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In the News...

●    Declaration of United Nations signed in Washington (Jan. 1).

●    Nazi leaders attend Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish question," the systematic genocide of Jews known as the Holocaust. (For detailed chronology of the Holocaust, see The Holocaust.)

●    Women's military services established.

●    Enrico Fermi achieves nuclear chain reaction.

●    More than 120,000 Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry living in western U.S. moved to "relocation centers," some for the duration of the war (Executive Order 9066).

●    Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston kills 492 (Nov. 28).

Automotive News

●    Civilian car production halts for World War II