Events in History
Events 501 - 545 of 545
- Nov 8 France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate
- Nov 11 US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
- Nov 12 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
- Nov 14 J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
- Nov 16 World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
- Nov 18 First US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
- Nov 18 444 British bombers attack Berlin
- Nov 18 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- Nov 19 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- Nov 20 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- Nov 20 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
- Nov 21 7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany
Event of Interest
Nov 22 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-shek
- Nov 22 France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprisoned Lebanese government
- Nov 22 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
- Nov 22 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
- Nov 23 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
- Nov 23 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operations
- Nov 23 US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japanese
- Nov 25 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- Nov 28 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy
Josip Broz Tito
Conference of Interest
Dec 1 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Dec 2 First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
- Dec 3 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
- Dec 4 -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü
- Dec 4 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
- Dec 8 John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC
- Dec 10 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
- Dec 13 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
- Dec 16 "Tamiami Champion" (New York to Florida) trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
- Dec 17 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
- Dec 19 Military coup in Bolivia
Appointment of Interest
Dec 23 General Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
Bernard Montgomery
Event of Interest
Dec 24 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Dec 24 Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines" premieres in London
- Dec 26 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
Event of Interest
Dec 26 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
Adolf Hitler
- Dec 27 France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
- Dec 27 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
- Dec 27 Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
- Dec 28 All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.
- Dec 30 Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair