All Jews under German rule must wear the yellow star of David badge with "Jew" clearly written in it, are forbidden to live with or marry non-Jews, and are forbidden to leave their towns without written consent, in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. The decree, signed by Reinhard Heydrich Director of the Gestapo

Finnish armies in the north completely cut off Leningrad. German forces also came within artillery range of Leningrad.

German heavy artillery began shelling Leningrad

German SS use Zyklon B experimentally at Auschwitz concentration camp, gassing 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick Polish prisoners. The experiment has been deemed a success

Finnish forces reconquer the Karelian Isthmus

The film Citizen Kane was released in the US

The Pavoloch massacre occurred when the Einsatzgruppen shot 1,500 Jews in the Ukrainian shtetl of Pavoloch

Japanese imperial conference decides Japan will go to war with the United States if the oil embargo is not lifted

Hitler issued Directive No. 35, Moscow Offensive. Army Group Centre was instructed to prepare for a drive on Moscow at the end of September

6,000 Jews were shot at Ponary, a day after the order to form the Vilna Ghetto was issued.

The results of a Gallup poll were published asking Americans, "Should the United States take steps now to keep Japan from becoming more powerful, even if it means risking a war with Japan?" 70% said yes, 18% said no and 12% expressed no opinion

German forces broke through Soviet defences near Konotop. German forces also capture Chernihiv

Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy began a three-day visit to Hitler at his Wolf's Lair.

Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia

The Siege of Leningrad begins as the city was encircled by German & Finnish forces

Football International: Slovakia 1-1 Croatia, Stadion Pasienky, Bratislava

Nazi-occupied Norway, martial law was declared and trade union officials were arrested to prevent a trade union plan for a general strike.

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Navy to shoot on sight if any ship or convoy is threatened

Charles Lindbergh made a speech on behalf of the America First Committee in Des Moines, Iowa which included remarks that would be instantly controversial: "The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." Lindbergh said he admired the British and Jewish races, but claimed that the Jews' "greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government."

Joseph Stalin fired Semyon Budyonny as Commander-in-Chief of the Southwest Direction and replaced him with Semyon Timoshenko

World Featherweight Boxing Title Chalky Wright (USA) beat Joey Archibald (USA) Ko 11, Griffith Stadium, Washington DC.

Soviet General Georgy Zhukov arrived in Leningrad to replace Kliment Voroshilov as the commanding officer of the city's garrison

German forces link up at Lokhvitsa, completing the encirclement of Kiev.

Football International: Sweden 2-2 Denmark, Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm

Hitler re-activated the rocket program at Peenemünde Army Research Center.

Dutch Jews are prohibited from appearing in public and are deprived of the majority of their assets. The deportation of Romanian Jews to Transnistria begins.

German SS Moving Aktion Group in Vilna Ghetto. Of 3,500 Jews "moved" between ghetto sections, only 550 arrive. The remaining 2,950 Jews are shot at the Ponary massacre death site.

Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, is forced to resign in favour of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran concluded. Great Britain and the Soviet Union set up a joint occupation of the country

Listening to foreign radio in the German Reich became punishable by death

The Soviet Union announced conscription for all males aged 16–50

Germans forces capture Kiev and take 500,000 Red Army soldiers prisoner

The Inter-Allied Council met in St James's Palace. Representatives of the Soviet Union and Free France as well the governments-in-exile of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia unanimously affirmed the common principles of the policy outlined in the Atlantic Charter.

The National Liberation Front (EAM) a resistance group is founded in Greece.

European Bantamweight Boxing Title Gino Bondavalli (Italy) beat Gino Cattaneo (Italy) Pts 15, Piazza San Prospero, Reggio Emilia.

Reinhard Heydrich Director of the Gestapo was appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

British convoy of supplies for the Soviet Union departed Iceland for Arkhangelsk.

Football International: Croatia 5-2 Slovakia, Stadion Concordije, Zagreb

German SS troops kill over 30,000 Jews at Babi Yar on the outskirts of Kiev, Soviet Ukraine, in response to sabotage efforts which the Germans attributed to local Jews.

The Moscow Conference began with representatives of Britain (Lord Beaverbrook), the United States (W Averell Harriman) and the Soviet Union (Vyacheslav Molotov) meeting for the first time in the war.

In a ravine called Babi Yar in Kiev, 33,771 Jews were massacred by German SS Einsatzgruppen Action Group

World Heavyweight Boxing Title Joe Louis (USA) beat Lou Nova (USA) Rsf 6, Polo Grounds, New York City.

The Germans launched Operation Typhoon, the assault on Moscow when Heinz Guderian's forces attacked along the Bryansk Front