The Lwów Uprising by the Polish Home Army began. The uprising was a success in that it took large portions of the city as the Soviets arrived, but a failure in that the Soviets arrested the political leadership of the city, and then conscripted or arrested the Polish combatants.
The Red Army took Pskov, the last major town of the prewar USSR to be liberated, meaning that the Soviets were now fighting off of their soil, for the most part.
The last inmates at Treblinka were murdered.
The SS launched a manhunt for members of the July 20 plot.
The Canadian First Army became operational in Normandy.
US troops outside of Saint-Lô. The soldier closest to the camera is a NCO, identifiable by the horizontal stripe on his helmet, and is carrying a M3 "Grease Gun".
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