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Aaron Copland's ballet Rodeo has choreography by Agnes de Mille
US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States
US poet Randall Jarrell publishes his first collection, Blood for a Stranger
Michael Curtiz directs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
James Cagney stars in the screen musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, directed by Michael Curtiz
Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in the first of many films together, Woman of the Year
Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of our Teeth has a mixed reception at its New Haven premiere
US crooner Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Joseph Stilwell is appointed to head the US military mission to Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
US planes, flying from an aircraft carrier, undertake a difficult bombing raid on Tokyo
US physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is appointed director of the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon
US general Dwight Eisenhower is appointed to command Allied landings in north Africa
Canadian troops provide most of the assault force in a disastrous raid on Dieppe
American and British forces, under Dwight Eisenhower, land in Morocco and Algeria
Enrico Fermi and his team in Chicago achieve the first nuclear chain reaction
The loss of merchant shipping to U-boats reaches a peak in the Battle of the Atlantic, with 1.5 million tons sunk in the last quarter of the year
The musical Oklahoma! launches the partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Power is seized in Argentina by a new military junta, the Group of United Officers
11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a collie in Lassie Come Home
Zoot Suit riots, starting in Los Angeles, target young Mexican Americans
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is repealed in the US, but there are to be only 105 Chinese immigrants each year
New Allied successes against the German U-boats provide a turning point in the battle of the Atlantic
The Allied destruction of U-boats climbs to its highest level in the Battle of the Atlantic, with 56 sunk in two months
British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign
Carl ('Tooey') Spaatz is appointed to command the US Strategic Air Forces in Europe
