11th January » World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
11th January » Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
14th January » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
14th January » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
14th January » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
15th January » World War II: The Battle of Voronezh (1943) called Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
17th January » World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) called Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel 'Agios Stefanos' and mans her with part of her crew.
23rd January » World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese people called Japanese army in Territory of Papua or Papua.
23rd January » Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
23rd January » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
24th January » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a Casablanca Conference called conference in Casablanca.
27th January » World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
29th January » The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) named U.S. cruiser 'Chicago' is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
30th January » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago CA-29 6 is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
2nd February » World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to Battle of Stalingrad Soviet victory conclusion as Red Army Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis powers Axis forces.
3rd February » The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
7th February » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allies of World War II or Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campai
9th February » World War II: Allies of World War II Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal (Pacific Ocean island) Guadalcanal secure after Empire of Japan Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
10th February » World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Red Army Soviet Red Army engages Nazi Germany German troops and Francoist Spain Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
11th February » World War II: General (United States) named General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the Allies of World War II or allied armies in Europe.
14th February » World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
16th February » World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
16th February » World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
18th February » The Nazism named Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
18th February » Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech called 'Sportpalast' speech.
19th February » World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
20th February » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to Censorship or censor movies.
20th February » The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
22nd February » World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
23rd February » Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
27th February » The Smith Mine disaster or Smith Mine 3 in Bearcreek, Montana known as Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
27th February » The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
2nd March » World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
3rd March » World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green Bethnal Green tube station named tube station.
4th March » World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
5th March » First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
6th March » Norman Rockwell published 'Freedom from Want (painting) called Freedom from Want' in the 'The Saturday Evening Post' with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the 'Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell) called Four Freedoms' series.
13th March » The Holocaust: Nazi Germany known as German forces liquidate the Kraków Ghetto known as Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
14th March » World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
15th March » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet Union or Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
19th March » Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
21st March » Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff called Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
22nd March » World War II: the entire population of Khatyn massacre or Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by Germany known as German occupation forces.
27th March » World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
5th April » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the resid
7th April » The Holocaust called Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
7th April » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece known as Axis Occupation.
8th April » President of the United States named U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common car
13th April » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoner of war prisoners of war mass execution killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in Lond
18th April » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
19th April » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after Nazi Germany e.g German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
25th April » The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
26th April » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
30th April » World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph P219 6 surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
11th May » World War II: American troops Battle of Attu e.g invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
13th May » World War II: German Afrika Korps and Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) Fascism (1922–1943) or Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allies of World War II known as Allied forces.
14th May » World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks Ship or AHS e.g Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
15th May » Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or 'Third International').
16th May » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
17th May » World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on Nazi Germany named German dams.
19th May » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
24th May » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps e.g concentration camp.
1st June » British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard (actor) Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the United Kingdom
3rd June » In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and United States Marine Corps e.g Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
20th June » The Detroit Race Riot (1943) e.g Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
23rd June » World War II: The United Kingdom British destroyers HMS Eclipse H08 6 and HMS Laforey G99 6 sink the Italy Italian submarine 600-Serie Adua class submarine 'Ascianghi' in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland 59 6.
25th June » The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising e.g an uprising against the Nazis.
1st July » Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
4th July » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator or B-24 Liberator bomber 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash called crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot sur
5th July » World War II: An Allies of World War II called Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
5th July » World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
9th July » World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily Operation Husky Allies of World War II Allied forces perform an Amphibious warfare amphibious invasion of Sicily.
11th July » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
11th July » World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily Nazi Germany German and Italian troops launch a Battle of Gela (1943) counter-attack on Allies of World War II Allied forces in Sicily.
12th July » World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka Nazi Germany or German and Soviet Union named Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time.
14th July » In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
19th July » World War II: Rome is Bombing of Rome in World War II named heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
22nd July » World War II: Allies of World War II called Allied forces capture the Italy e.g Italian city of Palermo.
23rd July » The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex or Rayleigh, Essex named Essex, England.
23rd July » World War II: The United Kingdom British destroyers HMS Eclipse H08 6 and HMS Laforey G99 6 sink the Italy Italian submarine 600-Serie Adua class submarine 'Ascianghi' in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland 59 6.
24th July » World War II: Bombing of Hamburg in World War II Operation Gomorrah begins: United Kingdom British and Canada Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will hav
25th July » World War II: Benito Mussolini 25 Luglio called is forced out of office by his own Italy or Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
28th July » World War II: Bombing of Hamburg in World War II known as Operation Gomorrah The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg called Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
2nd August » Rebellion in the Nazism Nazi Extermination camp death camp of Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka.
2nd August » World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Imperial Japanese Navy e.g Japanese destroyer 'Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930) named Amagiri' and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
17th August » World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
17th August » World War II: The United States Army Europe U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Bernard
17th August » World War II: Quebec Conference, 1943 e.g First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
23rd August » World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
27th August » World War II: Empire of Japan known as Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia named New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
28th August » World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazism called Nazi occupation starts.
29th August » Occupation of Denmark named German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
31st August » The USS Harmon DE-678 6, the first United States Navy U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
3rd September » World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson 28 6 off Malta.
5th September » World War II: The 503rd Infantry Regiment e.g 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
6th September » The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
7th September » A Gulf Hotel fire or fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, kills 55 people.
7th September » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
8th September » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
8th September » World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allies of World War II or Allied armistice with Italy.
9th September » World War II: The Allies of World War II Allies land at Operation Avalanche Salerno and Operation Slapstick Taranto, Italy.
10th September » World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
11th September » World War II: Wehrmacht known as German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
11th September » World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
12th September » World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is Gran Sasso raid known as rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
13th September » The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
16th September » World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the 10th Army (Wehrmacht) or German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
17th September » World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans.
18th September » World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibor extermination camp or Sobibór.
18th September » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
23rd September » World War II: The Nazi Germany named Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1st October » World War II: Naples falls to Allies of World War II called Allied soldiers.
4th October » World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
10th October » Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
13th October » World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies of World War II known as Allies and declares war on Germany.
14th October » The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt known as second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
14th October » José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
17th October » Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
17th October » The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed.
19th October » Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
20th October » The cargo vessel French ship Sinfra known as 'Sinfra' is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
21st October » The Azad Hind or Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
22nd October » World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force Bombing of Kassel in World War II or conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
24th October » The Azad Hind or Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America.
26th October » World War II: First flight of the Dornier Flugzeugwerke e.g Dornier Dornier Do 335 or Do 335 "Pfeil".
31st October » World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy called USN or United States Marine Corps e.g USMC aircraft.
1st November » World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marine Corps e.g United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville Island named Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1st November » World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville Island e.g Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces Attack on Rabaul (1943) known as attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
3rd November » World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
5th November » World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
15th November » The Holocaust: German Schutzstaffel SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Romani people Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Internment Concentration camp concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)
16th November » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
18th November » World War II: Battle of Berlin (air) e.g Battle of Berlin 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
19th November » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska known as Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
20th November » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
22nd November » World War II: Cairo Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
22nd November » Lebanon gains independence from France.
23rd November » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
23rd November » World War II: Tarawa Atoll named Tarawa and Makin Atoll called Makin atolls fall to American forces.
24th November » World War II: The USS called Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa Atoll called Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
26th November » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea or Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
28th November » World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President of the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier of the Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran,
29th November » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2nd December » World War II: A Air Raid on Bari Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey SS 'John Harvey', which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era Sulfur mustard mustar
4th December » World War II: In Kingdom of Yugoslavia named Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
4th December » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
13th December » World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
15th December » World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign.
17th December » All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States with the repealing of the Chinese Exclusion Act known as Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
24th December » World War II: United States called U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Normandy Invasion.
28th December » World War II: After eight days of brutal urban warfare called house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the 1st Parachute Division (Germany) e.g German 1st Parachute Division and th
30th December » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.