** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police, sent a directive, the Schnellbrief, explaining that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones were to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils – Judenräte – would be established to carry out the German authorities ’ orders.

** Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

** Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate

** A. Reinhard, Justinus Kerner und das Kernerhaus zu Weinsberg ( Tübingen, 1862 ; 2nd ed.

** Reinhard Strohm ( Germany ), Musicology

** Reinhard Freikorps commanded by Colonel Wilhelm Reinhard.

** First published 1983 in German as Ökonomisches Kapital-Kulturelles Kapital-Soziales Kapital in Soziale Ungleichheiten, edited by Reinhard Kreckel, pp. 183 – 198.

** First Prize Winners ( 6 ): Hendrik Küpper / Frithjof Küpper / Martin Spiller ( DE ), Oliver Trapp ( DE ), Anders T. Skov ( DK ), Martin Hesselsoe ( DK ), Jean Byrne / Elizabeth Dowling ( IE ) and Dominik Zeiter / Ewald Amherd / Reinhard Fubber ( CH )

** Lost to Reinhard Skricek ( West Germany ) points

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

** Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief.

** President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

** ABC News ' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.

** 20 July 1881 — Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.

** Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of Ottoman empire.

** Robert H. Jackson, United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials ( d. 1954 )

** Hermeias, the favourite and chief minister of the Seleucid king Seleucus III and, for a short time, chief minister to Antiochus III

** George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer ( b. 1857 )

** Turlough Luineach O ' Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone ( b. c. 1530 )

** Hone Heke, Maori chief and war leader

** Antipater in control of Macedonia and Greece ( jointly with Alexander's chief lieutenant Craterus );

** Ronald Crawford, Scottish clan chief ( b. c. 1240 )

** Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England ( d. 1604 )

** Abi Ahmet Celebi, chief physician of the Ottoman Empire, ( b. 1436 )

** Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief ( d. 1620 )

** Agüeybaná, Taino chief

** Hayuya, Taino chief

** Lord Rollo, the clan chief

** Arsaces I, King of Parthia from 250 BC and son of Phriapites, a chief of the seminomadic Parni tribe from the Caspian steppes

** Thirteen red and white stripes and blue chief on shield

** Chan Wai-Man 陳惠敏 / 陈惠敏 ( 1946 -; born in Hong Kong ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Fui Mian ); Actor who is well known for triad chief roles

** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

** Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republic from 1939 to 1941.

** 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.

** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )

** Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.

** Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion.

** Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 2004 )

** American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois, closing the Falaise Gap.

** The Nazi authorities kill 117 Dutch men in reprisal for the attempted murder Hanns Albin Rauter.

** The Allied Forces liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

** Canadian soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam from Nazi occupation.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** The Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling is shot to death by a firing squad for treason against Norway.

** Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi general ( b. 1906 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist ( suicide ) ( b. 1897 )

** Bernhard Rust, Education Minister of Nazi Germany ( suicide ) ( b. 1883 )

** Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland ( b. 1900 )