American President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced an embargo on the export of oil and aviation fuel to anywhere outside the Western Hemisphere except the British Empire. This action was aimed at Japan

Japanese forces occupy Saigon, French Indochina

Eastern Galicia and Lvov are annexed to the German General Government, and the Białystok Ghetto is established

The United States extended Lend-Lease to apply to the Soviet Union

All civilian radios in Norway were confiscated by the German occupation

German Catholic Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen gave a sermon condemning the Nazi practice known as Aktion T4. The systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped. Thousands of copies of the sermon were distributed throughout Germany, breaking the secrecy that surrounded the euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4

German forces trap Red Army forces in Smolensk pocket and take 300,000 soldiers. German forces capture Orel

British Empire Bantamweight Boxing Title Jim Brady (GB) beat Jackie Paterson (GB) Pts 15, Hampden Park, Glasgow.

American and British Government warn Japan against threatening the independence and integrity of Thailand

Germans forces capture Smolensk

The Australian government warned that it would not stand by and watch Japanese expansion in the Pacific

Germans forces reach the Gulf of Finland, cutting the Soviet forces in Estonia in two. Soviet forces in Tallinn detached cut off

Charles Lindbergh made a speech in Cleveland in which he accused American interventionists of plotting to create "incidents and situations" that would plunge the United States into war "under the guise of defending America

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at NS Argentia, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter is created, signed, and released to the world press.

President Roosevelt and his representatives came aboard the Prince of Wales for a Sunday prayer service with Churchill, who later recalled the event as "a deeply moving expression of the unity of faith of our two peoples." Churchill selected the hymns himself, ending with "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"

During daylight raid on Rotterdam docks, British Bristol Blenheim aircraft dropped 500 Ils of tea bags from the Dutch East Indies for the local Dutch to find and enjoy

Adolf Hitler, against the advice of his generals, shifts German forces from the Moscow front to Leningrad and the Crimean offensives

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill jointly issued the Atlantic Charter, stating the Allied goals for the post-war world

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a joint message of assistance to the Soviet Union. "We realize fully how vitally important to the defeat of Hitlerism is the brave and steadfast resistance of the Soviet Union and we feel therefore that we must not in any circumstances fail to act quickly and immediately in this matter on planning the program for the future allocation of our joint resources," the statement concluded

Germans forces occupied the Soviet naval base at Mykolaiv and captured warships, ammunition and repair facilities

German forces capture the Russian city of Novgorod and the Estonian city of Narva

German forces reached the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. The Red Army dynamited the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station to delay the enemy from getting across the Dnieper, resulting in many civilian and military deaths

Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, the Aktion T4 programme was transferred to the SS concentration camps, where it continued in secret

Radio Belgrade played an obscure two-year-old German song called "Lili Marleen" sung by Lale Andersen. The song was an instant hit and became one of the most popular songs of the war among Axis and Allied troops alike fighting in North Africa

One British Bristol Blenheim aircraft flying over Rotterdam drops a spare artificial leg for Wing Commander Douglas Bader, who had had to leave one of his original artificial legs trapped in his crashing Supermarine Spitfire that had been shot down over the Netherlands. He had had to leave the leg behind to escape his doomed aircraft

Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement

Germans forces capture the Russian city Gomel

Drancy internment camp is established for French Jews at Sipo near Paris and staffed by French Gendarmes

German forces close in on Leningrad; the citizens continue improvising fortifications

British and Soviet forces invade Iran to save the Abadan oilfields and the important railways and routes to the Soviet Union for the supply of war material

Germans forces capture the city of Dnipropetrovsk

Disputed World Light-Heavyweight Boxing Title Gus Lesnevich (USA) beat Tami Mauriello (USA) pts 15, Madison Square Garden, New York City.