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World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own…
World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD
World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U
World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto
World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and c
World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia
World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland
Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sor
Winston Churchill's second wartime address to the U
Winston Churchill's second wartime address to the U
The Luttra Woman, a bog body from the Early Neolithic period (radiocarbon-dated c
The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwit
BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and le