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1913
Aug 4
| 1913 • In the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état, Ismail Enver comes to power. |
1920
Age: 6y
| 1920 • Polish–Soviet War: Red Army continues offensive into Poland. |
1930
Age: 16y
| 1930 • One-year conscription comes into force in France. |
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Jun
Age: 25y
1939
Jun
Age: 25y
birth of childCharles Lee Smith Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1939 • Opening shots of World War II and Invasion of Poland: At 4:45am Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WW1-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on the fortress Westerplatte, a Polish army installation at the mouth of the port of Danzig, Poland. Simultaneously, shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland. |
1940
Apr 11
Age: 26y
| 1940 • U.S. politics: The Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president. |
1943
Apr 25
Age: 29y
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birth of childReta Kay Smith Ottumwa, Iowa, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1943 • WWII – Allied invasion of Sicily: The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy by the Seventh United States Army and the British Eighth Army including the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. |
2009
May 28
Age: 95y
| 2009 • Albania and Croatia are admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |