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World War II: The Battle of Midway, a major battle of the Pacific War, began with a massive Japanese offensive on Americ
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (pictured) began keeping a diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in
World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the S
A downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero was discovered on Akutan Island, Alaska; it was later rebuilt and flown to…
World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of…
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.
World War II: The tanker SS Ohio reached Malta as part of an operation to deliver much-needed supplies during the…
The Holocaust: During the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, President Jozef Tiso gave a speech describing Jews as…
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives…
World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese…
World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert…
British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to…
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on…
Second World War: HMS Curacoa (pictured) was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner…
World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon…