German armies took Allied forces by surprise in the Ardennes, marking the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.
Major Glenn Miller, musician, and composer, disappeared over the English Channel during a flight.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Theodore Roosevelt Jr for his help on D-Day.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest began during World War II.
The Great Atlantic hurricane formed and wreaked havoc for a whole week.
In The Netherlands, this day was named 'Dolle Dinsdag,' which means Mad Tuesday.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners.
Charles de Gaulle marched with his entourage to Notre Dame in Paris to celebrate the city's liberation the day before.
Allied troops began the attack on Paris during World War II.
The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.
Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry.
American forces landed on Guam during WWII, which started the Second Battle of Guam.
Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt.
The US executed an innocent 14-year-old African American teen for the murder of two white girls.
Normandy landings started in France during WWII.
Alaska Airlines started operating.
Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby, premiered in New York.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Salzburg, Austria.
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
Nazi German troops began the occupation of Hungary.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
Leningrad's siege by Germans ended in the wake of 650,000 perished citizens.
