On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
R D McMillan of UP describes entry into Bayeux with Allied troops
SEC rept on assets, liabilities and working capital, all corps other than banks and ins cos, '39-43
Allies capture Civita Castellana; meet only slightest resistance; advance around Lake Bracciano; take former Kesselring hdqrs; Ger armies' disorganization noted; large-scale Ger demolitions cited; 8th Army east of Tiber takes Monterotondo, Sant' Angelo Romano, Guildonia, Mentana, Subiaco, Ienne and Vallepietra against stiff resistance; Allied artillery strikes Ger transport withdrawing toward Avezzano; Sulmona drives reach Barrea, Pescocostanzo and Rivisondoli; Allied planes batter Ger vehicles; bomb Livorno, Genoa and Savona areas; Civitavecchia capture significance noted; map
I Bonomi apptd Premier after Badoglio meets impasse; Natl Liberation Com opposition to Badoglio noted; pol parties discussed
comment; South seen anxious to regain its veto power over nomination by 2/3 rule restoration
1944Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician[†]
Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon was a British peer and chartered accountant. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999; he sat as a crossbencher.
1944Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Wallace Fredrick Gabler III was an American professional football player who was a quarterback for seven seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, starting at quarterback in 1965. Gabler was a starter in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts (1966–1969), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1969–1970), and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (1970–1972). He passed for 13,080 yards and 61 touchdowns in the CFL.
1944World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
1944World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly referred to as the Soviet Union or Russia, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was the flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.