Tehran Conference begins.
Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp, 6,000 Jews killed.
The bombing of Vatican City State.
Provisional Government of Free India Declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).
The Gran Sasso Raid is conducted by the German paratroopers at the behest of Hitler.
Furniture retailer IKEA opened its first store in Sweden.
Italian Fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini was removed from office.
Palermo, Sicily was liberated by US forces.
President Franklin Roosevelt became the first president to travel abroad during war.
The Royal Air Force dambusters wreck three German dams.
Witold Pilecki escaped Auschwitz.
The Warsaw Uprising involved Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resisting Nazi Germany during WWII.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Belgian town of Mortsel.
A plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bomb fails.
German troops liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
The battle of the Ruhr campaign began during WWII with an air raid in Essen, Germany.
Non-violent protests in Berlin prevent the deportation of 2000 jews.
American movie studio executives allowed the Office of War Information to review their scripts.
The Gestapo arrests German resistance fighter Sophie Scholl and other White Rose activists.
Winston Churchill fell ill with pneumonia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 48-hour working week order to increase production during World War II.
The New York Times published a government message that the US would be rationing shoes.
The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end as the Axis Powers surrender.
World record for fastest temperature change.
Insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto take up arms against the German oppressors.
Construction of The Pentagon was completed.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Morocco, where he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss allies during World War II.
Adolf Hitler signed the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon during World War II.
The world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction happened in Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago. It was overseen by Enrico Fermi.
"Casablanca" premieres in New York.
The American drama movie 'Now, Voyager' premiered in New York City, US.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress flies for the first time.
The popular children's book 'Five on a Treasure Island' featuring the 'Famous Five,' written by Enid Blyton, was published.
Quit India Movement Begins in India.
300,000 Jews from a ghetto in Warsaw were deported and executed by Nazi rule.
The United States Congress formally recognized the Pledge of Allegiance and added it to the Federal Flag Code.
Kazimierz Piechowski and three others escape from Auschwitz concentration camp.
Anne Frank received her famous diary.
Imperial Japan began a series of submarine attacks on Sydney.
The first 1,000 Royal Air force bomber raid dropped 38 thousand tons of bombs on Cologne, Germany.
Bing Crosby records White Christmas.
Czech resistance fighters kill Reinhard Heydrich.
Mexico declared war on Nazi-Germany and Japan.
The US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was formed.
United States civilians received ration books for the first time.
German bombers attacked the English city of Exeter, beginning the Baedeker Blitz.
The island of Malta was awarded the George Cross by King George VI of England.
Anne Miller became the first American patient to be treated with penicillin.
