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Centuries:
19th
century - 20th century
- 21st
century
Decades:
1890s
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
Years: 1936
- 1937
- 1938
- 1939
- 1940
- 1941 - 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946
Events
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January 10 - Lend-Lease
is introduced into the United
States Congress.
-
January 19 - British
troops attack Italian-held
Eritrea.
-
January 21 - World
War II: Australian
and British
forces attack Tobruk,
Libya.
-
January 22 - World War II: The United
Kingdom captures Tobruk
from Nazi
forces.
-
January 23 - Charles
Lindbergh testifies before the United
States Congress and recommends that the United
States negotiate a neutrality
pact with Adolf
Hitler.
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February 3 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre
Laval to office in occupied Vichy,
France.
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February 4 - World War II: The United
Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American
troops.
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February 11 - World War II: Lieutenant-General Erwin
Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
-
March 1 - World War II: Bulgaria
signs the Tripartite
Pact thus joining the Axis
powers.
-
March 1 - W47NV
begins operations in Nashville,
Tennessee becoming the first FM
radio station.
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March 11 - World
War II: PresidentFranklin
Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease
Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the
Allies
on loan.
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March 17 - In Washington,
DC, the National
Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
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March 22 - Washington's
Grand
Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
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March 25 - Yugoslavia
joins the Axis
powers
-
March 27 - Attack
on Pearl Harbor: Japanese
spy Takeo
Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu,
Hawaii and begins to study the United
States fleet at Pearl
Harbor.
-
March 29 - World War II: Battle
of Cape Matapan - Off the Peloponnesus
coast in the Mediterranean,
British
naval forces defeat those of Italy
sinking five warships. Battle started on March 27.
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April 6 - World War II: Germany
invades Yugoslavia
and Greece.
-
April - Russia
and Japan
sign a neutrality
pact.
-
June 22 - World
War II: Germany
attacks the Soviet
Union in Operation
Barbarossa, Finland
sees an opportunity and launches the Continuation
War.
-
November 14 - World War II: HMS
Ark
Royal is hit by German U-boatU-81
and sinks.
-
December 7, December 6 (in Japan
standard time) - Japanese
navy abruptly attacks the United
States fleet at Pearl
Harbor, thus drawing the United
States into World
War II.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
-
January 3 - Van
Dyke Parks, musician, composer
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January 4 - Henri
Bergson, writer
-
January 5 - Miyazaki
Hayao, Japanese film maker
-
January 5 - Grady
Thomas, singer (P-Funk)
-
January 8 - Graham
Chapman, comedian
-
January 14 - Faye
Dunaway, actress
-
January 15 - Captain
Beefheart, singer
-
January 18 - David
Ruffin, singer (+ 1991)
-
January 21 - Richie
Havens, musician
-
January 21 - Placido
Domingo, opera singer
-
January 26 - Henry
Jaglom, director
-
January 26 - Scott
Glenn, actor
-
January 30 - Dick
Cheney, politician
-
January 31 - Richard
Gephardt, American
politician
-
February 8 - Nick
Nolte, actor
-
February 10 - Michael
Apted, director
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February 11 - Glenn
Randall Jr, stuntman
-
February 11 - Jeremy
Mackenzie, general
-
February 13 - Sigmar
Polke, painter
-
February 17 - Julia
McKenzie, actress
-
February 17 - Gene
Pitney, singer
-
February 20 - Buffy
Sainte-Marie, singer
-
February 27 - Paddy
Ashdown, British politician
-
March 3 - Jutta
Hoffmann, actress
-
March 4 - Adrian
Lyne, director
-
March 6 - Willie
Stargell, Baseball
Hall of Famer
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March 14 - Wolfgang
Petersen, director, Das
Boot
-
March 15 - Mike
Love, musician ("The
Beach Boys")
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March 16 - Bernardo
Bertolucci, film director
-
March 18 - Wilson
Pickett, singer
-
April 6 - Hans
W. Geissendörfer, German
film director
-
May 31 - Johnny
Paycheck (singer)
-
June 5 - Martha
Argerich, Argentinianpianist
-
June 27 - Krzysztof
Kieslowski, film director
-
October 4 - Anne
Rice, horror/fantasy writer
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Richard
Dawkins, British scientist
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Bob
Dylan, US poet and musician
Deaths
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January 5 - Amy
Johnson, aviator
-
January 10 - Joe
Penner, comedian, actor
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January 13 - James
Joyce, writer
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February 11 - Rudolf
Hilferding, German economist, Minister of Finance
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February 28 - King Alfonso
XIII of Spain
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March 6 - Gutzon
Borglum, sculptor
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March 8 - Sherwood
Anderson, author
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March 15 - Alexej
von Jawlensky, Russianimpressionist
painter
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March 28 - Virginia
Woolf,
writer
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July 10 - Jelly
Roll Morton - jazz musician & composer
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August 31 - Marina
Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide)
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August 7 - Rabindranath
Tagore, author
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Arthur
Evans, archaeologist
Nobel
Prizes
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