(Jewish work units) in Auschwitz concentration camp stage a revolt, killing 3 SS men before being massacred themselves. The Dumbarton Oaks Conference concludes. October 8 – The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuts in the United States. October 9 – WWII: Fourth Moscow Conference: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin begin a 9-day conference in Moscow, to discuss the future of Europe. October 10 The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp. WWII: 10/10 Air Raid: Allied forces inflict significant losses upon Imperial Japanese Navy ships moored in Naha Harbor, destroying much of the city of Naha, Okinawa as well.. October 11 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed into the Soviet Union. October 12 WWII: The Allies land in Athens. Canadian Arctic explorer Henry Larsen returns to Vancouver, becoming the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner . His westbound voyage is the first completed in a single season, and the first passage through the Prince of Wales Strait. October 13 – WWII: Riga, the capital of Latvia, is taken by the Red Army. The first V-2 rocket attack on Antwerp takes place. October 14 – WWII: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits forced suicide rather than face public disgrace and execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler. October 16 – WWII: American bombing of Salzburg destroys the dome of the city's cathedral and most of a Mozart family home. October 18 – WWII: The Volkssturm Nazi militia is founded, on Adolf Hitler's orders. October 19 – The Guatemalan Revolution begins with the overthrow of Federico Ponce Vaides by a popular leftist movement. October 20 – WWII: Belgrade Offensive ends when Belgrade is liberated by Yugoslav Partisans, together with the Bulgarian Army and the Red Army, and the remnants of Nedić's collaborationist Serbian puppet state, the Government of National Salvation, are abolished. American and Filipino troops (with Filipino guerrillas) begin the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. American forces land on Red Beach in Palo, Leyte, as General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines with Philippine Commonwealth president Sergio Osmeña and Armed Forces of the Philippines Generals Basilio J. Valdes and Carlos P. Romulo. American forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town, and fiercely opposed by the Japanese occupation