The British took Deume, Netherlands. 30th Corps reached the south bank of the Rhine near Arnhem. Other elements entered Germany southwest of Nijmegen.
The Italian government reopened the case of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti which had occurred in 1924.
The U-596 was damaged by US aircraft in Salamis Bay and scuttled.
Task Force 38 hit Japanese targets on the Visayan Islands.
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Communist Pole Boleslaw Bierut became the usurper president of the Russian backed Polish provisional government.
The U.S. Army entered Germany in a patrol by the 2nd Platoon, Troop B, 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 5th Armored Division. No Germans were encountered.
The US 1st Army took Malmedy. The 7th Army took Digon and linked up iwth the 3d Army, uniting the forces of Overlord and Dragoon.
South Africans captured Pistoia, Italy.
The Octagon Conference between Churchill and Roosevelt started in Quebec.
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Operation Overlord officially concluded.
A French government was operating again in Paris and massive parts of the country had been cleared of the Germans.
The Red Army took Polesti, the oil refining center of Romania. Most of the Romanian oilfields had already been taken by the Soviets.
The 8th Army commenced assaults on the Gothic Line.
Filipino writer and guerilla Manuel Estabillo Arguilla was beheaded by the Japanese.
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The Kaunas Offensive in Lithuania ended in a Red Army victory.
The 1st Army crossed the Marne at Meaux.
German garrisons at Toulon and Marseilles surrendered. The encircled 11th Panzer Division begins a breakout offensive towards the north.
The BBC began Southeast Asian broadcasts in Dutch and French.
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The French 4th Armored Division entered Paris in the evening.
Germany closed theaters, cancelled holidays and cancelled military leave.
The First Canadian Army captured Bernay and crossed the Risle River at Nassandres.
The 51st SS-Brigade murdered 68 civilians of all ages in Buchères, France.
The 7th Army took Cannes.
The German Army Group South Ukraine line collapses with the switch in sides of Romania.
The USS Harder was sunk in Dasol Bay by the Japanese.
The U-354 and U-445 were sunk by the Royal Navy.
The Royal Navy unsuccessfully tried again for the Tirpitz.
IBM's Harvard Mark I electro-mechanical computer was formally presented to Harvard University.
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Philippe Pétain was arrested by the Germans for his refusal to a German demand that he leave France.
The Battle of Toulon began.
While the Falaise Gap was closed, Germana units continued to escape through gaps in the line.
The 3d Army captured Seine River crossings at Mantes Grassicourt and entered Fontainbleau.
The Allies bombed Buna Werke POW camp in Poland in error, killing 39 British POWs.
The Soviets began the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive in Romania.
The U-188 was scuttled in Bordeaux, the U-9 was sunk at Constanța in a Soviet air raid, U-413 was lost to a mine in the Cornish corridor, U-984 was sunk by Canadian warships in the Bay of Biscay and the U-1229 was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Allied aircraft.
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A second, nearly forgotten invasion of France, this time in the south, commenced.
Operation Dragoon.
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The Siege of Mytkyina in Burma ended in an Allied victory over the Japanese.
The HMS Quon was sunk off of Normandy by German aircraft and ships.
The US 1st Army captured Mortain. The 30th Infantry Division would win a Presidential Unit Citation for its defense to a German counterattack there.
The Germans blew up the bridges in Florence, Italy.
The USSR and Lebanon established diplomatic relations.
The British Education Act 1944 received Royal Assent.
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The last of the gypsies were murdered at Auschwitz. 4,200 people were murdered.
In their memory, this is Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma.
Clearly seeing which way the wind was blowing, Turkey broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
The Germans launched 316 V-1s on London. 100 reached the city.
The Allies ceased air strikes on French bridges as the pace of Allied advances increased.
The newly activated 3d Army reached Dinan and the outskirts of Rennes. The 1st Army captured Villedieu.
The USS Fiske was sunk in the Atlantic by the U-804.
German midget submarines attacked Allied shipping in the Channel and sank two vessels, including the HMS Quorn. Of the 58 German Marder submarines used in the attack, only 19 survived.
Fighting continued on Guam, and in Warsaw.
The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz made its first combat flight, a reconnaissance mission over the Allied beachhead in Normandy.
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Operation Cobra concluded.
The month long Allied campaign on Noemfoor concluded with the island in Allied hands.
The Red Army reached the Praga district of Warsaw.
The Red Army also reached the Gulf of Riga, isolating the German's from land supply.
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