Delegates from forty-four nations met at the secluded Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to participate in the Bretton Woods Conference. The conference met to establish the post-war economic order and was one of the most significant events of the 20th Century.
Henry Morgenthau was the chief U.S. delegate to the conference, and was rapidly elected its presiding officer. Harry Dexter White, who was a Soviet spy, was the chief US delegate in fact and a major factor in the resulting plans.
The II SS Panzer Corps attacked British positions around Caen but was repulsed. Gerd von Rundstedt phoned Berlin to report the failure to which Chief of Staff Wilhelm Keitel purportedly asked, "What shall we do?", to which Rundstedt replied, "Make peace, you fools! What else can you do?"
The U.S. 133d Infantry Regiment captured Cicina, Italy.
The Red Army took Borisov.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Public Health Service Act and the Renunciation Act of 1944. The latter allowed people physically present in the U.S. to renounce citizenship when the country was at war. It required an application to the Attorney General of the United States in order to do so.
The act sought to have Japanese Americans do that very thing, sot hey could later be deported to Japan. A total of 5,589 American citizens availed themselves of the act, 5,461 coming from the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Many came to regret their decision, and some of the renunciations were reversed.
