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The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden and British XXX Corps advances into the Netherlands as the "Garden" half of the Oper�
World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.
World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.
World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.
World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the liberation of Eindhoven.
World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.