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Albert Camus's novel The Stranger is published.
T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding, the fourth part of his Four Quartets, is published.
Dmitry Shostakovich composes his Seventh Symphony, his homage to Leningrad.
1 Jan.
In Washington, D.C., twenty-six Allied nations, including the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China, sign a pact agreeing not to make separate peace with Germany.
2 Jan.
The Japanese take Manila.
14-15 Jan.
The RAF conducts heavy bombing raids on port facilities at Hamburg and Rotterdam, beginning a long series of air attacks on port and factory cities in Germany and occupied Europe.
15-28 Jan.
Foreign ministers of the Western Hemisphere nations, including the United States, meet in Rio de Janeiro. With the exception of Argentina and Chile, they sever diplomatic relations with Axis nations and agree to collective-security arrangements.
17 Jan.
The Japanese invade Burma.
20 Jan.
Leading Nazi officials meet in Wannsee, near Berlin...
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