** International Holocaust Remembrance Day ( International )

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.

** The so-called " Big Three " banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $ 71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

** The Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

** The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.

** The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins.

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

** Holocaust: In Warsaw, 2 women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.

** Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

** Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin ( commonly known as " Majdanek ") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem.

** Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor ( d. 1996 )

** Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim.

** The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

** Martin Niemöller, prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust ( d. 1984 )

** Holocaust – NBC

** Resolution 61 / 255: Condemned without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust

** operating the International School for Holocaust Studies ;

** developing age-appropriate study programs, curricula and educational materials for both Israeli and foreign schools, in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust

** holding exhibitions about the Holocaust ; and

** teaching about the Holocaust to the general public.

** Workers Memorial Day ( International )

** Memorial Day or Il Giorno della Memoria ( Italy )

** Waterloo Memorial, another name for Wellington's Column

** The Chicago Police Department shoot and kill ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago in what is known as the Memorial Day massacre.

** The Busch Memorial Stadium opens in St Louis, Missouri.

** Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

** Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins, 14 – 7, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, to complete the NFL's first Perfect Season in front of 90, 182 fans.

** Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.

** List of players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

** List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

** 2006-12-30 — Martian Analemma at Sagan Memorial Station ( simulated )

** September 11 Quilts Memorial Exhibition

** The World Trade Center Memorial Quilt

** America's 9-11 Memorial Quilts

** The World Trade Center / Pentagon / Pennsylvania Memorial Quilt

** New Zealand: The New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt

** Second Life AIDS Memorial Quilt

** Columbia University AIDS Memorial

** Person Memorial Hospital

** Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

** Horace W. Stunkard ( unsigned ) in Nature 225 ( 1970 ): 393-94 and in Biology of the Turbellaria ( 1974, " Libbie H. Hyman Memorial Volume "), pp. ix-xiii, with a bibliography

** The Calder Memorial Trophy, a trophy presented to the best rookie of the year in the National Hockey League, in North America

** Memorial Stadium: Football