Allied airmen at Buchenwald concentration camp
World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Battle of Romania
World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
Leon Trotsky
In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
World War II
World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
Eighth Route Army
World War II: The Eighth Route Army launches the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.
Public broadcasting
Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
WWJ (AM)
The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
National Football League
The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio.
World War I
World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
National Fire Danger Rating System
Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.