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** 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.

** and Winston
** NASCAR postponed the September 16 Winston Cup New Hampshire 300 race at Loudon until November 23.
** Winston Churchill scraps UK compulsory national Identity Cards.
** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
** WWII: War in the Pacific: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet at the Cairo Conference to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
** WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: " Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid.
** Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill ( b. 1911 )
** With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
** Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, " I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
** Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to " prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings.
** WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, " We shall not flag or fail.
** WWII: Winston Churchill says to the House of Commons: " The Battle of France is over.
** Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill ( born 1854 )
** Winston Churchill, Twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1965 )
** Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
** Vernon, Winston County, Mississippi
** John Lennon officially changes his name from John Winston Lennon to John Winston Ono-Lennon.
** NASCAR Winston Cup Championship – Cale Yarborough
** Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
** Winston Cup Championship-Dale Earnhardt
** Rance McDaniel won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
** Darrell Gwynn won Top Fuel at the NHRA Winston Finals
** USS Winston S. Churchill ( DDG-81 )

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