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To politics

1. January: Marcel Pilet Golaz becomes for the second time Federal President of Switzerland
1. January: The student Dienstpflicht comes into force in the German Reich
8. February: The Ghetto Łódź (late Litzmannstadt)one the largest Judenghettos of the entire third realm is furnished
12. March: Finland does in the contract of Moscow without Karelien
18. March: The Second World War of Axis powers: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the burner passport in the alpsand agree upon the alliance against France and Great Britain
9. April: German troops occupy Denmark and Norway
12. April: British troops occupy the Färöer 25 belonging to
Denmark. April: The flag of the Färöer is internationally recognized by Great Britain.Since then is the 25. April on the Färöern a holiday
10. May: Beginning of the 'blitzkrieg ', the German armed forces occupies the Netherlands, Belgium and neutral Luxembourg, around the magic emergency line to go around
10. May: ThoseGovernment Chamberlain withdraws, a war coalition cabinet under Churchill takes over the guidance of Great Britain
12. May: Beginning of the 'blitzkrieg 'against France, the German armed forces exceeds the French border
13. May: The British Prime Minister vienna clay/tone Churchill holds itsadmitted „blood, sweat and tears “- speech before the British parliament
14. May: Bombardment of the Netherlands city Rotterdam
15. May: Surrender of the Netherlands government (with exception of the province Zeeland)
10. June: Italy explains France and Great Britainthe war
14. June: German troops occupy Paris
14. June: The concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau opens
17. June: The Soviet Union occupies Estonia and Lettland
18. June: The French general Charles de Gaulle calls from London toResistance up and educates the provisional national committee (government-in-exile)
to 22. June: Compiègne: at the same place in the same Eisenbahnwagon as 1918 the armistice between France and Germany signs
3. July: British airplanes bombard the French fleet in Mers el Kebir
6. August: Estonia. Forced entry to the Soviet Union
13. August: Luftwaffe begins the air battle around England
30. August: Second Viennese arbitral award: Hungary receives regions from Romania
6. September: Carol II., King of Romania resigns. Its son Michael I. becomes the successor
27. September: Three-power pact between German Reich, Italy and Japan. Signing generally speaking hall of the new Reichskanzelei
2. October: The German crew authority in Warsaw arranges thatall about 400,000 Jews in a Ghetto, living in Warsaw , to live must
28. October: Metaxas leans the ultimatum Mussolinis for surrender with the famous “όχι” starting from
12. December: „Eternal ones “ Hungarian - Yugoslav friendship treaty (at the 3. April 1941 ofHungary broken)

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economics

15. May: Sales start for nylon socks
15. May: First McDonald's - restaurant is created in San Bernardino , California,
opens the Spanish airline Iberia (Líneas Aéreas de España)

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Science and technology

27. February: Discovery of the C-14 radio carbon method
27. April: Conclusion of the Abwrackung of LZ 127 „count Zeppelin “'and LZ 130 „count Zeppelin II “: End of the large airship - era
6. May: Breakup of the airship hangarson the airfield „Rhine Main “
13. May: Igor Iwanowitsch Sikorski starts to the first free flight in a helicopter (Sikorsky VS-300) with tail rotor, until today to most used design.
12. September: Discovery of the prähistorischen cave painting in that Cave of Lascaux

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culture

16. April: Premiere of the opera Maryša of Emil František Burian in Brünn (Brno)
18. May: Premiere of the opera Volo the notte of Luigi Dallapiccola at the Teatro comunale in Florenz
around 1940: Nachos are invented.

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disasters

23. April: The destroyer „La Railleuse “ (France) sinks after a boiler explosion in Casablanca (Morocco). 28 dead ones under the 159 men strong crew
30. April: The destroyer „Maille Brézé “ (Frankreich) sinkt nach einer inneren Explosion bei Greenock. 28 dead ones under the 240 men strong crew
17. June: German bombers sink the Passagierdampfer RMS Lancastria with approximately, used for the evacuation of British troops from France, before sp-Nazaire6,000 humans on board. The data concerning the number of victims vary between 2.000 and 4.000 dead ones. This concerns the most involving heavy losses ship fall of British history, however instruction the vienna clay/tone of Churchill one keeps secret
to 16. July: InFog collides the British destroyer „to Imogen “ in the Pentland Firth with another ship and sinks. 18 dead ones
22. October: After the collision with a cargo ship the Canadian destroyers „ Margaree sinks “ in the North Atlantic. 140 dead ones
10. November: Earthquakethe strength 7.3 in Romania, approx. 1.000 dead ones

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

7. April: Final conditions 2:2 in the football international match Germany against Hungary in the olympia stadium Berlin
1. May:No olympic plays because of the war
6.- 8. July: Tennis land match in Berlin between Germany and Italy ends to 1:5
1. September: Final conditions with the football international match in Leipzig between Germany and Finland 13:0