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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
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Air raids on Japan 1939-08-15 - 1945-08-15
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Norwegian heavy water sabotage 1940 - 1944
Occupation of the Baltic states 1940 - 1991
North African campaign 1940-06-10 - 1943-05-16
Siege of Malta (World War II) 1940-06-11 - 1942-11-20
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Hundred Regiments Offensive 1940-08-20 - 1940-12-05
Tripartite Pact 1940-09-27 - 1945
Franco-Thai War 1940-10 - 1941-05-09

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 44
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 48
Emperor - Ethiopia
Philippe Pétain age 84
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 58
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 45
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 17
King - Yugoslavia
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Zhang Wentian age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Winston Churchill age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Fumimaro Konoe age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 70
Prime Minister - South Africa
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Seán Lester age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 36
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 39
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 53
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 73
Secretary of War - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Herbert Morrison age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 50
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 40
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47
President - African National Congress
Hastings Lees-Smith age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 61
President - Sinn Féin
Francis Biddle age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Lewis Compton age 47
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Harry S. Truman age 56
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 58
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 82
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Neville Chamberlain age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Lloyd George age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 45
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 62
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 63
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hubert Price age 62
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 63
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Prentice Cooper age 45
Governor of Tennessee - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ed Rivers age 44
Governor of Georgia - United States
Christian Herter age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 17
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 47
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 56
President - Turkey
Puyi age 34
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 60
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 68
King - Norway
Edvard Beneš age 56
President - Czechoslovakia
Gustaf V of Sweden age 82
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 70
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 18
King - Kingdom of Romania
Ananda Mahidol age 15
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 53
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 31
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 62
President - Philippines
Douglas Hyde age 80
President - Ireland
Kyösti Kallio age 67
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 41
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 70
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 30
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 35
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 61
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 51
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 64
King - Cambodia
Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din age 71
King-Imam of Yemen - Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 54
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 39
President - Panama
Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta age 42
Viceroy of Italian East Africa - Italian East Africa
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 53
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 58
President - Liberia
Eleazar López Contreras age 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 52
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 46
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 28
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Alfredo Baldomir age 56
President - Uruguay
Higinio Morínigo age 43
President - Paraguay
Carlos Arroyo age 46
President - Ecuador
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 40
President - Costa Rica
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 85
Emir - Qatar
Khalifa bin Harub age 61
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 29
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Jan Šrámek age 70
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Charles Vyner Brooke age 66
Rajah of Sarawak - Raj of Sarawak
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 59
President - Mongolia
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 54
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Ion Antonescu age 58
Prime Minister - Romania
Risto Ryti age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 43
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Thorvald Stauning age 67
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 61
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Hubert Pierlot age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Hermann Jónasson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 56
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 55
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein