1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)

1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship

1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled

1941 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York

1941 Allied evacuation from Greece completed

1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios

1941 German assault on Tobruk

1941 Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY

1942 Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.

1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"

1942 Townsville put on invasion alert

1943 Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins.

1943 Food rationing begins in US

1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta

1943 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight

1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)

1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails

1945 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government

1945 Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast

1945 Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan

1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII

1945 Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg

1945 Soviet army reach Rostock

1946 Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander

1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"

1947 Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA

1947 Radar for commercial &private planes first demonstrated

1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of the CIA

1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"

1948 North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea

1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade

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