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World War II: Aircraft from Imperial Japanese Navy vessels attacked Allied naval forces, beginning the Battle of the Cor
World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor
World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
World War II: The crews of three Japanese submarines scuttled their vessels and committed suicide after entering Sydney
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.
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