Planes dropped bombs across Dresden, Germany, during WWII.
Walt Disney released '3 Caballeros' in the United States.
9,400 people die in the deadliest maritime disaster in history.
Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first place in the US to add fluoride to its water supply in a bid to improve oral health.
Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first and last US President to serve four terms.
Soviet and Polish forces liberate Warsaw during World War II.
Auschwitz concentration camp evacuated 56,000 prisoners.
German armies took Allied forces by surprise in the Ardennes, marking the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Theodore Roosevelt Jr for his help on D-Day.
The Moscow Armistice ends the Continuation War.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest began during World War II.
Benelux is Formed.
In The Netherlands, this day was named 'Dolle Dinsdag,' which means Mad Tuesday.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners.
Charles de Gaulle marched with his entourage to Notre Dame in Paris to celebrate the city's liberation the day before.
The Allied Liberation of Paris.
Allied troops began the attack on Paris during World War II.
Romania Switches Sides in World War II.
The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.
Battle of Narva ends.
American forces landed on Guam during WWII, which started the Second Battle of Guam.
Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt.
Anne Frank is captured.
Iceland becomes a republic.
The US executed an innocent 14-year-old African American teen for the murder of two white girls.
Normandy landings started in France during WWII.
Alaska Airlines started operating.
Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby, premiered in New York.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Salzburg, Austria.
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
Nazi German troops began the occupation of Hungary.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
U.S. bombers attack German aircraft manufacturing centers, in a bombing campaign that became known as the 'Big Week'.
Leningrad's siege by Germans ended in the wake of 650,000 perished citizens.
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.
