After spending most of the day studying maps of Stalingrad and the surrounding area, Andrey Yeryomenko had a second conference with Stalin. Yeryomenko protested that two Russian fronts in the same area meant that trying to co-ordinate Stalingrad's defence with another commander would be "utterly confusing, if not tragically impossible," and asked to command the
Stalingrad Front in the north rather than the
Southeastern Front. Stalin firmly said that everything would be left as it was already outlined.[2]
A man named José Gallardo Díaz was found unconscious and dying on a road near a swimming hole in
Commerce, California. He was rushed to the hospital but died shortly after. 17 Mexican-American youths were soon arrested in a case that came to be known as the
Sleepy Lagoon murder.
The German
4th Panzer Army crossed the Aksay River in its drive on Stalingrad.[4]
Yeremenko flew down to Stalingrad in a Douglas transport aircraft. Commissar
Nikita Khrushchev met him at the airport with a car and they drove to the city's headquarters.[5]
The
Bracero program was initiated when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with
Mexico.
Citing documents seized in a raid on
Indian National Congress headquarters in
Allahabad, the British government accused
Mahatma Gandhi and the majority of his party of working toward "appeasement" of Japan.[6]
Anthony Eden announced in the House of Commons that the
Munich Agreement of 1938 would play no part in the postwar settlement of Czechoslovakia's borders, because the British government no longer considered itself bound to that agreement since the Germans destroyed it.[8]
For aiding an escaped German prisoner of war, Detroit restaurant owner Max Stephan became the first American sentenced to execution for treason since the
Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.[6]
The British submarine
HMS Thorn went missing off southern Crete, probably sunk by the Italian torpedo boat
Pegaso.
The Germans lost three submarines in one day. U-210 was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, U-612 sank off
Gotenhafen, Germany after colliding with U-444, and U-578 went missing in the
Bay of Biscay. Her fate remains unknown.
Bombay police arrested Mahatma Gandhi and fifty other members of the
Indian National Congress a few hours before a massive
civil disobedience campaign was to begin. Five people were killed later in the day when police fired on crowds of people who were jeering and throwing stones.[1]
Al Milnar of the
Cleveland Indians and
Tommy Bridges of the
Detroit Tigers had one of the most epic pitchers' duels in baseball history. With the game locked in a scoreless tie in the top of the ninth inning, Milnar lost a
no-hitter with two out when
Doc Cramer singled to right field. Both pitchers maintained their shutouts until the fifteenth inning when the game was finally called in a 0–0 tie.[19]
Elements of German Army Group A reached
Slavyansk.[14]
During
Operation Pedestal the British cruiser Cairo and British destroyer Foresight were sunk, and the tanker Ohio was severely damaged and had to be taken under tow.
Movie star
Clark Gable entered a U.S. Army recruiting station in Los Angeles and enlisted as a private at the age of 41.[20]
On the Eastern Front, German forces captured
Elista.[21]
During Operation Pedestal the British cruiser Manchester was torpedoed and heavily damaged by two Italian motor torpedo boats and then scuttled.
Japan passed the
Enemy Airmen's Act, stating that Allied airmen participating in bombing raids against Japanese-held territory would be treated as "violators of the
law of war" and subject to trial and punishment if captured.
Axis positions in Egypt were bombed by American warplanes for the first time.[14]
In
Bilbao,
Spain, a mass was held at the
Basilica of Begoña to commemorate members of the Begoña Regiment who died in the
Civil War. After the service there was some shouting between the
Falangist and
Carlist factions, and during the ensuing scuffle a Falangist threw two hand grenades and wounded 30 people.[24]
900 Japanese troops landed at Taivu Point on Guadalcanal, while another 500 landed at
Kokumbona. These landings were the first run of what the U.S. Marines nicknamed the
Tokyo Express.[26]
In
Stalingrad Oblast, Soviet forces withdrew southwest of Kletskaya while the Germans renewed their offensive northeast of
Kotelnikovo.[27]
Hitler issued
Directive No. 46, Instructions for Intensified Action Against Banditry in the East.
The
Dieppe Raid took place on the northern coast of France. The operation was virtually a complete failure and almost 60% of the 6,086 men who made it ashore were killed, wounded or captured.[28] The British destroyer Berkeley was crippled by
Focke-Wulf Fw 190s and scuttled.
Mahatma Gandhi's son
Devdas was arrested in New Delhi for publishing an article on the Indian civil disobedience campaign in violation of the
Defence of India Act.[27]
Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after the sinking of several Brazilian ships.[1]
The German
16th Panzer Division began crossing the Don as soon as the bridgehead was ready.[5]
The American destroyer
USS Blue was torpedoed and crippled at
Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Guadalcanal by the Japanese destroyer Kawakaze. She was scuttled the next day after salvage attempts failed.
The Luftwaffe conducted the first major bombing raid on Stalingrad.[29] A rain of incendiary and explosive bombs killed more than 40,000 civilians and reduced most of the city to rubble.[30]
The German 16th Panzer Division came within striking distance of the
Stalingrad Tractor Factory, the Soviet Union's largest producer of
T-34 tanks.[31]
The U.S. Army occupied
Adak Island. Runways would be constructed there over the next two weeks allowing for air strikes against the nearby Japanese-held islands of
Attu and
Kiska.[38]
^
abcBertke, Donald A.; Kindell, Don; Smith, Gordon (2013). World War II Sea War, Vol 6: The Allies Halt the Axis Advance. Lulu.com. p. 439.
ISBN978-1-937470-09-8.
^Breuer, William B. (2003). The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II. John Wiley & Sons. p. 89.
ISBN978-0-471-46773-1.
^Schramm, Percy Ernst (1963). Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht, 1940–1945 Teilband II. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen. p. 583.
^Marley, David F. (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd Ed. ABC-CLIO, Inc. p. 1016.
ISBN978-1-59884-100-8.
^Polmar, Norman (2006). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Volume I - 1909-1945. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 290.
ISBN978-1-57488-663-4.
^Loeffel, Robert (2012). The Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 39.
ISBN978-0-230-34305-4.
After spending most of the day studying maps of Stalingrad and the surrounding area, Andrey Yeryomenko had a second conference with Stalin. Yeryomenko protested that two Russian fronts in the same area meant that trying to co-ordinate Stalingrad's defence with another commander would be "utterly confusing, if not tragically impossible," and asked to command the
Stalingrad Front in the north rather than the
Southeastern Front. Stalin firmly said that everything would be left as it was already outlined.[2]
A man named José Gallardo Díaz was found unconscious and dying on a road near a swimming hole in
Commerce, California. He was rushed to the hospital but died shortly after. 17 Mexican-American youths were soon arrested in a case that came to be known as the
Sleepy Lagoon murder.
The German
4th Panzer Army crossed the Aksay River in its drive on Stalingrad.[4]
Yeremenko flew down to Stalingrad in a Douglas transport aircraft. Commissar
Nikita Khrushchev met him at the airport with a car and they drove to the city's headquarters.[5]
The
Bracero program was initiated when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with
Mexico.
Citing documents seized in a raid on
Indian National Congress headquarters in
Allahabad, the British government accused
Mahatma Gandhi and the majority of his party of working toward "appeasement" of Japan.[6]
Anthony Eden announced in the House of Commons that the
Munich Agreement of 1938 would play no part in the postwar settlement of Czechoslovakia's borders, because the British government no longer considered itself bound to that agreement since the Germans destroyed it.[8]
For aiding an escaped German prisoner of war, Detroit restaurant owner Max Stephan became the first American sentenced to execution for treason since the
Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.[6]
The British submarine
HMS Thorn went missing off southern Crete, probably sunk by the Italian torpedo boat
Pegaso.
The Germans lost three submarines in one day. U-210 was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, U-612 sank off
Gotenhafen, Germany after colliding with U-444, and U-578 went missing in the
Bay of Biscay. Her fate remains unknown.
Bombay police arrested Mahatma Gandhi and fifty other members of the
Indian National Congress a few hours before a massive
civil disobedience campaign was to begin. Five people were killed later in the day when police fired on crowds of people who were jeering and throwing stones.[1]
Al Milnar of the
Cleveland Indians and
Tommy Bridges of the
Detroit Tigers had one of the most epic pitchers' duels in baseball history. With the game locked in a scoreless tie in the top of the ninth inning, Milnar lost a
no-hitter with two out when
Doc Cramer singled to right field. Both pitchers maintained their shutouts until the fifteenth inning when the game was finally called in a 0–0 tie.[19]
Elements of German Army Group A reached
Slavyansk.[14]
During
Operation Pedestal the British cruiser Cairo and British destroyer Foresight were sunk, and the tanker Ohio was severely damaged and had to be taken under tow.
Movie star
Clark Gable entered a U.S. Army recruiting station in Los Angeles and enlisted as a private at the age of 41.[20]
On the Eastern Front, German forces captured
Elista.[21]
During Operation Pedestal the British cruiser Manchester was torpedoed and heavily damaged by two Italian motor torpedo boats and then scuttled.
Japan passed the
Enemy Airmen's Act, stating that Allied airmen participating in bombing raids against Japanese-held territory would be treated as "violators of the
law of war" and subject to trial and punishment if captured.
Axis positions in Egypt were bombed by American warplanes for the first time.[14]
In
Bilbao,
Spain, a mass was held at the
Basilica of Begoña to commemorate members of the Begoña Regiment who died in the
Civil War. After the service there was some shouting between the
Falangist and
Carlist factions, and during the ensuing scuffle a Falangist threw two hand grenades and wounded 30 people.[24]
900 Japanese troops landed at Taivu Point on Guadalcanal, while another 500 landed at
Kokumbona. These landings were the first run of what the U.S. Marines nicknamed the
Tokyo Express.[26]
In
Stalingrad Oblast, Soviet forces withdrew southwest of Kletskaya while the Germans renewed their offensive northeast of
Kotelnikovo.[27]
Hitler issued
Directive No. 46, Instructions for Intensified Action Against Banditry in the East.
The
Dieppe Raid took place on the northern coast of France. The operation was virtually a complete failure and almost 60% of the 6,086 men who made it ashore were killed, wounded or captured.[28] The British destroyer Berkeley was crippled by
Focke-Wulf Fw 190s and scuttled.
Mahatma Gandhi's son
Devdas was arrested in New Delhi for publishing an article on the Indian civil disobedience campaign in violation of the
Defence of India Act.[27]
Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after the sinking of several Brazilian ships.[1]
The German
16th Panzer Division began crossing the Don as soon as the bridgehead was ready.[5]
The American destroyer
USS Blue was torpedoed and crippled at
Ironbottom Sound during the Battle of Guadalcanal by the Japanese destroyer Kawakaze. She was scuttled the next day after salvage attempts failed.
The Luftwaffe conducted the first major bombing raid on Stalingrad.[29] A rain of incendiary and explosive bombs killed more than 40,000 civilians and reduced most of the city to rubble.[30]
The German 16th Panzer Division came within striking distance of the
Stalingrad Tractor Factory, the Soviet Union's largest producer of
T-34 tanks.[31]
The U.S. Army occupied
Adak Island. Runways would be constructed there over the next two weeks allowing for air strikes against the nearby Japanese-held islands of
Attu and
Kiska.[38]
^
abcBertke, Donald A.; Kindell, Don; Smith, Gordon (2013). World War II Sea War, Vol 6: The Allies Halt the Axis Advance. Lulu.com. p. 439.
ISBN978-1-937470-09-8.
^Breuer, William B. (2003). The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales from Home-Front America in World War II. John Wiley & Sons. p. 89.
ISBN978-0-471-46773-1.
^Schramm, Percy Ernst (1963). Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht, 1940–1945 Teilband II. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen. p. 583.
^Marley, David F. (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd Ed. ABC-CLIO, Inc. p. 1016.
ISBN978-1-59884-100-8.
^Polmar, Norman (2006). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Volume I - 1909-1945. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 290.
ISBN978-1-57488-663-4.
^Loeffel, Robert (2012). The Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 39.
ISBN978-0-230-34305-4.