Majdanek concentration camp, Lublin is opened

In the Vilna Ghetto, German Aktions in four separate incidents kidnapped 3,900 Jews, shot and killed at the Ponary massacre death site, continued with an additional 2,000 Jews kidnapped and killed there, in the next two days.

Baseball World Series Game 1: Brooklyn Dodgers 2-3 New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, New York City

Baseball World Series Game 2: Brooklyn Dodgers 3-2 New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, New York City. One game all

Mahatma Gandhi urges his followers to begin a passive resistance against British rule in India

Wartime Football International: England 2-0 Scotland, Wembley Stadium, London

Baseball World Series Game 3: New York Yankees 2-1 Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, New York City. New York Yankees 2-1

German forces capture Saaremaa island in Estonia from the Soviets

German Featherweight Boxing Title Ernst Weiss (Germany) beat Karl Beck (Germany) Pts 12, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin.

German Light-Heavyweight Boxing Title Richard Vogt (Germany) beat Heinz Seidler (Germany) Rsf 9, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin.

Finland 0-6 Germany, Töölön Pallokenttä Stadium, Helsinki

Sweden 4-2 Germany, Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm

Baseball World Series Game 4: New York Yankees 7-4 Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, New York City. New York Yankees 3-1

Baseball World Series Game 5: New York Yankees 3-1 Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, New York City. New York Yankees win World Series 4-1

German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.

German forces encircle about 660,000 Red Army troops near Vyasma, east of Smolensk

German forces capture Hiiumaa island, the last major Soviet outpost in Estonia

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Nuremberg, 150+ aircraft & Bremen 100+ aircraft

Bloody Sunday Massacre: At Stanisławów Ghetto, 8,000–12,000 Jews were rounded up and shot by SIPO (Ukrainian police) together with German uniformed SS men.

Romania 3-2 Slovakia, Stadionul Anef, Bucharest

Soviet Union government begins to move eastward to Samara, a city on the Volga, but Joseph Stalin remains in Moscow. The citizens of Moscow frantically build tank traps and other fortifications for the coming siege

General Hideki Tōjō becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.

Soviet troop reinforcements arrive in Moscow from Siberia after Stalin is assured by Soviet spy Richard Sorge, that the Japanese will not attack the Soviet Union from the East.

Moscow is declared under a "state of siege" and is placed under martial law

German-occupied Luxembourg is declared "Judenrein" ("Cleansed of Jews").

Denmark 2-1 Sweden, Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

The German commander in Nantes, Lt. Col. Karl Hotz, is killed by Resistance; 50 hostages are shot in reprisal. The incident will become a model for future occupation policies

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Bremen 150+ aircraft

New Zealand troops land in Egypt and take over Fort Capuzzo.

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Bremen 140+ aircraft

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Mannheim 120+ aircraft

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Kiel 110+ aircraft

German forces take Kharkov

Wartime Football International: England 2-1 Wales, St Andrew's, Birmingham

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Hamburg 110+ aircraft

German Featherweight Boxing Title Ernst Weiss (Germany) beat Kurt Bernhardt (Germany) Pts 12, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin.

German Heavyweight Boxing Title Heinz Lazek (Germany) beat Walter Neusel (Germany) Pts 12, Sportpalast Schoenberg, Berlin.

German forces reach Sevastopol

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union

Bomber Offensive: Large night British air raids, on Hamburg 120+ aircraft