1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany

1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

1933 Public burning of Jewish and anti-Nazi books.

1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1933 The Nazis stage massive book burnings in Germany

1936 Manuel Azaña elected President of Spain

1936 Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt

1937 Busmen strike in London

1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam

1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms

1940 Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks

1940 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege

1940 French marines stationed on Aruba

1940 French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands

1940 Massive German invasion of Holland, Belgium and France begins.

1940 Nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM

1941 Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

1941 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz

1941 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

1944 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan

1944 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal

1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese

1945 Russian troops occupy Prague

1946 Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy

1948 The first attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel

1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague

1950 The first Netherlands-US telex sent

1954 Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris France

1956 French Government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria

1959 Soviet forces arrive in Afghánistán

1960 John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia

1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes first circumnavigation of globe under water

1961 "Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London

1963 Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison

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