Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentenced to death. National Football League legalizes coaching from bench.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1943-04-20
Boston Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi and fractures a leg.
1942-04-20
German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beaches.
1945-04-19
The 49th Boston Marathon was won by John A. Kelley of Massachusetts in 2:30:40.2. Rodgers & Hammerstein musical “Carousel” opens on Broadway in NYC. U.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese [ … ]
1944-04-19
Allied fleet attacks Sabang, Sumatra. 1944 NFL Draft: Angelo Bertelli from University of Notre Dame is first pick by Boston Yanks.
1943-04-19
The 47th Boston Marathon was won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8. Tens of Thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi [ … ]
1942-04-19
The 46th Boston Marathon was won by Joe Smith of Massachusetts in 2:26:51.2.
1945-04-18
Famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. In his first game, St. Louis Brown’s 1 armed [ … ]
1944-04-18
The 48th Boston Marathon was won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4. Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins’ ballet premieres in NYC.
1942-04-18
An air squadron from the USS Hornet, led by Lt. Colonel James H. Doolittle, raided Tokyo & other Japanese cities. The first edition of the “Stars & Stripes” was published as a [ … ]
1945-04-17
The 8th Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany. German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands. Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan. U.S. troops land in Central Mindanao, Philippines during Battle of Mindanao.
1943-04-17
Japanese Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul. Nazi SS-Gruppenführer Lt. General Jurgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw.
1942-04-17
Some 12 Lancaster Bombers attack the MAN factory in Augsburg, Germany. Operations begin to destroy the Sobibor Concentration Camp in Poland. Prisoner of War (POW) French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle [ … ]
1945-04-16
In his first speech to Congress President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his predecessor President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Soviet submarine in [ … ]
1943-04-16
Some 40 New Zealand bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands (85 killed). Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.