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1. January: Philipp Etter becomes Federal President of Switzerland
1. January: The further development of the realm motorway is stopped. Almost 4,000 km were finished
1. January: In Sweden textiles are immediately rationed: Introduction of the dress map
1. January: Venezuela breaks itsdiplomatic relations with Italy, Japan and the German Reich starting from
1. January: Signing of the establishment explanation of the United Nations by 26 states in Washington, D.C.
2. January: The 39. Soviet army breaks through the east front of the 9. German army
2. January: The German and Italian troops in Bardijja, Libya, capitulate
2. January: The British crowning colony Singapore of the Japanese Air Force bombards
2. January: Japanese troops occupy Manila, the capital of the Philippines
20. January: When sea-conference in Berlin
20. January: Japan marches in Burma
29. January: Ecuador loses nearly half of its country at Peru. (Minutes of Rio de Janeiro)
28. March - 29. March: Luebeck as the first German large city bombards
26. April: In the Krolloper takes place the last realm tag meeting in the third realm , Adolf Hitler becomes now highest court gentleman.
1. May: Joseph Frings becomes archbishop of Cologne
10. June:Destruction of the Czech village Lidice and his adult inhabitant by the Nazi terror
15. June: Of Japan of 4 largest aircraft carriers proximity of the Midway islands by US-American warships destroys
17. August: first air raid of the USAAF in Europe in 2. World war (a goala marshalling yard is with Le Havre)
19. August: Command enterprise of British and Canadian troops with the northFrench port Dieppe
31. August: General strike in Luxembourg against German crew power
12. September: The German submarine U 156 sinks inAtlantic the British troop transporter Laconia with 1.800 Italian prisoners of war on board. The associated events were cause for the so-called Laconia instruction by admiral Dönitz.
3. October 15,58 o'clock: first successful kind of trying of the A4 - /V2-Rakete in Peenemuende with a ceilingof 84.5 kilometers and a range of 190 kilometers. This successful start three false starts went to 16. March, 13. June and 17. August of the same yearly ahead
19. November - the Second World War: In the battle around Stalingrad beginsthe Gegenoffensive of the Red Army.
December: Battle of Stalingrad, crucial defeat of Germany
2. December: First power production by nuclear fission
union of the German Baptisten - Elim and brother municipalities for the federation of Evangelist-freechurch municipalities
establishment of the group of resistances white rose
battle around Singapore

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10. January: Premiere of the opera Birgitta of Natanael mountain at the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm
15. August the photographer Toni Catany is born in Llulcmajor on Mallorca

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18. February: The destroyer „Truxtun “ (the USA) strands in bad weather during an escort employment in the Plancentia Bay (Canada), breaks apart and sinks. Over 100 dead ones
24. February: The Bulgarian steamer Struma becomes with 764 Jewish refugees on board inthe proximity of the Bosphorus by a Soviet submarine sinks. There is only one survivor. The Struma had been forced before from Turkish authorities to the return to the black sea. One had permitted neither a far journey still another landing of the refugees
22. August: Fall of the destroyer used to the escort safety device „Ingraham “ (the USA) to the west of Halifax in the North Atlantic after the collision with the tanker Chemung. From the 200 men crew of the destroyer 189 men, the tanker dies became heavydamaged.
2. October: Fall of the Flakkreuzers „Curacoa “ before the north coast of Ireland after a collision with the passenger liner driving as troop transporters „Queen Mary “ (both Great Britain). 331 men of the 430 men strong crew of the cruiser dies
26. November: Earthquake of the strength 7.6 in Turkey, approx. 4.000 dead ones
20. December: Earthquakes of the strength 7.3 in Erbaa, Turkey, approximately 3,000 dead ones