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Events

Treaty of Bardo 1881-05-12 - 1956-03-20
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-12-29 - 1991-12-12
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Lateran Treaty 1929-02-11 - 1985-06-03
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932-03-01 - 1939-09-16
Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact 1932-07-25 - 1939-09-17
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21

People

Adolf Hitler age 48
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 55
President - United States
Hirohito age 36
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 41
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 44
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 59
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 55
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 67
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 35
King - Belgium
Albert Lebrun age 65
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 17
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 42
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 13
King - Yugoslavia
Jorge Ubico age 58
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 36
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Benito Mussolini age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 47
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Fumimaro Konoe age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
J. B. M. Hertzog age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
Milan Stojadinović age 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 58
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Jamil Mardam Bey age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Charles Evans Hughes age 75
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 68
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 44
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
Rudolf Hess age 43
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 65
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 60
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 49
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Homer Stille Cummings age 67
Attorney General - United States
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 43
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Malin Craig age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 53
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 36
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 42
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 54
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 75
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 55
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 57
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Edison age 46
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 33
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 53
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 59
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 55
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 73
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 79
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson age 28
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 59
Governor of New York - United States
Frank Merriam age 71
Governor of California - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James V. Allred age 38
Governor of Texas - United States
George C. Peery age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Gordon Browning age 47
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Charles F. Hurley age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Martin L. Davey age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ed Rivers age 41
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 42
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Ogden L. Mills age 52
New York State Senate - United States
Barber Conable age 14
New York State Senate - United States
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 56
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 47
President - Indian National Congress
Francisco Franco age 44
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XI age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 61
King - Saudi Arabia
Puyi age 31
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 56
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 64
King - Norway
Edvard Beneš age 53
President - Czechoslovakia
Gustaf V of Sweden age 79
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 66
King - Denmark
Manuel Azaña age 57
President - Second Spanish Republic
Zog I of Albania age 41
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 45
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol age 11
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 27
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 58
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 62
President - Lithuania
Kārlis Ulmanis age 59
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 64
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 43
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 41
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 37
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 69
President - Poland
Anastasio Somoza García age 41
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 67
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 68
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 67
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 26
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
Milan Hodža age 59
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Agustín Pedro Justo age 61
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 54
President - El Salvador
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 37
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 61
King - Cambodia
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 49
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 61
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 55
President - Liberia
Óscar R. Benavides age 61
President - Peru
Giuseppe Motta age 65
President - Switzerland
Eleazar López Contreras age 54
President - Venezuela
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 51
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 52
Emir - Kuwait
Arthur Greiser age 40
President of the Senate - Free City of Danzig
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 25
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Rafael Franco age 40
President - Paraguay
David Toro age 39
President - Bolivia
Émile Eddé age 54
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 82
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 57
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 26
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
León Cortés Castro age 54
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 63
President - Haiti
Federico Páez age 61
President - Ecuador
Giuliano Gozi age 42
Captain Regent - San Marino
Hamad I of Bahrain age 65
Hakim - Bahrain
Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 53
President - Mongolia
Alfredo Navarro age 69
President - Uruguay
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 51
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
António de Oliveira Salazar age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
İsmet İnönü age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Kurt Schuschnigg age 39
Chancellor - Austria
Ioannis Metaxas age 66
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 62
Prime Minister - Canada
Per Albin Hansson age 51
Prime Minister - Sweden
Joseph Lyons age 57
Prime Minister - Australia
Juan Negrín age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Aimo Cajander age 58
Prime Minister - Finland
Thorvald Stauning age 63
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Joseph Bech age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 50
Prime Minister - Romania
Paul van Zeeland age 43
Prime Minister - Belgium
Kálmán Darányi age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Hermann Jónasson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Hendrikus Colijn age 68
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena age 50
Prime Minister - Thailand
Michael Joseph Savage age 65
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Georgi Kʹoseivanov age 53
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 52
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Kostaq Kota age 48
Prime Minister - Albania
Josef Hoop age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Hikmat Sulayman age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 49
Prime Minister - Tonga