“Gaslight”, starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1943-05-04
National League President Ford Frick demonstrates a revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet. The synthetic rubber core of the ball proves to be 50% livelier.
1945-05-03
The 1st Polish Armor Brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen, Germany. Allies arrest German physicist Werner Heisenberg. Allied forces capture Rangoon, Burma from the Japanese. German ship “Cap Arcona” laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air [ … ]
1944-05-03
“Meet Me in St Louis” opens on Broadway. Meat rationing ends in U.S.. “Going My Way”, directed by Leo McCary and starring Bing Crosby premieres in New York (Best Picture 1945). [ … ]
1943-05-03
Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair for “Dragon’s Teeth”. Strike against obligatory labor camps ends after 200 killed. U.S. 1st Armor Division occupies Mateur, Tunisia.
1942-05-03
Japanese troops attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands. German Luftwaffe again bombs Exeter, England destroying its town center. Nazis execute 72 in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands. Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear [ … ]
1945-05-02
Allies occupy Wismar, Northern Germany. Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen, Netherlands. The Battle of Berlin ends with the Soviet Union announcing the fall of Berlin and the surrender of [ … ]
1944-05-02
WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC. (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast.
1943-05-02
German troops vacate Jefna, Tunisia.
1942-05-02
Japanese troops occupy Mandalay, Burma. 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4.
1945-05-01
About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army. A day after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government and effectively [ … ]
1944-05-01
German Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight. Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel “Journey in the Dark”. Surprise attack on Weteringschans, Amsterdam fails.
1943-05-01
The 1st edition of illegal “The Free Artist” appears in Amsterdam. 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04. Food rationing begins in U.S.. German Wehrmacht deployed in order to [ … ]
1942-05-01
Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear “Jewish star”.
1944-04-30
NY Giant’s Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs and Mel Ott scores 6 runs and draws 5 walks as New York trounces the Brooklyn Dodgers 26-8.