** 25 cent WWII ( Dutch coin )

** WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw.

** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** WWII – Winter War: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.

** George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII ( d. 2006 )

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

** WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.

** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.

** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.

** WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.

** WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.

** WWII: A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.

** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.

** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

** WWII – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two.

** 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.

** WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.

** WWII: Korea gains independence following Japan's surrender.

** 8 June 1946 – 20 December 1947: Erwin Müller ( b. 1906 – d. 1968 ), Non-party

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

** Erwin Rommel, German field marshal ( d. 1944 )

** Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, diplomat and revolutionary ( b. 1884 )

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicas Wien for Bach: St. Matthew Passion

** Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, New Jersey

** Ronald Erwin McNair High School in Atlanta, Georgia

** Ronald Erwin McNair Elementary School in Denton, Texas ( Denton ISD )

** Ronald Erwin McNair High School in Stockton, California

** Men's Competition won by Erwin Vervecken

** to Erwin Rommel at the Second Battle of El Alamein ( 1942 )

** Erwin Tomash ;

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Michael Brammann ( engineer ), Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( conductor ), Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner ( chorus masters ), Bernarda Fink, Matthias Goerne, Dietrich Henschel, Elisabeth von Magnus, Christoph Prégardien, Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Christine Schäfer, Markus Schäfer, Oliver Widmer, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Concentus Musicus Wien for Bach: St Matthew Passion

** Cannonball ( film ) ( 1976 ), a film inspired by Erwin G. " Cannon Ball " Baker and his race

** Cannonball Run ( disambiguation ), various things related to Erwin G. " Cannon Ball " Baker

** Medicine – Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann

** Erwin Ammann, a German politician and co-founder of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria ( 1916 – 2000 )

** Commanded by Generalmajor Erwin Engelbrecht

** Erwin Danuwinata, IPTN Expansion and flight tests leading to FAA / JAA certification

** Erwin H. Hagler of The Dallas Times Herald, for a series on the Western cowboy.

** Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is appointed commander of Afrika Korps.