Japanese occupying army on Java implements film censorship.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1945-04-15
British Army and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, Germany. Franklin D. Roosevelt buried on the grounds of his Hyde Park home. Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical “Communium Interpretes Dolorum.” U.S. [ … ]
1943-04-15
The Ayn Rand novel “The Fountainhead” was first published by Bobbs-Merrill Co. Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase.
1942-04-15
King George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta.
1945-04-14
American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace. Arnhem & Zwolle Netherlands freed from Nazis. U.S. 7th Army & Allied forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany. U.S. forces capture [ … ]
1944-04-14
The 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz. Freighter “SS Fort Stikene” explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied [ … ]
1942-04-14
German submarine U-85 with the loss of all hands is sunk off Nags Head, NC in action with the destroyer USS Roper.
1943-04-14
Generals Harold Alexander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kenneth Anderson, & Omar Bradley discuss the assault on Tunis, Tunisia. James Gow & Arnauld d’Usseau’s “Tomorrow the World” premieres in NYC. The main Japanese [ … ]
1945-04-13
Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen, Netherlands from Nazis. Red Army occupies Vienna. U.S. Marines capture Minna Shima off Okinawa, Japan.
1944-04-13
Transport #71 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany. Diplomatic relations are established between New Zealand and the Soviet Union. South Carolina rejects black suffrage. Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks [ … ]
1943-04-13
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth. Nazis discover mass grave of Polish officers executed by the [ … ]
1945-04-12
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia at the age of 63 – Vice-President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd President. Canadian troops liberate Nazi [ … ]
1944-04-12
Lillian Hellman’s “Searching Wind” stage production premieres on Broadway in NYC.
1943-04-12
Allies capture Soussa, North-Africa. Dutch Catholic University at Nijmegen closed.
1942-04-12
Japanese troops kill about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan. 9th Masters Golf Tournament: Byron Nelson wins with a 280.