World War II - Operation Nordwind
Time: Sunday Dec 31, 1944
Place: Alsace and Lorraine, France and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Details: Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive in the war. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945. The German offensive was a failure, failing to destroy the Allied forces.
Related
Near
Beatus Rhenanus Brith
Saturday Aug 22, 1485 - 67560, Rosheim, Bas-Rhin, France
Roman Empire-Gallienus proclaimed his elder son Valerian II caesar
256 - Danube region
Albrecht Kossel-Studying Medicine
1872 - Strasbourg, France
Albrecht Kossel-Research Assistant
1870s - Strasbourg, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was put in command of the French Fifth Army's tanks
1939 - France
Jean-Franois Rewbell Birth
Sunday Oct 8, 1747 - Colmar
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked at Bitche
Tuesday Sep 12, 1939 - Bitche, France
Bicycle-Bikes in World War II
1940s - Europe
Mohamed Salah-To Basel
Tuesday Apr 10, 2012 - Stadion Rankhof in Basel, Switzerland
Jakob Bernoulli Birth
Wednesday Jan 6, 1655 - Basel
Johann Hebel Birth
Saturday May 10, 1760 - Basel
The Burning of Medical Books by Paracelsus
Friday Jun 24, 1527 - Basle
Holy Roman Empire-Golden Bull of Sicily
Wednesday Sep 26, 1212 - Basel, Holy Roman Empire
Bretton Woods Conference-Bank for International Settlements
Saturday May 17, 1930 - Basel, Switzerland
Heysel Stadium Events-1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup
Wednesday May 16, 1984 at 04:11:00 PM - St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland
Shimon Peres-Mapai delegation
1946 - Basel, Switzerland
On This Day - 31 December
Roman Empire-Commodus died
Monday Dec 31, 192 - Rome, Roman Empire
Hot Dog-It was used to mean a sausage
Saturday Dec 31, 1892 - Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
Louis Armstrong-Arrested
Tuesday Dec 31, 1912 - New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Benito Mussolini-Warings to Mussolini
Wednesday Dec 31, 1924 - Italy
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-The Indian Flag in Lahore
Tuesday Dec 31, 1929 - Lahore, Pakistan
River Phoenix-Phoenix's mother
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - New York City, U.S.
World War II-Operation Ichi-Go
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, China
Korean War-Chinese New Year's Offensive
Sunday Dec 31, 1950 - North Korea
Bay of Pigs Invasion-Batista Resigned and Fled into Exile
Wednesday Dec 31, 1958 - Cuba
Fidel Castro-Batista's Escape
Wednesday Dec 31, 1958 - Cuba
The Beatles-McCartney filed a suit
Thursday Dec 31, 1970 - England
Indira Gandhi-The Garibi Hatao Programme
Thursday Dec 31, 1970 - New Delhi, India
Ted Bundy-Bundy was already in Chicago
Saturday Dec 31, 1977 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz-FBI closing files
Monday Dec 31, 1979 - Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
Carlos the Jackal-Bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train
Saturday Dec 31, 1983 - Marseille, France
Carlos the Jackal-Bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles
Saturday Dec 31, 1983 - Marseille, France
Croatian War of Independence-Croatian Army expansion
Tuesday Dec 31, 1991 - Croatia
First Chechen War-Major Russian defeat
Saturday Dec 31, 1994 - Chechnya, Russia
1997 Asian financial crisis-the rate was almost exactly 8,000 to 1 U.S. dollar
Thursday Dec 31, 1998 - Indonesia
Vladimir Putin-President of the Russian Federation
Friday Dec 31, 1999 - Moscow, Russia
Eiffel Tower-Countdown to the Year 2000
Friday Dec 31, 1999 - Paris, France
Eiffel Tower-The lights sparkled blue for several nights to herald the new millennium
Sunday Dec 31, 2000 - Paris, France
Visa Inc.-Exemption expired
Monday Dec 31, 2007 - Europe
Bank of America-Countrywide provided mortgage servicing for nine million mortgages valued at $1.4 trillion
Monday Dec 31, 2007 - Calabasas, California, U.S.
Marvel Studios-The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment
Thursday Dec 31, 2009 - U.S.
Lula da Silva-Not to allow extradition was officially announced
Friday Dec 31, 2010 - Brazil
Magdi Yacoub-The Order of Merit
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013 - London, England
Rwandan genocide-The ICTR officially closed
Thursday Dec 31, 2015 - Rwanda
Oppo-First 5G phone
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019 - Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 Coronavirus outbreak-China begins getting isolated
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019 - China
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis-U.S. embassy attacks in Baghdad
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019 - Baghdad, Iraq
Executing of Edmund
Monday Dec 31, 1460 - Rutland
Spurzheim Birth
Tuesday Dec 31, 1776 - Trier
Battle of Quebec
Sunday Dec 31, 1775 - Quebec
31 December 1944
River Phoenix-Phoenix's mother
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - New York City, U.S.
World War II-Operation Ichi-Go
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, China
December 1944
Adolf Hitler-Ardennes Offensive
Saturday Dec 16, 1944 - Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany
World War II-Operation Queen
Saturday Dec 16, 1944 - Rur valley, Germany
World War II-Battle of the Bulge
Saturday Dec 16, 1944 - The Ardennes: Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was promoted to General of the Army
Wednesday Dec 20, 1944 - U.S.
World War II-Battle of Leyte
Tuesday Dec 26, 1944 - Leyte Island, Philippines
River Phoenix-Phoenix's mother
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - New York City, U.S.
World War II-Operation Ichi-Go
Sunday Dec 31, 1944 - Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, China
1944
Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge-Bronze star medal
1944 - Guam
Akio Morita-Graduation
1944 - Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Hirohito-The effect of The U.S. air raids on the cities of Japan
1944 - Tokyo, Japan
Muhammad Yunus-Moving To The City of Chittagong
1944 - Chittagong, Bangladesh
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Emalia's Peak
1944 - Kraków, Poland
Rosa Parks-Rosa investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor
1944 - Alabama, U.S.
Rosa Parks-Rosa held a brief job at Maxwell Air Force Base
1944 - Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
World Bank-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
John Maynard Keynes-Bretton Woods system
1944 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle lived at the Connaught Hotel
1944 - London, England, United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle-Roosevelt to recognize de Gaulle
1944 - U.S.
World War II-Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive
Friday Jan 14, 1944 - Leningrad, Novgorod and Narva, U.S.S.R.
Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky's incident with the Boston Police
Saturday Jan 15, 1944 - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
World War II-Battle of Monte Cassino
Monday Jan 17, 1944 - Monte Cassino, Italy
World War II-Battle of Anzio
Saturday Jan 22, 1944 - Anzio and Nettuno, Italy
Library of Congress-MacLeish resigned
1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
World War II-Siege of Leningrad ended
Thursday Jan 27, 1944 - Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle's speech at the opening of the Brazzaville Conference
Sunday Jan 30, 1944 - Brazzaville, Congo
Max Planck-His Home was Destroyed
Feb, 1944 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Battle of Narva
Wednesday Feb 2, 1944 - Narva, Estonia
Computer-Colossus's First Attack
Saturday Feb 5, 1944 - Bletchley Park, Sherwood Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England
World War II-Operation Hailstone
Thursday Feb 17, 1944 - Truk, Caroline Islands
Pope John Paul II-Hit a German Trunk
Tuesday Feb 29, 1944 - Karkow, Poland
Atlantic Charter-Churchill argued for an interpretation of the charter in order to allow the Soviet Union to continue to control the Baltic states
Mar, 1944 - U.S.
World War II-Operation U-Go
Mar, 1944 - Manipur, India
Algerian War-Equality of rights was proclaimed
Tuesday Mar 7, 1944 - Algeria
Itzak Stern-Schindler decided to open a new factory
1944 - Płaszów, Poland
The Holocaust-Hitler ordered the military occupation of Hungary
Sunday Mar 19, 1944 - Hungary
Russian Invasion of Ukraine-Ukraine non-nuclear-weapon state in 1994
Mar, 1944 - Ukraine
The Holocaust-Jews were required to wear the yellow star in Hungary
Wednesday Mar 22, 1944 - Hungary
Penicillin-Fermentation research on corn steep liquor at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory
1944 - Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Illinois, U.S.
World War II-Crimean Offensive
Saturday Apr 8, 1944 - Crimea, U.S.S.R.
Nelson Mandela-The African National Congress Youth League
1944 - Johannesburg, South Africa
World War II-Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive ended
Monday Apr 17, 1944 - Ukraine, Romania, Eastern Poland, Moldavia and Carpathian Mountains
The Holocaust-Croatia was declared as Judenfrei
Tuesday Apr 18, 1944 - Croatia, Yugoslavia
Second Sino-Japanese War-Operation Ichi-Go
Wednesday Apr 19, 1944 - Henan, China - Hunan, China - Guangxi, China
The Wright brothers-A Long Flight
Wednesday Apr 19, 1944 - Burbank, California, U.S.
Bretton Woods Conference-International Monetary Fund
Friday Apr 21, 1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
World War II-Western New Guinea Campaign
Saturday Apr 22, 1944 - Territory of New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-Gandhi's release
Friday May 5, 1944 - India
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip moved on to the HMS Whelp
1944 - Pacific Ocean
The Holocaust-Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau
May, 1944 - Poland
The Holocaust-Jews were deported from Hungary
May, 1944 - Hungary
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Townsend was appointed Comptroller of Margaret's mother's restructured household
1944 - England, United Kingdom
Josip Broz Tito-Operation Rösselsprung
Thursday May 25, 1944 - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
Bretton Woods Conference-The U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference
Thursday May 25, 1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
World War II-Battle of Changsha (1944)
May, 1944 - Changsha and Hengyang, China
World War II-Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
Jun, 1944 - Mariana and Palau Islands, Pacific Ocean
Josip Broz Tito-The Balkan Air Force was formed
Jun, 1944 - Yugoslavia
World War II-Rome was captured
Sunday Jun 4, 1944 - Rome, Italy
Adolf Hitler-Battle of Normandy
Tuesday Jun 6, 1944 - Northern France, France
Dwight D. Eisenhower-The D-Day
Tuesday Jun 6, 1944 - Normandy, U.S.
Statue of Liberty-V for Victory
1944 - New York, U.S.
World War II-First Jassy–Kishinev offensive failed
Tuesday Jun 6, 1944 - Eastern Romania
Winston Churchill-D-Day
Tuesday Jun 6, 1944 - Normandy, France
World War II-D-Day
Wednesday Jun 7, 1944 - Normandy, France
Benito Mussolini-The fascist republic fought against the partisans
Jun, 1944 - Italy
Winston Churchill-Churchill made his first visit to Normandy
Monday Jun 12, 1944 - Normandy, France
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle left Britain for France
Wednesday Jun 14, 1944 - France
Bretton Woods Conference-Preliminary conference
Thursday Jun 15, 1944 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle meet the Pope and the new Italian government
Friday Jun 16, 1944 - Rome, Italy
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle flew to Algiers
Friday Jun 16, 1944 - Algiers, Algeria
Josip Broz Tito-The Treaty of Vis
Saturday Jun 17, 1944 - the Dalmatian island of Vis, Croatia
World War II-Battle of the Philippine Sea
Monday Jun 19, 1944 - The Philippine Sea
World War II-Battle of Kohima ended
Friday Jun 23, 1944 - Kohima, Nagaland, India
Library of Congress-Harry Truman appointed Luther H. Evans as librarian of Congress
1944 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Brünnlitz
Jul, 1944 - Brünnlitz, Czech Republic
International Monetary Fund-Bretton Woods Conference
Saturday Jul 1, 1944 - Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States
World Bank-Bretton Woods conference
Saturday Jul 1, 1944 - New Hampshire, United States
Bretton Woods Conference-Bretton Woods Conference
Saturday Jul 1, 1944 - New Hampshire, United States
World War II-Japanese left Imphal
Monday Jul 3, 1944 - Imphal, Manipur, India
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle arrival at RAF Northolt
Tuesday Jul 4, 1944 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
Thursday Jul 13, 1944 - Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland
World War II-Invasion of Normandy
Sunday Jul 16, 1944 - Normandy, France
Benito Mussolini-Massacre in Florence
Monday Jul 17, 1944 - Italy
Bretton Woods Conference-The main goal of the conference
Wednesday Jul 19, 1944 - New Hampshire, United States
Adolf Hitler-20 July plot assassination attempt
Thursday Jul 20, 1944 - Rastenburg, Germany (Now Poland)
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels continued to press Hitler to bring the economy to a total war footing
Jul, 1944 - Berlin, Germany
Mao Zedong-The Dixie Mission
Saturday Jul 22, 1944 - China
World War II-Hideki Tojo resignation
Saturday Jul 22, 1944 - Japan
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels appointed as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War
Sunday Jul 23, 1944 - Germany
The Holocaust-Majdanek encountered by Allied troops
Tuesday Jul 25, 1944 - Lublin, Poland
Winston Churchill-King Victor Emmanuel sacked Mussolini
Tuesday Jul 25, 1944 - Rome, Italy
World War II-Polish Committee of National Liberation
Wednesday Jul 26, 1944 - Poland
The Holocaust-Warsaw Uprising
Tuesday Aug 1, 1944 - Warsaw, Poland
World War II-Siege of Myitkyina
Friday Aug 4, 1944 - Myitkyina, Burma
Pope John Paul II-Black Sunday
Sunday Aug 6, 1944 - Karkow, Poland
World War II-Japanese captured Hengyang
Wednesday Aug 9, 1944 - Hengyang, Hunan, China
World War II-Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive - Military Stalemate
Thursday Aug 10, 1944 at 12:52:00 AM - Finland and U.S.S.R.
Charles de Gaulle-General Charles de Gaulle and his entourage set off service of thanksgiving following the city's liberation
Aug, 1944 - Paris, France
John F. Kennedy-Older brother killed
Saturday Aug 12, 1944 - The English Canal, United Kingdom
World War II-Falaise Pocket
Sunday Aug 13, 1944 - Normandy, France
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Invasion of Southern France
Tuesday Aug 15, 1944 - Southern France
World War II-Operation Dragoon
Wednesday Aug 16, 1944 - Southern France
World War II-Operation Bagration - Great defeat
Saturday Aug 19, 1944 - Belarus, Baltic states, Ukraine, and eastern Poland
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle allowed to entered Paris
Sunday Aug 20, 1944 - Paris, France
World War II-Jassy–Kishinev Offensive
Sunday Aug 20, 1944 - Romania
Charles de Gaulle-Gaulle had appointed his military advisor General Marie-Pierre Koenig
Monday Aug 21, 1944 - Paris, France
World War II-King Michael's Coup
Wednesday Aug 23, 1944 - Romania
Eiffel Tower-Tricolour up again
Friday Aug 25, 1944 - Paris, France