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Events edit
- January 20 - The Nazi Party holds the Wannsee Conference, where they decide that the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" is deportations to extermination camps.
- February 18 to March 4 - The Sook Ching (the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans and Chinese Malayans by Imperial Japan) is carried out.
- February 19 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, legalizing the transportation of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps.
- March 25 - The first mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp takes place.
- April 9 - The Bataan Death March: Imperial Japanese military forces force American and Filipino POWs to march 60 miles from Bataan to Camp O'Donnell. Between 5,650 to 18,000 POWs die during the march.
- June 4 - Reinhard Heydrich dies from wounds suffered in Prague during an assassination attempt by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers. Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds him as head of the Reich Main Security Office.
- June 4 to 7 - The Battle of Midway is fought.
- June 10 - The Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- July 23 - The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp begin operation, killing 6,500 Jews newly arrived from the Warsaw Ghetto.
- August 16 - Massacre of Alía: 24 Spanish civilians are executed by the Spanish Civil Guard on Francisco Franco's orders after being accused of supporting anti-Franco guerrillas.
- October 14 - The Ukrainian Insurgent Army is founded.
- October 18 - Adolf Hitler issues the Commando Order, which stipulates that all Allied commandos encountered by German forces should be executed immediately without trial.
- December 2 - Georgios Tsolakoglou is dismissed as Prime Minister of the Hellenic State. Konstantinos Logothetopoulos is chosen to replace him.
Births edit
Villain births edit
- January 23 - Agathe Habyarimana
- February 3 - Leoluca Bagarella
- February 4 - Dragomir Milošević
- March 13 - José Barrionuevo
- March 17 - John Wayne Gacy
- March 20 - Earl Bramblett
- April 12 - Jacob Zuma
- May 22 - Ted Kaczynski
- June 5 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
- June 7 - Muammar Gaddafi
- July 1 - Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
- July 8 - Charles Schmid
- July 23 - Myra Hindley
- July 26 - Vladimír Mečiar
- August 28 - José Eduardo dos Santos
- September 13 - Hissène Habré
- September 15 - Emmerson Mnangagwa
- October 7 - James Wickstrom
- October 11 - James Oliver Huberty
- October 27 - Janusz Korwin-Mikke
- November 17 - Kang Kek Iew
- December 17 - Muhammad Buhari
- Unknown - Emanuel Morre
Victim births edit
- June 28 - Chris Hani
- November 4 - Roxanne Ellis
Deaths edit
Villain deaths edit
- January 17 - Walther von Reichenau
- February 13 - Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan
- February 19 - Frank Abbandando
- February 24 - Anton Drexler
- March 23 - Franz Walter Stahlecker
- June 2 - Christian Von Schalburg
- June 4 - Reinhard Heydrich
- June 25 - Gordon Cummins
- September 20 - Walther von Lüttwitz
- November 9 - Eddie Leonski