Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).
Furniture retailer IKEA opened its first store in Sweden.
Italian Fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini was removed from office.
Palermo, Sicily was liberated by US forces.
President Franklin Roosevelt became the first president to travel abroad during war.
Witold Pilecki escaped Auschwitz.
The Warsaw Uprising involved Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resisting Nazi Germany during WWII.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Belgian town of Mortsel.
The battle of the Ruhr campaign began during WWII with an air raid in Essen, Germany.
American movie studio executives allowed the Office of War Information to review their scripts.
Winston Churchill fell ill with pneumonia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 48-hour working week order to increase production during World War II.
The New York Times published a government message that the US would be rationing shoes.
Construction of The Pentagon was completed.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Morocco, where he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss allies during World War II.
