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| == Events == | | == Events == |
| * January 4 - [[Hermann Göring]] assumes control of most war industries in Germany. | | * January 4 – WWII: Luftwaffe Colonel [[Hermann Göring]] assumes control of most war industries in Germany. |
| * March 13 - End of the Winter War.
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| * March 13 - Former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O'Dwyer is assassinated in Caxton Hall, Westminster, England by the Indian revolutionary [[Udham Singh]].
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| * March 30 - [[Wang Jingwei]] declares the [[Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China]] to be the legitimate Chinese state, and pledges its allegiance to the [[Imperial Japan|Empire of Japan]].
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| * April to May - The [[Katyn Massacre]] is perpetrated by the [[NKVD]].
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| * April 9 - The [[Nazi Party]] launches Operation Weserübung, invading Denmark and Norway. [[Vidkun Quisling]] proclaims a new collaborationist regime in Norway.
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| * May 20 - [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[concentration camp]] is opened in occupied Poland, near the town of Oświęcim.
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| * May 23 - The [[British Union of Fascists]] is dissolved.
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| * June 14 - [[Francisco Franco]] orders an occupation of the Tangier International Zone.
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| * July 10 - The French Constitutional Law of 1940 is passed, establishing [[Vichy France]] as a client state of Nazi Germany. [[Philippe Pétain]] is named Chief of State and is given dictatorial powers.
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| * July 22 - [[Fumimaro Konoe]] is named Prime Minister of Japan for the second time.
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| * August - [[Lehi]] is founded by [[Avraham Stern]] after breaking away from the [[Irgun]].
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| * August 21 - [[Leon Trotsky]] is assassinated in Mexico City by NKVD agent [[Ramón Mercader]], acting on orders from [[Joseph Stalin]].
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| * September 7 - Beginning of [[the Blitz]].
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| * September 9 - African-American man Austin Callaway is [[lynching|lynched]] by a gang of six [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]]s in LaGrange, Georgia.
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| * September 14 - [[Ion Antonescu]] and the [[Iron Guard]] declare the formation of the [[National Legionary State]] to govern Romania, and allign themselves with the [[Axis Powers]].
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| * September 22 - Imperial Japan begins an invasion of French Indochina.
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| * September 30 - A gang of [[Hitler Youth]] members [[Arson|burn down]] the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France.
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| * October 10 - [[Fulgencio Batista]] is elected President of Cuba.
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| * October 12 - The [[Taisei Yokusankai]] is founded.
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| * October 23 - [[Adolf Hitler]] meets with Francisco Franco to discuss a possible alliance with Spain.
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| * October 28 - [[Benito Mussolini]] launches an invasion of Greece.
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| * Unknown - [[A.O. Neville]] steps down as Chief Protector of the Aborigines.
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| ==Births== | | ==Births== |
| === Villain births === | | === Villain births === |
| * January 1 - [[Clifford Olson]] | | *[[Kim Jong-il]] |
| * January 12 - [[Bob Hewitt]]
| | ==Villain Deaths== |
| * February 2 - [[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]]
| | *[[Nikolai Yezhov]] |
| * February 16 - [[Kim Jong-il]]
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| * June 7 - [[Samuel Little]]
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| * June 16 - [[Neil Goldschmidt]]
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| * July 6 - [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
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| * July 15 - [[Ronald Gene Simmons Sr.]]
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| * August 24 - [[Gordon Baum]]
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| * August 26 - [[Michel Micombero]]
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| * September 10 - [[Robert Anthony Buell]]
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| * September 23 - [[Michel Temer]]
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| * September 27 - [[Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris|Lawrence Bittaker]]
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| * October 27 - [[John Gotti]]
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| * November 23 - [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.]]
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| * Unknown - [[Ali Hassan Salameh]]
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| === Victim births ===
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| * May 29 - Leonardo Henrichsen
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| * July 16 - Daniel L. Simmons
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| * September 6 - Hugo Spadafora
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| * October 8 - John Lennon
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| == Deaths == | |
| === Villain deaths ===
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| * February 4 - [[Nikolai Yezhov]] & [[Mikhail Frinovsky]] | |
| * August 3 - [[Vladimir Jabotinsky]]
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| * August 21 - [[Leon Trotsky]]
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| * September 23 - [[Robert Hichens]]
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| * November 17 - [[Eric Gill]]
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| === Victim deaths ===
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| * March 30 - Michael O'Dwyer
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| * July 6 - Jack Avery
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| * September 9 - Austin Callaway
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