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World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate…
World War II: Operation Spring near Caen is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews…
World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where…
Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of…
World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545…
World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in…
The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the…
World War II: Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union…
World War II: The Battle of Guam in the Pacific comes to an effective end.
World War II: The Battle of Narva on the Eastern Front ends with a defensive German victory.
Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed…