2nd » World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
8th » World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
9th » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
11th » Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
17th » For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
17th » German troops War crimes of the Wehrmacht Reprisal actions named execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
21st » World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers Kragujevac massacre known as butcher about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors.
22nd » World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
23rd » World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Soviet Union called Russia of Nazi Germany called German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
29th » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by Nazi Germany called German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
30th » World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allies of World War II or Allied nations.
30th » 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
31st » After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
31st » World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James DD-245 6 is torpedoed by a Nazi Germany German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.