Events in History
Events 401 - 429 of 429
- Nov 22 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
- Nov 23 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
- Nov 23 Romania signs Tripartite Pact
- Nov 23 SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
- Nov 25 SS Patria carrying illegal immigrants sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
- Nov 25 Football team University of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98
- Nov 25 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
- Nov 25 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
- Nov 26 Leidse students strike
- Nov 26 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
- Nov 28 Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by nazis
- Dec 6 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
- Dec 6 Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
- Dec 7 North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
- Dec 7 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
- Dec 9 British assault on Benghazi, Libya: first major allied offensive in North Africa
- Dec 9 Illegal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
- Dec 9 South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
- Dec 10 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
Event of Interest
Dec 11 Russian general Georgy Zhukov warns of German assault
Georgy Zhukov
- Dec 12 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
- Dec 16 British air raid on Mannheim
- Dec 17 British troops occupy Sollum, Egypt
- Dec 22 World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
- Dec 23 John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" premieres in NYC
- Dec 25 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey" premieres in NYC
- Dec 26 JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
- Dec 29 Germany drops its 1st incendiary bombs on London during the Blitz
- Dec 30 California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens