6th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40. Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1942-03-28
Some 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck, Germany. British naval forces staged a successful raid on the Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot, destroying the only dry dock [ … ]
1945-03-27
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine. General Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters in Paris that German defenses on the Western Front had been broken. U.S. 20th Army Corps captures [ … ]
1944-03-27
Some 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp. 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia ghetto are shot by the Gestapo. Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all [ … ]
1943-03-27
Assassination attempt on Gerrit van der Veen at Amsterdam’s census bureau. Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio. U.S. begins assault on Fondouk Pass, Tunisia.
1942-03-27
Allies raid German submarine base in St. Nazaire, France. Japan forces Java to use “Tokyo time” 1½ hour forward. Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6th round to retain heavyweight boxing title [ … ]
1945-03-26
After over 18,000 Japanese and 6,000 Americans were killed, Iwo Jima was fully secured by U.S. forces following a final desperate attack by Japanese soldiers. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill looks over [ … ]
1944-03-26
Some 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany.
1943-03-26
Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean. Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal.
1942-03-26
First “Eichmann transport” to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps. Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pa, kills 21. German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin [ … ]
1945-03-25
U.S. 1st Army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen, Germany. U.S. 4th Armored Division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg, Germany. U.S. Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi (atoll in Caroline Islands) for Okinawa.
1944-03-25
German troops execute 335 residents of Rome.
1942-03-25
The 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration camp.
1945-03-24
Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery & Omar Bradley discuss advance in Germany. Largest one-day airborne drop of 600 transports & 1300 gliders. Operation Varsity: British, U.S. & Canadian airborne landings east of [ … ]
1944-03-24
Some 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape). 811 British bombers attack Berlin. In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by [ … ]