** 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.

** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor

** Terminology of the British Isles, discusses the sometimes ambiguous or contentious names for parts of the island group

** bmi baby, a defunct low-cost airline, subsidiary of British Midland International

** bmi regional, a regional airline, subsidiary of British Midland International

** Mine Exploder T2 Flail: British Crab I mine flail.

** Mine Exploder T3 Flail: Based on British Scorpion flail.

** Mine Exploder T4: British Crab II mine flail.

** New England fiddling, with strong influences from Québécois and British repertoires.

** Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

** Petroleum spirit ( North American term: gasoline, British term: petrol )

** Colonial heads of British Cameroon ( Cameroons )

** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season

** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994

** BMS: British Mycological Society ( United Kingdom )

** Norse activity in the British Isles

** British Agricultural Revolution / Neolithic Revolution

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** Online Variorum, showing every change between the six British editions.

** 2 Empire Awards nominations "' Best British Film, Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy "'

** British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Achievement in Production

** Theatre of the United Kingdom – introduced by the Romans and part of the British culture since at least 1585.

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

** Whippet Club of British Columbia

** British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

** Ben Ainslie, British sailor