Events 601 - 718 of 718
- Oct 24 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
- Oct 24 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
Event of Interest
Oct 30 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
- Oct 30 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
- Oct 30 Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
- Oct 30 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II
- Oct 30 Tholen Island (Netherlands) freed during WWII
- Oct 31 Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission
- Nov 1 Mary Coyle Chase's "Harvey" premieres in NYC
- Nov 1 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
- Nov 1 Zeeuws & Flanders liberated
- Nov 2 Canadian troops occupy Knokke
- Nov 2 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
- Nov 3 Allied commandos land at Westkapelle, on the Dutch island of Walcheren
- Nov 3 German troops in Vlissingen surrender
- Nov 3 Pro-German government of Hungary flees
- Nov 3 US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
- Nov 4 German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
- Nov 4 RAF bombs Dinteloord (Netherlands), 54 killed
- Nov 5 Allied troops reach Zoutelande, Walcheren
- Nov 5 Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord
- Nov 5 German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
- Nov 7 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
- Nov 8 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
- Nov 8 Last German troops at Walcheren Island, Netherlands surrender
- Nov 9 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
- Nov 9 Walcheren purged of Nazi troops
- Nov 10 Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
- Nov 10 German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
- Nov 10 US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
- Nov 12 RAF sinks German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord, Norway
- Nov 15 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
- Nov 16 US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
- Nov 19 World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
- Nov 20 1st Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
- Nov 20 Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
- Nov 20 Dutch Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda, Netherlands
- Nov 21 Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
- Nov 22 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
Victory in Battle
Nov 23 US 7th army under General Alexander Patch conquers Straatsburg
- Nov 27 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed
- Nov 27 US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen in Germany
- Nov 28 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
- Nov 28 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
- Nov 28 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
- Nov 28 US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen
- Nov 29 Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
- Nov 29 Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore performs 1st open heart surgery
- Nov 29 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas
- Nov 30 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched
- Dec 1 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
- Dec 2 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
- Dec 2 German troops seize dikles in Betuwse, Netherland
- Dec 2 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar, GErmany
- Dec 3 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
- Dec 3 British order to disarm causes general strike in Greece
- Dec 3 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
- Dec 3 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
- Dec 3 The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists
- Dec 3 US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
- Dec 4 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
- Dec 5 German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht
- Dec 6 US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
- Dec 7 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
- Dec 7 General Radescu forms Romanian government
- Dec 10 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
- Dec 10 German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
- Dec 11 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
- Dec 13 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
- Dec 13 Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in NYC
- Dec 14 Beginning of Liese-Aktion: Germany tries to recruit Dutch men for the Germany labor force
- Dec 14 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
- Dec 14 US Congress establishes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
- Dec 15 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
Event of Interest
Dec 15 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
- Dec 15 US troops land on Mindoro (Philippines)
- Dec 16 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
- Dec 16 Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'
- Dec 16 US 2nd Infantry division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
- Dec 17 San Francisco M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
- Dec 17 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released
- Dec 17 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
- Dec 18 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
- Dec 18 US Destroyers Hull, Spence & Monaghan sink in typhoon (Philippines)
- Dec 20 Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
- Dec 20 Battle of Bastogne: Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
- Dec 20 Bishop forbids membership of non Catholic unions
Event of Interest
Dec 20 Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" premieres in London
Victory in Battle
Dec 26 Battle of Bastogne: US General George S. Patton's 3rd Army repulses German forces
- Dec 26 Budapest surrounded by Soviet army
Theater Premiere
Dec 26 Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie" premieres in Chicago
- Dec 27 Greece: British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London
- Dec 28 Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place"
- Dec 28 Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt, Belgium
- Dec 29 Belgian Walloon Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle sentenced to death
- Dec 29 General Eisenhower's train returns to Versailles
- Dec 30 King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne, appointing Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens as Regent in 1945
- Dec 31 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
- Dec 31 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
- Dec 31 World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.