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The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been…
Second World War: Allied forces halted the Axis invasion of Egypt at the First Battle of El Alamein.
World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi…
World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw…
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premiered in Leningrad while the city was under siege by Nazi forces.
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-
World War II: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audienc
World War II: German paratroopers began the Battle of Heraklion on the island of Crete, capturing the airfield and port
Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait
World War II: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney and
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ir
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ir
The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II
World War II: German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging Áras an Uachtaráin, th
World War II: German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging Áras an Uachtaráin, th
World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the German Wehrmacht des
Second Sino-Japanese War: About 4,000 people died of asphyxiation in Chongqing when the tunnel in which they were hiding