| January 1 | 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City |
| January 1 | Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
| January 1 | General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army |
| January 2 | 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) |
| January 7 | Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59 |
| January 10 | 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia |
| January 10 | British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma |
| January 11 | Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established |
| January 12 | Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh |
| January 12 | Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd |
| January 14 | Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow |
| January 15 | European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
| January 15 | General Eisenhower arrives in England |
| January 15 | Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die |
| January 16 | General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London |
| January 17 | Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean |
| January 18 | 1st Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts |
| January 20 | RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin |
| January 21 | 447 German bombers attack London |
| January 21 | 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg |
| January 22 | During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy |
| January 23 | Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in New York City |
| January 23 | Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0 |
| January 24 | Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy |
| January 27 | Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves |
| January 27 | Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed |
| January 28 | 683 British bombers attack Berlin |
| January 28 | Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh |
| January 28 | U-271 and U-571 sunk off Ireland |
| January 29 | 285 German bombers attack London |
| January 30 | U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands |
| January 31 | Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June |
| January 31 | U-592 sunk off Ireland |
| January 31 | U.S. forces invade Kwajalein Atoll |
| February 1 | Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy |
| February 1 | U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
| February 2 | 4th U.S. marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands |
| February 2 | Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
| February 2 | Baseball meets in New York City to discuss postwar action |
| February 2 | Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in New York City |
| February 4 | Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris |
| February 4 | U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
| February 5 | 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin |
| February 7 | Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records |
| February 7 | Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy |
| February 8 | 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin |
| February 8 | U-762 sunk off Ireland |
| February 9 | U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
| February 10 | Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
| February 10 | U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland |
| February 11 | German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy |
| February 11 | U-424 sunk off Ireland |
| February 12 | Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race |
| February 14 | Anti-Japanese revolt on Java |
| February 14 | Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing |
| February 15 | 891 British bombers attack Berlin |
| February 15 | Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins |
| February 17 | Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; U.S. victory on Feb 22 |
| February 17 | U.S. begins night bombing of Truk |
| February 18 | Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested |
| February 18 | Youngest baseball player, Cincinnati Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall |
| February 19 | 823 British bombers attack Berlin |
| February 19 | U-264 sinks off Ireland |
| February 20 | Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers |
| February 20 | U.S. takes Eniwetok Island |
| February 21 | "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only) |
| February 22 | U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die |
| February 24 | Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war |
| February 25 | U.S. 1st Army completes invasion plan |
| February 26 | 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed |
| February 29 | 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death |
| February 29 | U.S. troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands |
| March 1 | Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns |
| March 1 | U-358 sinks in Atlantic |
| March 2 | 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win |
| March 2 | Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy |
| March 3 | 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
| March 4 | 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin |
| March 4 | Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
| March 5 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony |
| March 6 | USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin |
| March 7 | Japans begins offensive in Burma |
| March 8 | U.S. resumes bombing Berlin |
| March 11 | Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested |
| March 13 | U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
| March 15 | Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing |
| March 16 | Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death |
| March 17 | Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke |
| March 18 | 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store |
| March 18 | Nazi Germany occupies Hungary |
| March 19 | Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London |
| March 20 | Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 |
| March 20 | Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes |
| March 21 | General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy |
| March 22 | 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin |
| March 23 | Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die |
| March 23 | Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives |
| March 24 | 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) |
| March 24 | 811 British bombers attack Berlin |
| March 24 | In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians |
| March 25 | RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute |
| March 26 | 705 British bombers attack Essen |
| March 27 | 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| March 27 | 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania |
| March 27 | 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo |
| March 27 | Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno |
| March 28 | 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 |
| March 28 | Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking |
| March 28 | NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry |
| March 30 | 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg |
| March 31 | Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars |
| April 1 | German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed |
| April 1 | Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India |
| April 2 | CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy |
| April 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 8th Symphony, premieres in New York |
| April 2 | Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
| April 3 | British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz |
| April 3 | Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional |
| April 4 | British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
| April 4 | De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists |
| April 5 | 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse |
| April 6 | Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis |
| April 7 | General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan |
| April 9 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae |
| April 10 | "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously |
| April 10 | Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis |
| April 11 | RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague |
| April 12 | Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind," premieres in New York City |
| April 13 | South Carolina rejects black suffrage |
| April 13 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
| April 13 | Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| April 14 | 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz |
| April 14 | Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376 |
| April 14 | General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet |
| April 14 | Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government |
| April 18 | 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4 |
| April 18 | Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in New York City |
| April 19 | Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra |
| April 20 | Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death |
| April 20 | NFL legalizes coaching from bench |
| April 21 | NFL Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3) |
| April 22 | Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea |
| April 22 | Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg |
| April 24 | 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump" |
| April 24 | RAF bombs Munich |
| April 24 | United Negro College Fund incorporates |
| April 25 | United Negro College Fund incorporates |
| April 26 | 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down |
| April 26 | Papandreou government in Greece forms |
| April 27 | Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0 |
| April 28 | Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats |
| April 28 | Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski |
| April 29 | Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague |
| April 30 | New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs |
| April 30 | New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time |
| May 1 | Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight |
| May 1 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) |
| May 1 | Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails |
| May 2 | WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in New York City (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast |
| May 3 | Meat rationing ends in U.S. |
| May 3 | "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens on Broadway |
| May 5 | Gandhi freed from prison |
| May 5 | Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim |
| May 6 | 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2 |
| May 6 | KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO |
| May 7 | German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia |
| May 8 | 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death |
| May 8 | U-575 sinks Asphodel |
| May 9 | Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana |
| May 9 | Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested |
| May 9 | Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness |
| May 9 | Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol |
| May 10 | Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan |
| May 10 | Smith vs. Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal |
| May 11 | Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer |
| May 11 | Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison |
| May 12 | 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen and Brux |
| May 12 | Krim purged of nazi troops |
| May 12 | Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat |
| May 13 | 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2 |
| May 14 | 91 German bombers harass Bristol |
| May 14 | British troops occupy Kohima |
| May 14 | General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler |
| May 15 | 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz |
| May 15 | Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0 |
| May 15 | Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan |
| May 15 | Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne |
| May 16 | 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz |
| May 17 | Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java |
| May 17 | Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma |
| May 17 | General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th |
| May 17 | Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea |
| May 18 | Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans |
| May 18 | Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy |
| May 19 | 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands |
| May 19 | German defense line in Italy collapsed |
| May 20 | U.S. Communist Party dissolves |
| May 21 | Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots" |
| May 23 | British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy |
| May 23 | Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front |
| May 23 | Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead |
| May 23 | Polo Grounds host 1st New York City night game since 1941 |
| May 24 | Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists |
| May 24 | Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark |
| May 25 | Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia |
| May 26 | 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise |
| May 27 | Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks) |
| May 27 | Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China |
| May 27 | Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris |
| May 29 | British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy |
| May 30 | Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| May 31 | Allied breakthrough in Italy |
| June 1 | General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth |
| June 1 | Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots |
| June 2 | Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth |
| June 2 | Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands |
| June 3 | 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 |
| June 3 | Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution |
| June 3 | Nazis pull out of Rome |
| June 4 | 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day |
| June 4 | 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 |
| June 4 | 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
| June 4 | French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
| June 5 | 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure |
| June 5 | 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day |
| June 5 | Allies march into Rome |
| June 5 | General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 |
| June 5 | King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto |
| June 6 | Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion |
| June 6 | D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France |
| June 6 | Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
| June 6 | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor |
| June 6 | U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje |
| June 7 | Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen |
| June 7 | Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler |
| June 8 | 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy |
| June 8 | Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy |
| June 8 | Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested |
| June 8 | General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully |
| June 9 | Russian offensive in Carelia |
| June 10 | Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cincinnati Reds is youngest player in major league |
| June 10 | Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
| June 11 | 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas |
| June 11 | 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in U.S., Cathedral of St. Sava, New York City |
| June 11 | KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail |
| June 12 | 1st V-1 rocket assault on London |
| June 12 | British 12th airborne batallion/13th and 18th Hussars conquer |
| June 12 | British 12th battalion conquers Breville |
| June 12 | Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully |
| June 12 | U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy |
| June 13 | German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy |
| June 14 | 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan |
| June 14 | General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France |
| June 15 | U.S. forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific |
| June 16 | Iceland adopts constitution |
| June 16 | King Edward VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy |
| June 16 | U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan |
| June 17 | French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
| June 17 | Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons |
| June 17 | Iceland declares independence from Denmark at Thingvallir, Iceland |
| June 17 | Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London |
| June 18 | Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris |
| June 19 | Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down |
| June 19 | French troops free Elba |
| June 19 | Heavy air raid on U.S. fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot" |
| June 19 | Japanese troops conquer Changsha China |
| June 20 | Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
| June 20 | Heavy storm hits the Channel |
| June 20 | Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz |
| June 20 | Soviet forces conquer Wiborg |
| June 20 | U.S. attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea |
| June 20 | U.S. troops occupy Biak |
| June 22 | Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn |
| June 22 | British 14th army frees Imphal Assam |
| June 22 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act |
| June 22 | Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn |
| June 23 | 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153 |
| June 23 | Russian offensive in central front sector |
| June 23 | Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen |
| June 25 | British assault at Caen Normandy |
| June 26 | 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line |
| June 26 | Yankees, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yankees-1 and Giants-0 |
| June 27 | Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies |
| June 29 | German counter attack at Caen |
| June 29 | Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead |
| June 29 | Rommel and von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden |
| June 29 | Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk |
| June 29 | U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg |
| June 30 | Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea |
| June 30 | French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands |
| June 30 | Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen |
| July 1 | 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs |
| July 1 | Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank |
| July 1 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel |
| July 1 | General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy |
| July 1 | Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!" |
| July 2 | Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt |
| July 3 | Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore |
| July 3 | U.S. V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin |
| July 4 | 1,100 U.S. guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy |
| July 4 | 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima |
| July 4 | Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen |
| July 4 | Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber |
| July 5 | Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight |
| July 6 | 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford, Connecticut |
| July 6 | French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C. |
| July 6 | U.S. General Patton lands in France |
| July 7 | Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France |
| July 7 | Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan |
| July 8 | British troops march into Caen |
| July 8 | Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan |
| July 9 | In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell |
| July 9 | World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) |
| July 11 | 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
| July 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term |
| July 12 | Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased |
| July 12 | U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle |
| July 13 | Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated |
| July 14 | Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested |
| July 14 | U.S. assault on Coutances, Cotentin |
| July 15 | Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb |
| July 16 | Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row |
| July 17 | 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 |
| July 17 | Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland |
| July 18 | Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris |
| July 18 | Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6) |
| July 18 | British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland |
| July 18 | British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin |
| July 18 | British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy |
| July 18 | Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy |
| July 19 | 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany |
| July 19 | 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity |
| July 19 | Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen |
| July 19 | Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen |
| July 19 | Democratic convention opens in Chicago |
| July 19 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem |
| July 19 | General Bradley flies to England |
| July 19 | Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas |
| July 19 | New York archbishop Spellman flies to Europe |
| July 19 | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann |
| July 20 | British/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy |
| July 20 | Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs |
| July 20 | Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andre |
| July 20 | Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins |
| July 20 | Field Marshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen |
| July 20 | Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau |
| July 20 | General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy |
| July 20 | Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen |
| July 20 | Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack |
| July 20 | July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler |
| July 20 | Liberators of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach |
| July 20 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention |
| July 20 | U.S. 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen |
| July 20 | U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux |
| July 20 | U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II |
| July 20 | Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy) |
| July 21 | British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery |
| July 21 | General Koiso becomes premier of Japan |
| July 21 | U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders |
| July 21 | Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy |
| July 22 | Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation |
| July 23 | Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| July 23 | Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin |
| July 23 | Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland |
| July 23 | U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II |
| July 23 | U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy |
| July 24 | 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions |
| July 24 | Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek |
| July 24 | U.S. troops land on Tinian |
| July 25 | 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 |
| July 25 | Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines |
| July 25 | Japanse banzai-attack on Guam |
| July 25 | U.S. troop march into Guam |
| July 25 | USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo |
| July 26 | Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam |
| July 26 | Russian troops arrive in Weichsel |
| July 26 | U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles |
| July 27 | 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor |
| July 27 | Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp |
| July 27 | U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese |
| July 27 | U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy |
| July 28 | Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
| July 28 | U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
| July 29 | Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours |
| July 29 | Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH |
| July 29 | U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches |
| July 30 | Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy |
| July 30 | U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy |
| July 31 | Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz |
| July 31 | Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| July 31 | U.S. troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea |
| August 1 | Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East |
| August 1 | Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested |
| August 1 | General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army |
| August 1 | U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
| August 1 | U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
| August 1 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
| August 2 | Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts |
| August 2 | Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker |
| August 2 | Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany |
| August 3 | Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma |
| August 3 | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies |
| August 3 | General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter |
| August 3 | Lieutenant-general Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma |
| August 3 | Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers |
| August 4 | Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis |
| August 4 | British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy |
| August 5 | U.S. 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne |
| August 5 | U.S. troops occupy Vannes Bretagne |
| August 6 | All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died |
| August 6 | Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
| August 6 | Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins |
| August 6 | U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
| August 7 | Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter |
| August 7 | Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation |
| August 7 | German counter attack at Avranches fails |
| August 7 | July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins |
| August 7 | U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany |
| August 8 | Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
| August 8 | Germans raid Achterhuis, home of Anne Frank and family |
| August 8 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans |
| August 9 | 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught |
| August 9 | Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention |
| August 9 | U.S. 79th/90th division enter Le Mans |
| August 10 | Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0 |
| August 10 | Race riots in Athens Alabama |
| August 10 | U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese |
| August 10 | U.S./French offensive at Aleneon |
| August 11 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
| August 11 | French 5th Armour division recaptures Sees |
| August 11 | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz |
| August 11 | U.S. air raid on Palembang |
| August 12 | Churchill and Tito meet in Naples |
| August 12 | Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating |
| August 13 | British 8th army occupies Florence |
| August 13 | Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough |
| August 13 | Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio |
| August 14 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica |
| August 14 | Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive |
| August 14 | Russian offensive at Weichsel |
| August 15 | Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed |
| August 15 | German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
| August 15 | Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
| August 15 | Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
| August 15 | U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
| August 15 | U.S. 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
| August 16 | 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy |
| August 16 | Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London |
| August 16 | U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux |
| August 17 | 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy |
| August 17 | Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy |
| August 17 | German Field Marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
| August 17 | Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
| August 17 | U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans |
| August 17 | U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun |
| August 17 | Yankees Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game |
| August 18 | Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers |
| August 18 | U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris |
| August 18 | U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres |
| August 19 | Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed |
| August 19 | General Bradley visits Montgomery |
| August 19 | Last Japanese troops driven out of India |
| August 19 | Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance |
| August 19 | Paris police strike against nazi occupiers |
| August 19 | Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy |
| August 19 | U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris |
| August 19 | U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy |
| August 20 | 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G and CC Spokane Wash |
| August 20 | "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway |
| August 20 | General de Gaulle returns to France |
| August 20 | Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev |
| August 20 | U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap |
| August 21 | Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy |
| August 21 | Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City |
| August 21 | Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secretan/St-Mande |
| August 21 | U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens |
| August 22 | Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| August 23 | 94.5 degrees F (34.7 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands and 101.5 degrees F (38.6 degrees C) in Warnsvelt |
| August 23 | Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
| August 23 | General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris |
| August 23 | General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower |
| August 23 | King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu |
| August 23 | Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| August 23 | Sammellager Drancy freed |
| August 23 | U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine |
| August 23 | U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed |
| August 24 | General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris |
| August 25 | France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
| August 25 | General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris |
| August 25 | Paris liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday |
| August 25 | U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes |
| August 26 | Bulgaria announces withdrawal and German troops are to be disarmed |
| August 26 | De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees |
| August 26 | U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris |
| August 27 | 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg |
| August 28 | Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared |
| August 28 | U.S. air raid on Ambon |
| August 29 | 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees |
| August 29 | Anti German rebellion in Slovakia |
| August 30 | 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769) |
| August 30 | Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City |
| August 30 | Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania |
| August 31 | Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy |
| August 31 | French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris |
| August 31 | French troops liberate Bordeaux |
| August 31 | Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest |
| September 1 | Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns |
| September 1 | King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal |
| September 2 | Belgium's Emissie bank closes |
| September 2 | During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane |
| September 2 | Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz |
| September 2 | U.S. leaders meet in Belgium |
| September 3 | 58th U.S. Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) |
| September 3 | 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz |
| September 3 | Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
| September 3 | Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for U.S. Tennis title |
| September 3 | French troops liberate Lyon |
| September 3 | Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |
| September 3 | Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force |
| September 3 | Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
| September 4 | 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt |
| September 4 | 64th U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63) |
| September 4 | British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp |
| September 4 | Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany |
| September 4 | U.S. 1st Army frees Namen |
| September 5 | 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen |
| September 5 | Allies liberate Brussels |
| September 5 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign unity treaty |
| September 5 | British premier Churchill travels to Scotland |
| September 5 | Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard |
| September 5 | "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany |
| September 6 | General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand |
| September 7 | SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium |
| September 7 | Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) |
| September 8 | 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp |
| September 8 | Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
| September 9 | Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
| September 9 | Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
| September 9 | Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands |
| September 9 | U.S. 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
| September 9 | Very strong hurricane hits Netherland |
| September 10 | Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" |
| September 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference |
| September 11 | U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany |
| September 12 | Hurricane, kills 389 in NC |
| September 12 | Noorbeek and Mheer freed |
| September 12 | U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
| September 13 | 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten |
| September 13 | Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen |
| September 13 | U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
| September 14 | 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru |
| September 14 | Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed |
| September 14 | Hurricane hits New England: 389 die |
| September 14 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
| September 14 | U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
| September 15 | British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
| September 15 | Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
| September 15 | U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
| September 15 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
| September 15 | U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai |
| September 17 | British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. |
| September 17 | Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
| September 17 | Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands |
| September 18 | British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed |
| September 18 | Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) |
| September 18 | U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne |
| September 19 | Finland and Russia agree to cease fire |
| September 19 | Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed |
| September 20 | Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands |
| September 21 | Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders |
| September 22 | Boulogne reoccupied by Allies |
| September 22 | Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel |
| September 22 | U.S. troops land on Ulithi |
| September 26 | British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) |
| September 26 | Soviet forces occupy Estonia |
| September 27 | Helmond and Oss Netherlands liberated |
| September 28 | 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise) |
| September 28 | Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands |
| September 28 | Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder) |
| September 29 | Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep New York Yankees in DH |
| September 29 | Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia |
| September 30 | Calais reoccupied by Allies |
| September 30 | Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms |
| October 1 | Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala |
| October 1 | St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant |
| October 2 | Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people |
| October 2 | U.S. B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren |
| October 3 | 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland |
| October 3 | RAF bombs West Kapelse |
| October 4 | 1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park |
| October 4 | British troops land on Greek continent |
| October 4 | St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance |
| October 5 | Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in New York City |
| October 5 | Kerkrade (Netherlands) liberated |
| October 6 | Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel |
| October 6 | Canadians free Austria |
| October 6 | HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java |
| October 6 | Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia |
| October 7 | Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen |
| October 7 | Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin |
| October 7 | Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle |
| October 7 | Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums |
| October 7 | Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp |
| October 8 | "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio |
| October 8 | Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres |
| October 9 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow |
| October 9 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin |
| October 9 | Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders |
| October 9 | German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam |
| October 9 | St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series |
| October 10 | Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die |
| October 10 | U.S. takes Okinawa |
| October 11 | Allies bomb sea wall at Veere |
| October 12 | German army retreats from Athens |
| October 13 | Riga Latvia freed |
| October 13 | U.S. 1st army begins battle of Aachen |
| October 14 | Allied troops land in Corfu |
| October 14 | British troops march into Athens |
| October 16 | Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier |
| October 18 | Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel |
| October 18 | Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II |
| October 19 | British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow |
| October 19 | Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg |
| October 19 | John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in New York City |
| October 19 | Navy says black women can join WAVES |
| October 19 | U.S. forces land in Philippines |
| October 20 | Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless |
| October 20 | Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala |
| October 20 | Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade |
| October 20 | U.S. 1st army wins battle of Aachen |
| October 20 | U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines |
| October 20 | U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines |
| October 21 | Canadian troops occupy Breskens |
| October 21 | During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
| October 21 | Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in New York City |
| October 22 | Kurita's Vice-Admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo |
| October 23 | 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam |
| October 23 | Gulf of Leyte battle begin |
| October 23 | Soviet army invades Hungary |
| October 23 | Vice-Admiral Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks |
| October 24 | Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners |
| October 24 | U.S. air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks |
| October 24 | U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines |
| October 24 | U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte |
| October 25 | Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink |
| October 25 | Battle at Samar-island |
| October 25 | Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed |
| October 25 | Gas output stopped in Amsterdam |
| October 27 | Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from nazi occupation |
| October 27 | Tito reaches free Belgrade |
| October 28 | Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact |
| October 29 | 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands |
| October 29 | Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland |
| October 30 | Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Washington D.C. |
| October 30 | Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen |
| October 30 | Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau |
| October 30 | Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk |
| October 30 | Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WW II |
| October 30 | Tholen Island freed |
| October 31 | Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission |
| November 1 | Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in New York City |
| November 1 | Zeeuws and Flanders freed |
| November 2 | Auschwitz begins gassing inmates |
| November 2 | Canadian troops occupy Knokke |
| November 2 | U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
| November 3 | Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren |
| November 3 | German troops in Vlissingen surrenders |
| November 3 | Pro-German government of Hungary flees |
| November 3 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
| November 4 | German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
| November 4 | RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed |
| November 5 | Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren |
| November 5 | Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord |
| November 5 | German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
| November 7 | Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) |
| November 7 | Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die |
| November 8 | 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor |
| November 8 | Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders |
| November 9 | Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize |
| November 9 | Walcheren of nazi troops purged |
| November 10 | German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany |
| November 10 | U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery |
| November 11 | New York Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4) |
| November 12 | RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway |
| November 15 | Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank |
| November 16 | U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen |
| November 20 | 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines) |
| November 20 | Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees |
| November 20 | Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda |
| November 21 | Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food |
| November 22 | Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen |
| November 23 | U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg |
| November 24 | U.S. bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo |
| November 25 | 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6 |
| November 26 | 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor |
| November 26 | Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums |
| November 27 | 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed |
| November 27 | U.S. 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen |
| November 28 | 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp |
| November 28 | 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse |
| November 28 | Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP |
| November 28 | In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis |
| November 28 | U.S. 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen |
| November 29 | Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
| November 29 | John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery |
| November 30 | Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground |
| December 1 | Bela Bartok's Concerto for orchestra, premoeres |
| December 1 | Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands |
| December 1 | Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres |
| December 2 | 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (quarterback) |
| December 2 | General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow |
| December 2 | German troops seize Betuwse dikes |
| December 2 | U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar |
| December 3 | British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece |
| December 3 | Hungarian death march of Jews ends |
| December 3 | Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe |
| December 3 | NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves |
| December 3 | U.S. 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald |
| December 4 | Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded |
| December 5 | German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht |
| December 6 | U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall |
| December 7 | Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago |
| December 7 | General Radescu forms Romanian government |
| December 10 | 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis |
| December 10 | German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar |
| December 11 | Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed |
| December 13 | Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 |
| December 13 | Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in New York City |
| December 14 | Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany |
| December 14 | Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) |
| December 14 | German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland |
| December 15 | Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms |
| December 15 | U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
| December 15 | U.S. troops lands on Mindoro |
| December 16 | Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium |
| December 16 | General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie |
| December 16 | German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) |
| December 16 | U.S. 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid |
| December 17 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| December 17 | Japanese-Americans released from detention camps |
| December 17 | M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St |
| December 17 | U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast |
| December 17 | U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed |
| December 18 | Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines) |
| December 18 | Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants |
| December 20 | Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market |
| December 20 | Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!) |
| December 20 | Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions |
| December 20 | Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London |
| December 21 | Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP |
| December 22 | Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium |
| December 22 | Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan |
| December 23 | Beginning of harsh winter |
| December 26 | Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans |
| December 26 | Budapest surrounded by soviet army |
| December 26 | Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago |
| December 27 | Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London |
| December 28 | Eisenhower and Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium |
| December 28 | Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross |
| December 28 | Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in New York City |
| December 29 | Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced |
| December 29 | General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles |
| December 30 | King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne |
| December 31 | 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah |
| December 31 | Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab |
