<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II" id="mwqQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bombing of Hamburg in World War II">Operation Gomorrah</a> begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" id="mwqg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="November">November</a>, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.