3rd January » World War II: Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington or Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain List of World War II aces from Japan known as Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
4th January » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
5th January » The 'Daily Mail' becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
17th January » World War II: Allies of World War II e.g Allied forces launch the first of Battle of Monte Cassino or four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months
22nd January » World War II: The Allies of World War II known as Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
25th January » Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first woman Anglican priest.
27th January » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
29th January » World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is Koniuchy massacre e.g attacked by Soviet partisan units.
29th January » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
30th January » World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
30th January » World War II: American troops land on Majuro.
31st January » World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
3rd February » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. United States Army Army and United States Marines Marine forces Battle of Kwajalein seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Empire of Japan Japanese garrison.
7th February » World War II: In Anzio, Italy, Germany or German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
14th February » World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java (island) known as Java.
15th February » World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino or assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
15th February » World War II: The Narva Offensive (15–28 February 1944) or Narva Offensive begins.
17th February » World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
20th February » World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on Germany named German aircraft manufacturing centers.
20th February » World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
22nd February » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
23rd February » The Soviet Union begins the Operation Lentil (Caucasus) named forced deportation of the Chechen people or Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
29th February » World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
3rd March » The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
4th March » World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a Bombing of Berlin March 1944 to April 1945 or daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
5th March » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in the western Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or Ukrainian SSR.
9th March » World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville Island known as Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
9th March » World War II: Bombing of Tallinn in World War II known as Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
10th March » Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front (Greece) called National Liberation Front.
18th March » The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
19th March » World War II: Nazism called Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
24th March » Ardeatine massacre: Nazi Germany known as German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
24th March » World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie 'The Great Escape (film) e.g The Great Escape', 76 Allies of World War II e.g Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
30th March » World War II: Allies of World War II Allied bombers conduct their most severe Bombing of Sofia in World War II bombing run on Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria Bulgaria.
30th March » Allied Strategic bombing bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Avro Lancaster Lancasters, 214 Handley Page Halifax Halifaxes and 9 de Havilland Mosquito Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance
1st April » Navigation errors lead to an accidental United States known as American bombing of the Switzerland known as Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
4th April » World War II: Bombing of Bucharest in World War II known as First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
5th April » World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura, Kastoria named Kleisoura are executed by the Nazi Germany named Germans.
10th April » Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp or Birkenau death camp.
13th April » Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
14th April » Bombay Explosion (1944) known as Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
16th April » World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
22nd April » The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in military helicopter named combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater e.g China-Burma-India theater.
22nd April » World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated Allies of World War II called Allied forces land in the Jayapura called Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
25th April » The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
26th April » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
26th April » Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in Axis occupation of Greece called occupied Crete.
28th April » World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1st May » World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens, Greece in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
5th May » German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura, Kastoria called Kleisoura in Greece
11th May » World War II: The Allies of World War II named Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
18th May » World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as Fallschirmjäger (World War II) or German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
18th May » Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
4th June » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine German submarine U-505 called 'U-505' the first time a United States Navy known as U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
4th June » World War II: Rome falls to the Allies of World War II Allies, the first Axis powers Axis capital (political) capital to fall.
5th June » World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on Nazi Germany e.g German Atlantic Wall known as gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
6th June » World War II: the Normandy Landings known as Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named 'Operation Overlord', commences with the landing of 155,000 Allies of World War II named Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quic
7th June » World War II: The steamer 'Danae', carrying 350 Crete or Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
7th June » World War II: Invasion of Normandy called Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canada e.g Canadian prisoners of war.
9th June » World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for Maquis du Limousin known as maquisards attacks.
9th June » World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the Karelia (historical province of Finland) called previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
10th June » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
10th June » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are Distomo massacre or massacred by German troops.
10th June » In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
11th June » USS Missouri BB-63 6, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is ship commissioning commissioned.
12th June » American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division Battle of Carentan e.g secure the town of Carentan.
13th June » World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - Battle of Bloody Gulch or launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
13th June » World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
14th June » World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the Nazi Germany known as German-occupied town of Caen.
15th June » World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
15th June » In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944 Saskatchewan general election, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first Socialism socialist government in North America.
16th June » At age 14, George Stinney e.g George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
17th June » Iceland declares Icelandic National Day called independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
19th June » World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
20th June » World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive United States Navy known as U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
20th June » Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
25th June » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
25th June » World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships Bombardment of Cherbourg or bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
25th June » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
26th June » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance movement in World War II named Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
30th June » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to United States named American forces.
3rd July » World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Red Army or Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
6th July » Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
7th July » World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
9th July » World War II: Invasion of Normandy called Battle of Normandy British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
9th July » World War II: Battle of Saipan American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
9th July » World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offe
17th July » Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
17th July » World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American Lockheed P-38 Lightning named P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
18th July » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
20th July » World War II: Adolf Hitler survives 20 July plot or an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
21st July » World War II: Battle of Guam (1944) e.g Battle of Guam American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
21st July » World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin named Berlin, Germany for the 20 July plot e.g July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
25th July » World War II: Operation Spring one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
26th July » World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazism named Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
26th July » The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
1st August » World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazism e.g Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
2nd August » ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Republic Day (Republic of Macedonia) known as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
2nd August » World War II: The Convoy HX 300 named largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
4th August » The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jews known as Jewish Diary named diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
5th August » World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese people Japanese Prisoner of war POWs Cowra breakout attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
5th August » World War II: Poland Polish insurgents liberate a Germany German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jews Jewish prisoners.
5th August » World War II: The Nazis begin a Wola massacre named week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
6th August » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Krakow Uprising (1944) named Krakow Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
7th August » IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
9th August » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
9th August » Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions,
10th August » World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
10th August » World War II: The Battle of Narva (1944) Battle of Narva ends with a combined Germany German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet Union Soviet troops.
12th August » Nazi Germany known as Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
12th August » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazism or Nazis by French forces.
15th August » World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
19th August » World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against Nazi Germany called German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
20th August » World War II: KLB Club or 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
20th August » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
21st August » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
21st August » World War II: Canada Canadian and Poland Polish units Operation Tractable capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
22nd August » World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
22nd August » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
23rd August » World War II: Marseille is Liberation of Marseille known as liberated by the Allies.
23rd August » Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
24th August » World War II: Allied troops begin Liberation of Paris named the attack on Paris.
25th August » World War II: Liberation of Paris or Paris is liberated by the Allies of World War II e.g Allies.
26th August » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
28th August » World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
29th August » Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovaks named Slovak troops turn against the Nazism called Nazis.
3rd September » Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
4th September » World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
4th September » World War II: Finland exits from the Continuation War e.g war with Soviet Union.
5th September » Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
6th September » World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
6th September » World War II: Soviet forces Tartu Offensive called capture the city of Tartu, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic known as Estonia.
8th September » World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
8th September » World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
11th September » World War II: The first Allies of World War II named Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
11th September » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
12th September » World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
14th September » World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by Allies of World War II named allied forces.
15th September » Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Second Quebec Conference called Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
17th September » World War II: Allies of World War II or Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
19th September » Moscow Armistice known as Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
19th September » Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
25th September » World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division Operation Berlin (Arnhem rescue) known as withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
26th September » World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
26th September » World War II: On the Gothic Line Central Front (5th Army) or central front of the Gothic Line Battle named Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
27th September » The Bombing of Kassel in World War II known as Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a United States Army Air Forces e.g USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
28th September » Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
2nd October » World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
5th October » Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Jet aircraft named jet fighter over France.
7th October » World War II: During an Auschwitz concentration camp Birkenau revolt or uprising at Auschwitz concentration camp named Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
8th October » World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Bobbie E. Brown e.g Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
10th October » The Holocaust known as Holocaust: 800 Romani (people) e.g Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
12th October » World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
13th October » World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
14th October » Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou (senior) known as Ge
14th October » Linked to a 20 July plot e.g plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
18th October » World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
19th October » United States forces land in the Philippines.
20th October » The Soviet Army and Partisans (Yugoslavia) called Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Kingdom of Yugoslavia known as Yugoslavia
20th October » Liquid Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion named 'natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
20th October » American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands Battle of Leyte called an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
21st October » World War II: The first kamikaze attack — A Japanese fighter plane carrying a convert 200 kg lb adj=on bomb attacks HMAS Australia D84 6 off Leyte (island) Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
21st October » World War II: Battle of Aachen — The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
23rd October » World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
23rd October » World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
24th October » World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier 'Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku known as Zuikaku' and the battleship 'Japanese battleship Musashi or Musashi' are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
25th October » Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
25th October » The Hungary called Hungarian city of Nagykároly is occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces.
25th October » World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf — the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
26th October » World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
27th October » World War II: Wehrmacht known as German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
29th October » The city of Breda (Netherlands) named Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
30th October » Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz concentration camp e.g Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1st November » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
3rd November » World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
4th November » World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
6th November » Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Site e.g Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the 'Fat Man' atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
7th November » A Rail transport in Puerto Rico Tragedy on election day in 1944 named passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
7th November » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
7th November » Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
10th November » The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood AE-11 6 explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
12th November » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship 'German battleship Tirpitz named Tirpitz', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
16th November » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.
16th November » World War II: Dueren, Germany, is destroyed by Allies of World War II known as Allied bombers.
18th November » The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
19th November » World War II: President of the United States e.g U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling United States dollar known as US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
19th November » World War II: Thirty members of the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II The Resistance named Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
24th November » World War II: Bombing of Tokyo in World War II called Bombing of Tokyo The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
26th November » World War II: Nazi Germany Germany begins V-1 (flying bomb) V-1 and V-2 rocket V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
27th November » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
29th November » The first surgery (on a human) to correct Blue Baby Syndrome e.g blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
29th November » World War II: Liberation Day (Albania) called Albania is liberated by Albanian resistance during World War II named partisan forces.
17th December » World War II: Battle of the Bulge Malmedy massacre American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Prisoner of war or POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper known as Peiper.
18th December » World War II: 77 Boeing B-29 Superfortress e.g B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankou named Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
22nd December » World War II: Battle of the Bulge Nazi Germany known as German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
28th December » Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of National Hockey League called NHL ice hockey.
30th December » King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
31st December » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
31st December » World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front (World War II) named Western Front begins.