 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca |
| January 13 | Hitler declares "Total War" |
| January 13 | Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov |
| January 13 | U.S. infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal |
| January 14 | Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game |
| January 14 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II |
| January 14 | Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw |
| January 15 | 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught |
| January 15 | World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed |
| January 16 | 1st U.S. air raid on Ambon |
| January 16 | -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record) |
| January 16 | German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow |
| January 16 | Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad |
| January 17 | Tin Can Drive Day |
| January 18 | Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis |
| January 18 | Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts |
| January 18 | Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad |
| January 18 | U.S. rations bread and metal |
| January 18 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
| January 19 | Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily |
| January 20 | Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52 degrees F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16 degrees F |
| January 20 | Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian |
| January 21 | Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad |
| January 21 | Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk |
| January 21 | Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet |
| January 22 | 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
| January 22 | Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach |
| January 22 | Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th |
| January 22 | Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD |
| January 23 | 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
| January 23 | British 8th army marches into Tripoli |
| January 23 | Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| January 23 | Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured |
| January 24 | Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death |
| January 24 | Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| January 27 | 1st U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) |
| January 28 | Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals |
| January 28 | Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game |
| January 29 | New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal |
| January 29 | Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in New York City |
| January 30 | 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin |
| January 30 | German assault on French in Tunisia |
| January 30 | German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands |
| January 30 | Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-Field Marshal |
| January 30 | Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing |
| January 30 | USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean |
| January 31 | 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton) |
| January 31 | Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan |
| January 31 | General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad |
| February 1 | German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
| February 1 | Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands) |
| February 2 | Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army |
| February 2 | Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest |
| February 2 | German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II |
| February 3 | 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others |
| February 4 | Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich |
| February 5 | Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt |
| February 5 | Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission |
| February 6 | 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down |
| February 6 | Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade" |
| February 7 | Shoe rationing begins in U.S. (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) |
| February 8 | Red Army recaptures Kursk |
| February 9 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
| February 9 | German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
| February 9 | Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle |
| February 9 | Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
| February 9 | NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears |
| February 10 | 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
| February 10 | "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination |
| February 10 | Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
| February 11 | General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe |
| February 11 | Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| February 12 | General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa |
| February 13 | German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front |
| February 13 | Women's Marine Corps created |
| February 14 | German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
| February 14 | Soviets recapture Rostov |
| February 15 | Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid |
| February 16 | -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) |
| February 16 | British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia |
| February 16 | Red army conquers Kharkov |
| February 16 | Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22 |
| February 16 | Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa |
| February 17 | Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews |
| February 17 | General-major Bradley flies to Washington D.C. |
| February 17 | Hitler visits Field Marshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje |
| February 17 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army |
| February 18 | 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" |
| February 18 | Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart |
| February 18 | Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis |
| February 18 | William D. Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies |
| February 19 | German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia |
| February 20 | Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia |
| February 20 | New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico) |
| February 20 | Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League |
| February 21 | Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews |
| February 21 | German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia |
| February 23 | German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia |
| February 23 | Major General Bradley arrives in Dakar and Marrakesh |
| February 24 | General-major Bradley flies to Algiers |
| February 24 | Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II |
| February 25 | Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front |
| February 26 | German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
| February 28 | 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month |
| February 28 | "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan |
| March 1 | Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided |
| March 2 | 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp |
| March 2 | Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win |
| March 3 | Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die |
| March 3 | F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in New York City |
| March 3 | U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea |
| March 4 | Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
| March 5 | Anti fascist strikes in Italy |
| March 5 | RAF bombs Essen Germany |
| March 6 | Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
| March 6 | Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers |
| March 7 | General-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia |
| March 8 | 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg |
| March 8 | Limited gambling legalized in Mexico |
| March 8 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| March 8 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn |
| March 9 | Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown |
| March 9 | Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps |
| March 11 | Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands |
| March 12 | Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
| March 13 | Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata) |
| March 13 | Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
| March 13 | Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) |
| March 15 | Allied reconnaissance flight over Java |
| March 15 | Red Army evacuates Kharkov |
| March 16 | Elin K (No) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed and sinks |
| March 17 | Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks |
| March 17 | F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in New York City |
| March 18 | James Oglethorpe (U.S.) and Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed and sinks |
| March 18 | Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
| March 19 | Airship Canadian Star torpedoed and sinks |
| March 20 | British offensive against Mareth-line |
| March 20 | German U-384 bombed and sinks |
| March 21 | Assassination attempt on Hitler fails |
| March 21 | British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia |
| March 22 | Dutch work week extended to 54 hour |
| March 22 | Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium |
| March 22 | SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children |
| March 23 | German counter attack on U.S. lines in Tunisia |
| March 25 | 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration |
| March 25 | Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio |
| March 26 | Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean |
| March 26 | Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal |
| March 27 | Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau |
| March 27 | Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio |
| March 27 | U.S. begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia |
| March 29 | Meat rationed in U.S., 784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's |
| March 29 | Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II |
| March 30 | 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34 |
| March 30 | British 1st army recaptures Sejenane |
| March 30 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in New York City |
| March 31 | U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 |
| April 3 | Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested |
| April 5 | Allies bomb Mortsel |
| April 5 | Japanese troops conquer Indin |
| April 5 | Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days |
| April 6 | British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II |
| April 6 | British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
| April 6 | Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested |
| April 7 | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg |
| April 7 | British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
| April 7 | Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid |
| April 7 | NFL adopts free substitution rule |
| April 8 | Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma |
| April 8 | Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau |
| April 8 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
| April 10 | 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis |
| April 10 | General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia |
| April 11 | Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft |
| April 12 | Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa |
| April 12 | Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed |
| April 13 | Catholic University Nijegen closes |
| April 13 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial |
| April 13 | Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn |
| April 14 | General Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis |
| April 14 | James Gow and A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in New York City |
| April 15 | Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase |
| April 16 | 40 German bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands, 85 killed |
| April 17 | Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul |
| April 19 | 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8 |
| April 19 | Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto |
| April 19 | Revolt in Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz |
| April 20 | Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg |
| April 22 | German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
| April 22 | RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea |
| April 23 | British and U.S. offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta |
| April 27 | Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland |
| April 27 | Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London |
| April 28 | 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning" |
| April 28 | German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
| April 28 | U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
| April 29 | Dietrich Bonhoffer arrested by nazis |
| April 29 | Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premieres in London |
| April 29 | U.S. 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia |
| April 30 | Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms |
| April 30 | Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry |
| April 30 | Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London |
| May 1 | 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam |
| May 1 | 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 |
| May 1 | Food rationing begins in U.S. |
| May 1 | German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta |
| May 1 | German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes |
| May 1 | Rauter signs unofficial death sentence |
| May 2 | German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia |
| May 3 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) |
| May 3 | Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed |
| May 3 | U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia |
| May 4 | NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier |
| May 5 | Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System |
| May 6 | British 1st army opens assault on Tunis |
| May 7 | British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia |
| May 7 | Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps |
| May 7 | Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched |
| May 7 | U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia |
| May 7 | U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia |
| May 8 | 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4 |
| May 8 | Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" |
| May 9 | 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
| May 9 | Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens |
| May 11 | Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders |
| May 11 | U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured) |
| May 12 | Axis forces in North Africa surrender |
| May 12 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. |
| May 12 | German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
| May 13 | German and Italian forces in Africa surrender |
| May 13 | German occupiers confiscate all radios |
| May 15 | Halifax bombers sinks U-463 |
| May 15 | Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction |
| May 16 | German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
| May 16 | Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting |
| May 16 | RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) |
| May 18 | Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea |
| May 19 | Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews) |
| May 19 | Churchill pledges England's full support to U.S. against Japan |
| May 20 | French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia |
| May 21 | Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators |
| May 22 | 1st jet fighter is tested |
| May 22 | RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" |
| May 22 | Stalin disbands Komintern |
| May 23 | 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund |
| May 23 | In Dr. Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkuhn |
| May 23 | Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus |
| May 24 | Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean |
| May 24 | U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje |
| May 25 | Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers |
| May 25 | Trident conference in Washington D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan) |
| May 26 | 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) |
| May 26 | Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam |
| May 26 | Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa |
| May 27 | French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris |
| May 27 | U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry |
| May 28 | British militia reaches Tito |
| May 29 | Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower) |
| May 29 | Meat and cheese rationed in U.S. |
| May 30 | French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
| May 30 | U.S. troops reconquer Attu Aleutians |
| May 31 | "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio |
| May 31 | Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters |
| June 1 | Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die |
| June 1 | Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game |
| June 2 | 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy |
| June 2 | German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins |
| June 3 | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms |
| June 4 | Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron |
| June 4 | St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter |
| June 5 | 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2 |
| June 5 | German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
| June 9 | U.S. income tax withholding paycheck deductions authorized |
| June 10 | Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime |
| June 11 | British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily |
| June 11 | Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos |
| June 12 | Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos |
| June 15 | Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms |
| June 17 | Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs |
| June 18 | SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau |
| June 19 | NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5) |
| June 19 | "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones and City Slickers peaks at #19 |
| June 20 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded |
| June 20 | Detroit race riot kills 35 |
| June 20 | German round up Jews in Amsterdam |
| June 20 | National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
| June 20 | New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia) |
| June 20 | Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY |
| June 21 | Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead |
| June 22 | WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters |
| June 23 | Dutch artsens protest against nazis |
| June 23 | RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde |
| June 24 | Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg |
| June 25 | Crematory III at Birkenau is finished |
| June 25 | Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians |
| June 27 | Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m) |
| June 27 | Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5) |
| June 29 | Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe |
| June 29 | Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ) |
| June 29 | U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea |
| June 30 | General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping |
| July 1 | "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks |
| July 2 | Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126 |
| July 2 | Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning and beat Yankees 12-0 |
| July 2 | Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane |
| July 3 | Liberator bombers sinks U-628 |
| July 5 | Battle of Gulf of Kula |
| July 5 | Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. begins (6,000 tanks) |
| July 5 | Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye |
| July 5 | U.S. invasion fleet of 96 ships sails to Sicily |
| July 6 | 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed |
| July 6 | U.S. destroyer William D. Porter [Willie Dee] launched |
| July 7 | 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova |
| July 7 | Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk |
| July 7 | Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java |
| July 7 | Liberator bombers sinks U-517 |
| July 8 | 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve |
| July 8 | British air raid sinks U-232 |
| July 8 | NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler |
| July 8 | U.S. invasion fleet passes Bizerta, Tunisia |
| July 9 | 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje |
| July 9 | British air raid sinks U-435 |
| July 10 | 6th day of battle at Kursk |
| July 10 | U.S. and Britain invade Sicily in WW II, Operation Husky |
| July 11 | 7th day of battle at Kursk |
| July 11 | Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily |
| July 11 | U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily |
| July 11 | U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
| July 12 | Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) |
| July 12 | National Committee Freies Deutschland forms |
| July 12 | Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker |
| July 12 | Russian offensive at Orel |
| July 12 | Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die |
| July 13 | 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia |
| July 13 | Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany |
| July 17 | RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde |
| July 18 | British assault on Catania Sicily |
| July 18 | Giants and Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, New York wins, 10-6 |
| July 19 | 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II |
| July 20 | Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island) |
| July 22 | U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily |
| July 23 | Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) |
| July 23 | U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
| July 24 | RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) |
| July 25 | 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched |
| July 25 | Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II |
| July 25 | Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl |
| July 25 | RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam |
| July 26 | 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record) |
| July 26 | Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome |
| July 27 | 772 British bombers attack Hamburg |
| July 28 | Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns |
| July 28 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S. |
| July 29 | 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg |
| July 29 | Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam |
| July 30 | Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) |
| July 30 | U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano |
| July 31 | Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
| August 1 | Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw |
| August 1 | Race riot in Harlem New York City |
| August 1 | Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 |
| August 2 | Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka |
| August 2 | Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands |
| August 2 | RAF bombs Hamburg |
| August 2 | Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 and U-106 |
| August 2 | Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed) |
| August 3 | Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice |
| August 3 | Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire |
| August 4 | British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada |
| August 4 | Russian units reach suburbs of Orel |
| August 4 | USAF bombs Germans in Troina |
| August 5 | Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter |
| August 5 | Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod |
| August 6 | U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
| August 7 | Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
| August 8 | Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec |
| August 8 | U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily |
| August 8 | Vegetables and fruit rationed in Holland |
| August 9 | Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zurich |
| August 10 | Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali |
| August 10 | Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots |
| August 11 | Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov |
| August 11 | Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres |
| August 11 | U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily |
| August 13 | Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
| August 14 | 1st allied air raid on Borneo |
| August 14 | U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina |
| August 15 | Allies land on Kiska Aleutians |
| August 16 | 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) |
| August 16 | Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler |
| August 17 | 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde |
| August 17 | General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies |
| August 17 | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt |
| August 18 | Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with Giants |
| August 18 | Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz |
| August 18 | Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia |
| August 19 | Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle |
| August 19 | U.S. air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen |
| August 21 | Gromyko named U.S.S.R.-ambassador in Washington |
| August 21 | Japan leaves Aleutian Islands |
| August 22 | Soviet troops free Karkov |
| August 23 | Red army recaptures Charkow |
| August 24 | Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game |
| August 25 | 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471) |
| August 25 | German occupiers impose 72-hour work week |
| August 25 | Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia |
| August 25 | Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka |
| August 25 | U.S. forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II |
| August 28 | Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers |
| August 28 | Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso |
| August 29 | Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany |
| August 31 | 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: U.S. assault on Marcus Island |
| August 31 | Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo |
| September 3 | British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) |
| September 3 | General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily |
| September 4 | British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy |
| September 5 | 57th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) |
| September 5 | U.S. airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea |
| September 6 | 63rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) |
| September 6 | Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's |
| September 6 | "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 |
| September 7 | 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| September 7 | Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas) |
| September 8 | General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II |
| September 8 | Lieutenant-general Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily |
| September 8 | New York Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game |
| September 9 | 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
| September 9 | Lieutenant-general Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick |
| September 9 | Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
| September 9 | U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
| September 10 | British 8th army occupies Tarente |
| September 10 | German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City |
| September 10 | Italian fleet anchors at Malta |
| September 10 | Lieutenant-general Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London |
| September 11 | Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno |
| September 11 | Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated |
| September 11 | Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
| September 11 | U.S. and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea |
| September 12 | Free French lands on Corsica |
| September 12 | German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government |
| September 12 | Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso |
| September 13 | Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
| September 13 | German counter attack at Salerno |
| September 13 | Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president |
| September 14 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries |
| September 14 | Yankees clinch pennant #14 |
| September 15 | Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy |
| September 15 | Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens |
| September 15 | Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens |
| September 16 | Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno |
| September 16 | Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny |
| September 17 | Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station |
| September 17 | Red Army recaptures Brjansk |
| September 18 | Cardinals clinch NL pennant |
| September 18 | Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) |
| September 19 | Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record |
| September 19 | Liberator bombers sinks U-341 |
| September 20 | Liberator bombers sinks U-338 |
| September 21 | Arundel (Solomon Island) in U.S. hands |
| September 21 | Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named |
| September 21 | Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov |
| September 21 | Soviet forces reach Dnjepr |
| September 22 | British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz |
| September 22 | Destroyer Itchen torpedoed and sinks |
| September 22 | Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229 |
| September 24 | Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk |
| September 25 | Russian troops liberate Smolensk |
| September 27 | Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples |
| September 27 | Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter |
| September 29 | 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel |
| September 29 | Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice |
| September 29 | German riots at Amsterdam Jews |
| September 29 | Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug |
| September 30 | Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit |
| October 1 | Allied forces captured Naples during WW II |
| October 1 | Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow |
| October 1 | Germans attack Jews in Denmark |
| October 1 | King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples |
| October 2 | Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island |
| October 2 | Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 and 7-6 |
| October 3 | British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy |
| October 3 | Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland |
| October 4 | Corsica freed by Free French |
| October 4 | German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) |
| October 5 | U.S. air raid on Wake |
| October 6 | Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island |
| October 6 | Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution" |
| October 7 | Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in New York City |
| October 8 | Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
| October 10 | Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
| October 10 | U.S. bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths |
| October 11 | New York Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series |
| October 12 | U.S. bombs Rabaul, New Britain |
| October 13 | Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany |
| October 14 | 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland |
| October 14 | Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel) |
| October 14 | Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp |
| October 14 | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 during assault on Schweinfurt |
| October 16 | Anti Jewish riot in Rome |
| October 16 | Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system |
| October 16 | Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz |
| October 16 | U.S. 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol |
| October 17 | Liberators sink U-540 and U-631 |
| October 18 | U.S. bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island |
| October 19 | Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow |
| October 19 | Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert |
| October 19 | Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates New York) |
| October 23 | 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau |
| October 23 | Burma railway opens |
| October 24 | Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting |
| October 25 | Burma railroad completed and opens |
| October 28 | U-220 sinks |
| October 29 | 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 |
| October 30 | Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina |
| October 30 | Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN |
| October 30 | Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about |
| October 31 | Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Brooklyn (48-10) |
| November 1 | Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area |
| November 1 | U.S. troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
| November 2 | Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed |
| November 3 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| November 3 | P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland |
| November 4 | France arrests government of Lebanon |
| November 5 | Vatican bombed |
| November 6 | Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula |
| November 6 | Soviet forces reconquer Kiev |
| November 6 | Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" |
| November 7 | Detroit Lions 0, New York Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL |
| November 11 | Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP |
| November 11 | U.S. air raid on Rabaul |
| November 12 | Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands |
| November 14 | Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs New York Giants (56-7) |
| November 14 | J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN |
| November 18 | 1st U.S. ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated |
| November 18 | 444 British bombers attack Berlin |
| November 18 | U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| November 19 | U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| November 20 | U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| November 20 | U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island |
| November 21 | 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III |
| November 22 | FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan |
| November 22 | Lebanon declares independence from French administration |
| November 22 | RAF begins air bombing of Berlin |
| November 22 | U.S. troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island |
| November 23 | 1st printing of illegal "Warheid" |
| November 23 | British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation |
| November 23 | Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team |
| November 23 | U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japanese |
| November 25 | U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| November 27 | 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14 |
| November 27 | Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin) |
| November 28 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy |
| November 29 | Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia |
| November 29 | U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| November 29 | U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet launched |
| December 1 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) |
| December 2 | 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp |
| December 3 | 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| December 3 | Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins |
| December 3 | Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres |
| December 3 | Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins |
| December 4 | 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu |
| December 4 | Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr. Ribar |
| December 5 | NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves |
| December 7 | Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
| December 8 | John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in New York City |
| December 10 | British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
| December 13 | 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol |
| December 16 | "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200 |
| December 17 | Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| December 19 | Military coup in Bolivia |
| December 20 | "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem |
| December 22 | Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core |
| December 22 | WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters |
| December 23 | 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York |
| December 23 | General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day |
| December 24 | Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces |
| December 24 | Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London |
| December 26 | British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst |
| December 26 | Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
| December 26 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter |
| December 27 | France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government |
| December 27 | German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea |
| December 27 | Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith |
| December 28 | All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed |
| December 30 | Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash |
| December 31 | New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater |
