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- Sep 25 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
- Sep 25 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
Treaty of Interest
Sep 28 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR
Event of Interest
Oct 1 Winston Churchill calls Russia a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
Event of Interest
Oct 6 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
- Oct 6 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
- Oct 6 Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
- Oct 8 Germany annexes Western Poland
Event of Interest
Oct 11 Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb
Event of Interest
Oct 19 Hermann Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas
- Oct 24 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Oct 25 William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" premieres in NYC
- Oct 26 Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
- Oct 28 Anti-German demonstrations and strikes in Czechoslovakia
- Oct 28 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
- Oct 29 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
- Oct 30 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
- Oct 30 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Adolf Hitler deports Jews
- Nov 1 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
- Nov 1 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
- Nov 1 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
- Nov 3 Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC
- Nov 4 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
- Nov 4 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
- Nov 6 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
- Nov 6 World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported
- Nov 8 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
- Nov 8 H Lindsay & R Crouse's play "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
- Nov 9 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to American Ernest Lawrence for his invention of the cyclotron
- Nov 9 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 British agents
- Nov 12 Jews in Lodz, Poland, ordered to wear a yellow star of David
- Nov 14 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
- Nov 15 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
- Nov 15 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
- Nov 15 The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board
- Nov 16 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
- Nov 17 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
- Nov 17 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection created
- Nov 18 Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
- Nov 18 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus
- Nov 19 Comic superheroes Flash (as Jay Garrick) and Hawkman (Carter Hall) first appear in "Flash Comics No. 1" published by DC
Historic Siege
Nov 22 Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant
Event of Interest
Nov 23 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jewish Poles above the age of 11 years to wear a blue Star of David
- Nov 26 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
Theater Premiere
Nov 27 Maxwell Anderson's play "Key Largo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 28 Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat
- Nov 28 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
- Nov 29 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
Appointment of Interest
Nov 30 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Finnish armed services as Soviet forces invade
- Nov 30 Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7" premieres in NYC
- Nov 30 USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
- Dec 2 British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
- Dec 2 NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
- Dec 9 Russian air raid on Helsinki
- Dec 10 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
- Dec 12 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
- Dec 13 Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee
- Dec 14 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
- Dec 15 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn in Seaford, Delaware
- Dec 17 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
- Dec 18 Finnish army recaptures Agläjärvi (Karelia)
- Dec 19 Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
- Dec 20 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
Appointment of Interest
Dec 21 Adolf Hitler names Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B", responsible for evictions and Jewish immigration
- Dec 22 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
- Dec 22 Freight train and passenger train head-on collision kills 101 at Markdorf, Germany
- Dec 22 Genthin, Germany rail disaster - 186 die in train wreck as an express has a rear-end collision with a train stopped at the station
- Dec 23 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
- Dec 23 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
- Dec 24 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- Dec 25 Grimmett & Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
- Dec 25 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th red-nosed reindeer
- Dec 26 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
- Dec 26 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
- Dec 27 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
- Dec 27 Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 earthquake in Erzincam, Turkey
- Dec 29 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype
- Dec 30 O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
- Dec 31 Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99