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 1939 - 1945 (6 years)
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| 1 | 1936 |
- 11 Dec 1936—6 Feb 1952: George VI. Ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.HistoricUK
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| 2 | 1939 |
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| 3 | 1940 |
- 27 Feb 1940: Carbon-14 is discovered by scientists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben working at the University of California at Berkeley making it now possible to date once living material.W I R E D BerkLab
- 15 May 1940: The first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.RestMag LoC
- 26 May 1940—4 Jun 1940: British forces begin evacuation of France through Dunkirk.EB TheTelegraph
- 10 Jul 1940: The Battle of Britain begins.FWR
- 12 Sep 1940: The Lascaux Cave paintings are discovered.VVD YouTube
- 27 Sep 1940: Germany, Italy and Japan sign a treaty of mutual assistance - the Tripartite Pact.Avalon WHP
- 26 Oct 1940: The P-51 Mustang takes its maiden flight with test pilot Vance Breese.MM DW
- 7 Nov 1940: "Galloping Gertie", the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapses due to high winds.WSDOT KIRO7
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| 4 | 1941 |
- 12 Feb 1941: The first human trials of penicillin begin.Forbes NIH
- 12 May 1941: The first fully functional, programmable computer is unveiled.W I R E D CHM
- 9 Jul 1941: The Enigma key is broken.MSN History.com
- 30 Oct 1941: FDR approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid for the USSR.USState JVL
- 31 Oct 1941: Mt. Rushmore is completed.NPS
- 1 Dec 1941: The Civil Air Patrol is established.GovInfo CAP
- 7 Dec 1941: The forces of the Japanese Empire attack the U. S. Fleet while it lies at anchor at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.USNavy NPS
- 8 Dec 1941: The U. S. declares war on Japan.Avalon USNA
- 12 Dec 1941: Adolf Hitler personally orders the mass extermination of European Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery.AH.dk SIMag
- 26 Dec 1941: Thanksgiving is established as the 4th Thursday in November.USNA LoC
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| 5 | 1942 |
- 14 Jan 1942: FDR orders that "enemy aliens" must register with the government.History.com UCSB
- 19 Feb 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 resulting in the forcible internment of people of Japanese ancestry. USNA OurDocs
- 18 Apr 1942: Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle leads an air raid against Tokyo and other Japanese cities in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.USNavy SIMag
- 13 Aug 1942: The Manhattan Project begins.AHF NWWIIM
- 9 Sep 1942: A submarine-based Japanese seaplane fire bombs the Oregon forest.SitOS USDA
- 21 Sep 1942: The B-29 Superfortress takes its maiden flight.AFHF MoF
- 28 Nov 1942: A fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts kills 492 people.CB BFHS
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| 6 | 1943 |
- 20 Feb 1943—1952: The Parícutin volcano begins to erupt in Parícutin, Mexico, marking the first time scientists are able to observe the complete life cycle of a volcano. SDSU SIArchives
- 16 Apr 1943: Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the psychedelic properties of LSD.W I R E D DW
- 19 Apr 1943—16 May 1943: Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin uprising against the Nazis.USHMM JVL
- 10 Jun 1943: Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen.W I R E D FPN
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| 7 | 1944 |
- 23 Apr 1944—4 May 1944: Sikorsky's R4 helicopter becomes the first used in a combat role.A&SMag VTOL
- 6 Jun 1944—7 Jun 1944: D-Day - allied forces begin the invasion of continental Europe.USArmy IWM
- 6 Jul 1944: A fire in the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus tent takes 168 lives in Hartford, Connecticut.HCF CTHist
- 20 Jul 1944: Hitler survives an assassination attempt.UoC JVL
- 9 Aug 1944: The first poster of Smokey the Bear is created.StB TIME
- 21 Oct 1944: The first individual kamikaze attack occurs when a Japanese plane attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island.RDunn NHSA
- 25 Oct 1944: Kamikaze are used en masse for the first time against Allied forces in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.NNAM AFMag
- 12 Nov 1944: Avro Lancasters of the British Royal Air Force sink the German battleship Tirpitz off Håkøya Island near Tromsø, Norway.KBismarck BCM
- 16 Dec 1944—31 Jan 1945: The Battle of the Bulge, a surprise offensive by the German Army pushes Allied forces back through Belgium and Luxembourg.USArmy PBS
- 27 Dec 1944: The federal government takes control of Montgomery Ward.UCSB AHC
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| 8 | 1945 |
- 25 Jan 1945: Fluoridation is introduced to drinking water.W I R E D ADA
- 12 Apr 1945: Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president of the United States of America upon the death of FDR, 1945 - 1953.Whitehouse LoC
- 1 May 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide.JVL tPCfM
- 5 May 1945: A Japanese balloon bomb kills 6.W I R E D OE
- 7 May 1945: Germany unconditionally surrenders, effectively ending World War II in Western Europe. Soviet surrender terms were signed the next day.DoD USHMM
- 8 May 1945: V-E Day is celebrated, Germany is defeated.DoD NWWIIM
- 16 Jul 1945: "Trinity", the first atomic bomb, explodes in the early morning hours near Alamogordo.B B C DoE
- 28 Jul 1945: A B-25 Mitchell bomber, flying from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City, crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 people. NYCR&I npr
- 30 Jul 1945: The USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine, killing 883 sailors.USSIndianapolis USNavy
- 6 Aug 1945: The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.B B C CTBTO
- 9 Aug 1945: The atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.OSTI USNA
- 2 Sep 1945: World War II ends, Japan surrenders to the United States aboard the USS Missouri.CNN WAPO
- 26 Sep 1945: The first American soldier is killed in Vietnam.History.com ANC
- 24 Oct 1945: The United Nations is established.UN USState
- 20 Nov 1945—1 Oct 1946: Nazi officials are put on trial in Nuremburg, Germany.USHMM LoC
- 5 Dec 1945: U. S. Navy Flight 19, consisting of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle off the coast of Florida, never to be seen again.Navy NASFM
- 6 Dec 1945: The microwave oven is invented by Percy Spencer of the Raytheon Corporation.NASA Web+
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