The Eastern Front: The Warsaw Uprising, staged by the Polish Home Army, begins: the Polish people rise, expecting aid from the approaching Soviet Union armies, but it never comes.
The Eastern Front: The Red Army isolated the Baltic States from East Prussia by taking Kaunas.
The Pacific Campaign: The Americans complete the capture of the island of Tinian.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 700+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 910+ railway bridge in area S and SW of Paris & targets in Paris environs
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid of 250+ sent against 8 V-weapon sites in NW France.

Scientists in the United Kingdom said that DDT had been found to act as an anti-malarial insecticide.

Torpedoed by GNAT acoustic homing torpedo from German submarine U-804, 470 miles NNW of the Azores, in the North Atlantic. The ship broke in 2, bow sinking first, 33 dead, 50 injured 47.11N 33.29W 02/08/1944

Turkey broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.

The Eastern Front: The primary stage of the Lublin–Brest Offensive concluded with Soviet objectives met.
V-Weapons Campaign: Germans launched 316 V-1 flying bombs at London, the highest single-day total yet. Over 100 reached the capital, hitting Tower Bridge and damaging the armament factories on the outskirts.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 390+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 390+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 290+ targets including oil dumps and depots, supply depots, railway bridges, junctions, canal lock & rail and highway traffic NE of Paris
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 390+ attack 15 V-weapon sites, 5 bridges, and rail junctions and bridges in France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ attack bridges at Mezieres-sur-Seine, Mainvillers, Cinq Mars-la Pile, Nantes, and Lisle, and ammo dumps at Caudebec-les-Elbeuf and Le Lude.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 330+ attack Genoa harbour

German authorities in Auschwitz-Birkenau murdered the last residents (just under 3,000) of the so-called Gypsy family camp.

The Soviet Union and Lebanon established diplomatic relations with each other.

The Burma Campaign: American & Chinese forces take Myitkyina, in northern Burma.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 1,110+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ oil refineries in France & Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 180+ attack on rail bridges, overpasses, and junctions at Mantes-la-Jolie, Chartres, La Chenaie and Merey, fuel dump at Maintenon, and alternate rail targets in N France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 600+ attack on the industry in the Friedrichshafen area, including chemical works, fabric works, 2 aircraft factories, and bomb comm targets in the Brenner Pass area

In Amsterdam, the family of Anne Frank was discovered, seized and deported by the Nazis.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim became the 6th President of Finland after Risto Ryti resigned.

The Italian Campaign: British & South African forces capture Florence. Before leaving the Germans destroyed some historic bridges and historically valuable buildings.
The Western Front: American forces capture Rennes, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 290+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 280+ aircraft attack oil storage depots Bec-d'Ambes & Pauillac in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,250+ attack 4 oil refineries, 4 aircraft factories, the Peenemunde experimental establishment, and torpedo plants in Germany, 2 coastal batteries in the Pas de Calais area, and 2 V-weapon sites.

The Eastern Front: Wola massacre 40-50 thousand civilians murdered by German forces in the Wola district of Warsaw.
The Pacific Campaign: The Cowra breakout: Japanese POWs escape from an Australian prison near Cowra, New South Wales. Two guards are killed and posthumously awarded the George Cross.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 740+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 300+ aircraft attack oil storage depots River Gironde at Blaye, Bordeaux & Pauillac in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,060+ attack on the Magdeburg-Brunswick-Hannover region, bombing oil, aircraft, and engine works.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces begin the Osovets Offensive as part of the final phase of Operation Bagration.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 953+ attack aircraft and engine factories, torpedo plant, 7 oil refineries, and an aircraft factory in Berlin and Hamburg-Kiel areas, and 2 V-weapon sites in Pas de Calais area.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 700+ attack targets in SE France, attack oil storage at Le Pouzin, Le Pontet, and Lyon, railroad bridges at Le Pouzin, Avignon, Tarascon, Rambert, and Givors, at Portes-les-Valences and Miramas, and submarine pens at Toulon.

Operation Valkyrie: The first trials of the bomb conspirators against Hitler begin in a court presided over by notorious Judge Roland Freisler.
The Western Front: Operation Bluecoat ends in Allied victory.
The Western Front: The Battle for Brest begins in Brittany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 1,020+ aircraft attack German forces in Normandy battle area
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 350+ attack 2 synthetic oil refineries at Blechhammer.

Operation Valkyrie: Plotters in the bomb plot against Hitler are hanged and their bodies are hung on meat hooks. Reprisals against their families continue.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Foret de Chantilly in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 200+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Foret de Chantilly in France.

German SS & police units began liquidating the Łódź Ghetto. From this day through August 28 more than 60,000 Jews and an undetermined number of Roma were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In the Ordinance of 9 August 1944, the French Provisional Government restored the Republic and the rule of law in metropolitan France and nullified the laws of the Vichy regime.

The Pacific Campaign: President Roosevelt chooses General Douglas MacArthur's plan to invade the Philippines and turns down Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's plan to invade Taiwan.
The Eastern Front: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive between Sovirt & Finnish forces ends in negotiating a ceasefire.
The Eastern Front: The Battle of Studzianki begins in Poland.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 160+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Foret de Chantilly in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 310+ aircraft attacks V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 180+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Foret de Chantilly in France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 500+ attack aircraft engine plant at Sindelfingen and several targets at Saarbrucken, Luxembourg, and Saint-Vith.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ attack ammo dump in Foret de Blois, shipping at Brest, and other targets, including rail bridges at 10 locations in N and W France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ attack 2 aircraft factories and an oil refinery at Budapest, a rolling stock plant and aircraft assembly plant at Gyor, and an oil refinery at Brod

The Pacific Campaign: Guam is liberated by American troops; all of the Marianas are now in American hands. They will be turned into a major air and naval centre against the Japanese homeland.
The Eastern Front: The Battle of Narva ended in a German defensive victory on the Eastern Front.
The Eastern Front: The Battle of the Tannenberg Line ended in a tactical German victory.
The Eastern Front: The Soviets began the Tartu Offensive.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 210+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Bordeaux & La Pallice, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 100+ aircraft attack on Dijon, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 200+ attack rail bridges and embankments in wide areas around Paris.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 460+ aircraft attack on railway facilities at Douai, Lens & Somain, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 180+ aircraft attack on Givors, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 850+ attack fuel dumps, and aircraft factories, in NE France and the Paris area.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, U.S. Navy lieutenant and eldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (killed over Blythburgh, England when his PB4Y-1 Liberator's explosive detonated prematurely)

The Western Front: A Special Air Service mission codenamed Operation Loyton began in the Vosges department of France. In the opening phase, a small advance party parachuted into the Vosges Mountains to contact the local French Resistance and conduct a reconnaissance of the area.
The Western Front: The Battle of the Falaise Pocket began.
The Western Front: Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil pipeline was laid between England and France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 120+ aircraft attack oil storage depots at Foret de Montrichard, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on Brunswick, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 300+ aircraft attack on Russelsheim, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on Falaise, France

British Lightweight Boxing Title Ronnie James (GB) beat Eric Boon (GB) Ko 10, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture Võru and Valga.
The Eastern Front: The Battle of Ilomantsi ended in Finnish victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,200+ attack railroad bridge, 3 coastal batteries, and several highways along the Seine from Le Havre to Paris
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 800+ bridges, tunnels, moving traffic and other transportation facilities in wide area NE of the Seine.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 570+ attack bomb fuel storage at Les Buissons, points along highways around Lisieux and SE to Rugles with aim of containing enemy in Falaise pocket, railroad targets at Peronne, Doullens, and Corbeil-Essonnes.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 500+ attack gun positions around Genoa, Toulon, and Sete, and strike at bridges at Pont-Saint-Esprit, Avignon, Orange, and Crest.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 180+ attack military installations at Pec

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 810+ aircraft attack on Normandy Battle Area
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on Brest, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,100+ attack 9 aircraft factories, 2 aero engine factories, 1 oil plant, 2 bridges, 2 rail junctions and other secondary targets in SW Germany, E France, and Bordeaux region.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 540+ attack gun positions in Toulon and Genoa areas as Operation Dragoon convoy heads for the French Mediterranean coast.

The Western Front: Operation Dragoon begins, marked by amphibious Allied landings in southern France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 1,000+ aircraft attack on Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields in Netherlands & Belgium
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 850+ attack NW German, Dutch, and Belgian aircraft factories
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid of 1,000+ raiding 9 aircraft factories in the Netherlands and Belgium, along with 29 locomotives and a large number of other ground targets.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 330+ attack Marseille-en-Beauvaisis and Foret de Chantilly ammo and fuel dumps, rail bridges at Auverssise and L’Isle-Adam, Serqueux and coastal defence at Saint-Malo.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 250+ after predawn takeoff pound beaches in the Cannes-Toulon area in immediate advance of Operation Dragoon.

The Eastern Front: The Battle of Studzianki ended in a Soviet-Polish victory.
The Western Front: American forces entered Chartres
The Eastern Front: German forces launched Operation Doppelkopf, a counter-offensive on the Eastern Front.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 460+ aircraft attack on Stettin, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 350+ aircraft attack on Kiel, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 950+ attacked 11 oil refineries, aircraft plants and in central Germany.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Biak ended in Allied victory.
The Western Front: the Battle of the Falaise Pocket, the First Canadian Army captured the ruined town of Falaise itself.
The Western Front: American forces take Saint-Malo when the German-held fortress there surrendered after enduring two weeks of bombing and shelling.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ attack road bridges at Montfort-sur-Risle, Pont-Audemer, Nassandres, Beaumont-le-Roger, Le Bourg, Brionne, and Beaumontel, and rail bridge at La Ferriere-sur-Risle in NW France as well as the Gestapo HQ near Chateauroux

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces reach the East Prussian border.
The Western Front: German forces retreat across the Orne, leaving 18,000 men behind to be captured.
The Western Front: The Allies closed the Falaise Gap, trapping German forces to the north and west.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces entered the Drancy internment camp one day after its abandonment by German forces. 500 survivors were liberated.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on German supply depot at L'Isle-Adam, near Paris, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 280+ aircraft attack on Bremen, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 230+ aircraft attack on synthetic oil plant Sterkrade, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 140+ aircraft attack on railway stations & yards Connantre, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 110+ aircraft attack on synthetic oil plant Ertvelde Rieme, Belgium
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 700+ attack 15 assigned targets including bridges, aircraft factories, fuel dumps, and an aero engine plant, in France and Belgium
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 370+ attack 5 oil refineries around Ploesti.

The Western Front: The French Resistance began an uprising in Paris, partly inspired by the Allied approach to the Seine River.
The Western Front: The battle for Hill 262 began during the final stages of the Normandy Campaign.
The Eastern Front: Operation Bagration ended in a Soviet victory.

The Italian Campaign: The Red Army relaunches its offensive into Romania.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces in Romania began the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive.
The Western Front: Vichy France President Philippe Pétain was arrested by the Germans and taken to Belfort because he refused to leave Vichy.
The Western Front: The Battle of Toulon began.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 460+ attack aircraft factories at Szolnok, and oil refineries at Dubova, Czechowice and Auschwitz

The Dumbarton Oaks Conference began at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C. The international conference was to be where the United Nations was to be formulated and negotiated among international leaders.

The Western Front: The Battle of the Falaise Pocket ended in an Allied victory.

The Western Front: The Battle of Marseille began in southern France.
The Western Front: American forces capture Aix-en-Provence.
The Western Front: The battle for Hill 262 in Normandy ended in Polish victory.
The Western Front: Operation Tractable ended in Allied victory.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capturedIași, Romania
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 110+ attack Nish aircraft factories.

The Battle of the Atlantic: Operation Goodwood , a series of carrier raids against the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in northern Norway.
German Naval Group Command South ordered the evacuation of Constanța. Admiral Karl Dönitz authorized German ships in this theatre to be scuttled.

British Fairey Barracuda Vought F4U Corsair aircraft being armed on board British Aircraft Carrier Formidable

The Burma Campaign: The Japanese are now in total retreat from India.
The Western Front: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler issued the first of several orders to the German commander of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, to destroy the city.
The Western Front: American forces capture Grenoble.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 530+ attack oil refineries at Korneuburg, Odertal, and Blechhammer, and oil storage at Lobau

The Battle of Audierne Bay was fought between German and Allied naval flotillas. The result was an Allied victory as eight German ships were sunk.

King Michael I of Romania led a coup that overthrew the pro-Axis government of Ion Antonescu. Constantin Sănătescu became the new prime minister.

The Eastern Front: Romania breaks with the Axis, surrenders to the Soviet Union, and joins the Allies.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 150+ bomb and strafe rail transportation from Saint-Omer to Reims.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 470+ attacked the industrial area of Vienna, Wiener Neudorf aircraft engine factory, Vosendorf oil refinery, and Markersdorf aircraft factories, and attack targets at Ferrara, missing the river bridge but hitting the synthetic rubber factory

Constantin Sănătescu became the new prime minister of Romania.
Germany enacts full mobilization. Theatres were closed, holidays were cancelled and military leave was halted.

The Western Front: Forces of Free France were the first of the Allies to enter Paris, in the evening.
The Western Front: Canadian forces captured Bernay and crossed the Risle River at Nassandres.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ attack armament factory and 17 oil installations, aircraft assembly plants and aero-engine works in Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 600+ strafe aircraft factories near Brandenburg and Nordhausen and ground targets destroyed include 14 aeroplanes, 7 locomotives, trucks, and boats
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 530+ attacked 8 oil refineries at Kolin and Pardubice, Vinkovci, Szeged, and Ferrara railroad bridge and several targets around Czechoslovakia

At Buchères in France, men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacred 68 civilians (half of them women) aged from 6 months to above seventy years.

Romania declares war on Germany and Hungary
Romania switched sides and declared war on Germany.

The Western Front: Paris is liberated; The Battle for Paris ended at 2:30 p.m. when the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered the French capital. At 4 p.m. Charles de Gaulle arrived in the city and walked amid a cheering crowd to the Hôtel de Ville, where he made a rousing speech. The German military under Lt. Gen. von Choltitz disobeyed Hitler's orders to burn the city and destroy all bridges over the Seine.

The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Driniumor River ended in American forces
The Western Front: The Red Ball Express truck convoy system began operation to supply Allied forces in France.
The Western Front: French & American forces liberate Avignon without opposition.
The Italian Campaign: British forces in Italy began Operation Olive, an assault on the eastern end of the Gothic Line.

Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 160+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 410+ aircraft attack on Russelsheim, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Darmstadt, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 340+ aircraft attack on Brest, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 1,100+ attack 4 aircraft plants, 3 aircraft factories, 2 experimental stations in Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 90+ attack on 5 liquid oxygen plants at La Louviere, Torte & Willebroek Belgium. These liquid-oxygen plants were thought to be producing fuel for the coming V-2 campaign.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 240+ attack various enemy strongholds in and around Brest supporting ground forces’ attempt to capture Brest harbor.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 300+ attack aircraft factories at Brno and Kurim and aircraft factories at Brno and Prostejov

The Western Front: Paris is liberated; Charles de Gaulle headed a liberation parade in Paris, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and ceremonially relighting the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe, then marching along the Champs-Élysées to attend a service at Notre Dame to give thanks for the liberation of the city. Sniper fire rang out during the parade, which de Gaulle ignored.

The Western Front: The Battle of Toulon ended in Allied victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Rüsselsheim massacre: Six American airmen were lynched and killed by townspeople of Rüsselsheim am Main.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 370+ aircraft attack on Kiel, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 170+ aircraft attack on Konigsberg, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 95+ attack synthetic oil plants at Ludwigshafen, Ehrang and Konz-Karthaus, and other targets at Alzey and Meisenheim.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 400+ attack 2 synthetic oil plants, 2 oil refineries, a fuel depot, 2 Aircraft factories in NW Germany.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 470+ attacked viaducts and bridges at Venzone, Avisio, and Latisana, and hit train ferry and terminal at Giurgiu, barracks and troops in Baneasa area and viaduct at Borovnica.

Maillé massacre: 124 residents of the French commune of Maillé, Indre-et-Loire were massacred by the Germans in reprisals for activities by the French Resistance.

The Eastern Front: Operation Doppelkopf ended in a limited German tactical victory.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture Focșani, Romania
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 240+ aircraft attack on Homberg, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 220+ aircraft attack on The Fortress of Mimoyecques the massive V-3 weapon site in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 150+ German coastal areas and the Danish peninsula.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raids 530+ attack 2 oil refineries in Blechhammer, the railroad bridge at Ferrara, and viaducts at Avisio, Venzone, and Borovnica

The Western Front: American forces cross the Marne river at Meaux.
The Eastern Front: The Kaunas Offensive ended in Soviet victory.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 150+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 560+ strike Moosbierbaum oil refinery and adjacent chemical works, oil refinery at Szony, railroad bridges and viaducts at Szolnok, Zambana, Avisio, and Ora, and Miskolc.

Operation Goodwood was called off after failure to deal any significant damage to the Tirpitz.

The Slovak National Uprising begins.

The Eastern Front: The anti-German Slovak National Uprising starts in Slovakia.
V-Weapons Campaign: Adolf Hitler declared that the V-2 weapon campaign should start as soon as possible.
The Eastern Front: The Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive and Šiauliai Offensive all ended in Soviet victories.
The Western Front: The Battle of Marseille ended with the surrender of Germans on the fortified harbour islands.
The Western Front: Allied commanders turned over the administration of Paris to Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee of National Liberation.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 400+ aircraft attack on Stettin, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy night-time British air raid, 190+ aircraft attack on Konigsberg, Germany
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 550+ attack targets in Po Valley and the Hungarian Plain, oil refineries and comm targets in the Silesian Plain, including Bohumin area, steel works and Moravska-Ostrava, oil refineries and industrial area including tank works, Szolnok and Szeged and railway bridges at Szeged, Borovnica, Salzano, and Ferrara.

The Soviet Union, though not at war with Bulgaria, refused to accept the government's declaration of neutrality.
The Western Front: The Allies enter Rouen, in northwestern France.
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces capture of Constanța, Romania
The Eastern Front: Soviet forces enter the important oil centre of Ploiești, Romania. The city had been heavily bombed by the British and Americans in the Oil Campaign and only five refineries producing just 20 percent of normal production were active.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 200+ attack V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais area. 
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 600+ attack U-boat base and shipyards at Kiel, and aircraft plant and other industry in the Bremen area

The Eastern Front: Soviet forces enter Bucharest, the capital of Romania which was already freed from German troops by the Romanian Army.
The Pacific Campaign: The Battle of Sansapor ended in American victory.
The Italian Campaign: American forces cross the Arno River
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 600+ aircraft attack on V-Weapon sites in northern, France.
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time British air raid, 160+ aircraft attack on coastal batteries near St-Malo, France
Allied Bomber Offensive: Heavy day-time American air raid 100+ bomb ammo dump at Foret d’Arques and gun positions at Ile de Cezembre.