** 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.

** General Staff of the Armed Forces

** Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Attorney General

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** The Secretariat, the principal administrative mechanism of the CPC, headed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee ;

** Office of the General Counsel

** Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods ( CAC / STAN 106-1983, rev. 1 2003 )

** General Standard for the Labelling of Prepacked Foods ( CODEX STAN 1-1985 )

** United States Post Office Loop Station – General Post Office, Chicago

** General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

** GSA Office of Civil Rights, General Services Administration

** United Kingdom Postmaster General

** United States Postmaster General

** General transcription factor binding sites, e. g. TATA box

** General relativity, Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation

** General linear model

** 16 32-bit General purpose registers ( R0-R15 )

** General Motors introduces the Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and the Buick Sport Wagon.

** The Bolivian government of President Víctor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

** Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General ( d. 2007 )

** Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

** John Beradino, American baseball player and actor ( General Hospital ) ( d. 1996 )

** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.

** The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks reach a successful conclusion after 7 years.