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2. January: The Postsparkassendienst is inserted introduced to entire German
realm the first Skybeamer for the air traffic control of the transmission mast of the Germany transmitter standing under high voltage potential into heart mountain at the Elster

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politics

1. January: Small firms in German Reich are immediately to tidy record keeping obligates
1. January: Philipp Etter becomes new Federal President of Switzerland
1. January: The change of name regulation for Jews in the third realm comes into force
1. January: The obligation year introduced in the previous yearto unemployed person single female young people under 25 years applies immediately to all
1. January: To 30. April 1938 decided protection of children and young people law and the work time regulation come into force
15. March: Contract over the establishment of the protectorate Böhmen andMähren signs
22. March: Lithuania steps the Memelland at Germany starting from
28. March: Troops of the general Franco conquer Madrid
31. March: Friendship and neighbourhood contract between Italy and San Marino
3. April: Leader instruction of Hitler: War of aggressionagainst Poland (case white)
7. April: Fascist Italy annektiert Albania
11. May: The Japanese-Russian border conflict is intensified again
14. June: The national name of Siam becomes on Veranlassung of the dictator a general Pibul Songkhram in Thailand (Prathet Thai= “country of the free ones”) changed
23. August: Hitler Stalin pact (nonaggression treaty between Germany and the USSR)
31. August: Disguised SS - A fictitious assault on the transmitter Gleiwitz commit and supply belonging one thereby the justification for the war attack on Polandon the next morning
1. September: Invasion of German troops in Poland and thus release of the assistance (English-French declaration of guarantee) and co-operation pacts (Hitler Stalin pact; Beginning 2. World war in Europe
2. September: Italien erklärt sich als >> not war-leading<<.
3. September: Declaration of war of France and Great Britain to the largeGerman realm)
3. September: The British Passagierdampfer „Athenia “of a German submarine without preliminary warning sinks
4. September: To Germany for women between 18 and 25 years the bi-annual realm work service obligation is introduced
7. Septembers French troops take some border villages in the Rheinpfalz . It concerns however only limited activities of the Frenchmen, who are answered limited by German side only.
17. September: Invasion of the USSR in east Poland
28. September: Germany/Russia. GermanSoviet bordering and friendship treaty
31. October: Resettlement contract between the German Reich and Latvia
8. November: Unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler in the citizen brewing cellar by George Elser
30. November: Outbreak of the three-month winter war: The attackfails to the Red Army on Finland first under high losses. The man home line can be broken through only at the beginning of of 1940; Finland can stop however finally the aggression and protect its independence.
4. December: Hitler in realm mountain before a meeting that talksHitler Youth over the relationship of education and youth and their figuration by the state.
14. December: The Soviet Union is excluded due to the over case on Finland from the Völkerbund. Further measures are omitted: The USA explain „a moral embargo “.
17. December: Before Montevideo the damaged German warship admiral count Spee is given up and sunk by the own crew.

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science/technology

29. January: Karl Bode reached 3,427 m height with his helicopter.: World record
26. April: With oneAirplane, the Messerschmitt ME 209, sets up Fritz spiral a new speed - world record (755.138 km/h).
27. August: Erich being seat steers a Heinkel He 178 , the first jet as a pilot, propelled by a Heinkel S3B jet engine
24. October: Most successful US rigid airship, the Zeppelin LZ 126/ZR-3 built in Germany „USS Los Angeles “ is deactivated to culture 4

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]. February: Premiere of the Operette the Hungarian wedding of Nico DOS valley in Stuttgart
14. February: Premiere of the opera Marionetter of Hilding rose mountain at the royal opera in Stockholm
7. October: Premiere of the opera the Kathrin by Erich Wolfgang grain gold at the royal opera in Stockholm
31. December: The Viennese to Philharmonics give -under the direction of Clemens Krauss - their first New Year concert.

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the USA in the New Yorker Café Society appears first

Batman for the first time -

disasters

25. January: Earthquake thatStrength 8.3 in Chillán, Chile, approximately 28,000 dead ones
13. September: The mine cruiser „La route D'Auvergne “ (France) sinks after the explosion on board storing naval mines in Casablanca (Morocco). 215 men of the 396 menstrong crew die
13. December: The destroyer „Duchess “ sinks to the west of Scotland after a collision with the battle ship „Barham “. 129 dead ones
22. December: On the station in Genthin two express trains collide. 196 humans diethis disaster
26. December: Earthquake of the strength 7,8 in Erzincan, Turkey approx. 30.000 dead ones

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of entries of athlete IC world records see under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik.

9. February: The running driver Rudolf Caracciola places between Dessau and bitter field with 398.234 kilometers per hour a speed record for 3000-Kubikzentimeter-Wagen on

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