January 16 - General Dwight Eisenhower assumes the post of Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.
January 18 - E. B. Kan of Chicago, Illinois becomes the first Chinese person to be granted U.S. citizenship .
March 6 - U.S. Air Force begins daylight bombing attacks on Berlin.
March 18 - Approximately 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers in their panic to buy 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago, Illinois department store.
March 28 - Singing commercials are banned by radio station WQXR in New York City.
April 3 - The Supreme Court rules that a person cannot be denied the right to vote because of race.
April 16 - The labor shortage is so severe in Seattle, Washington that a sign in a restaurant window reads: "Woman wanted to wash dishes. Will marry if necessary."
May 9 - The first eye bank is opened in New York City.
June 6 - Allied troops land in Normandy on D-Day in World War II.
June 18 - Cherbourg, France becomes the first French port to be captured by the Americans in World War II.
August 25 - Allied troops liberate Paris.
September 12 - The U.S. Army enters Germany for the first time.
October 19 - U.S. forces land in the Philippines.
November 7 - Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President.
December 15 - Congress passes an act to establish the new military rank of General of the Army.
December 16 - The Battle of the Bulge is the last German offensive of World War II, and they are soundly defeated by American troops.
December 23 - The Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion announces that horse racing will be banned. Gambling on the sport will resume on May 9, 1945, the day after Allied Victory in Europe.
