Historical Events
Events 101 - 114 of 114
Liberation of Paris
Aug 26 French General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
- Aug 26 US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
- Aug 27 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg
- Aug 28 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
- Aug 28 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies
- Aug 29 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
- Aug 29 Anti-German rebellion in Slovakia
- Aug 30 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
- Aug 30 Philip Yordan's stage drama "Anna Lucasta", starring Hilda Sims, Canada Lee, and Alice Childress, and featuring the Broadway debut of Ruby Dee, opens at the Mansfield Theatre, NYC; runs for 957 performances
- Aug 30 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
- Aug 31 Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie" Italy
- Aug 31 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
- Aug 31 French troops liberate Bordeaux
- Aug 31 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
