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Originally Posted by Slickcraft
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You could be right, but this is where I got the info.
Historical Events for November 1939
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Events 1 - 39 of 39
1st - 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1st - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1st - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
3rd - Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC
4th - 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
4th - 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
4th - US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
6th - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
6th - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
6th - World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics in Kraków, Poland
8th - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
8th - H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
9th - "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
9th - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
9th - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
11th -
Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
12th - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
14th - Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
15th - Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 15th - FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
15th - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
15th - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
16th - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
16th - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
17th - German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
I cut it off at this point.
