1939 Royal Tour of Canada commences with the arrival of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Wolfe's Cove, Quebec on the Empress of Canada. The 12 car train, (five from CP, five from CN and the two vice-regal cars), in royal blue and aluminum, left Quebec City on May 18. A pilot train, carrying officials and the press, preceeded the royal train by one hour and no other trains were permitted to travel within this period. The travel arrangements were shared by the two railways with CP being responsible for the westward journey to Victoria. CP used 4-6-4 locomotives 2850 and 2851 for the royal and pilot trains respectively, except for the Ottawa to Brighton, Ont, section, which was over CN track. 2850 hauled the royal train without change right through to Vancouver, a total distance of 3224 miles. Royal crowns were affixed to the running boards of both locomotives and these were eventually fitted to the entire class (2820-2864) which, following approval from their majesties, came to be known as Royal Hudsons.

1940 Germany begins the invasion of France

1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler

1943 Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;

1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java

1944 Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

1944 Operation Straightline Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea

1944 The Bureau of Aeronautics authorized CGAS Floyd Bennett Field to collaborate with the Sperry Gyroscope Company in making an automatic pilot installation in a HNS-1 helicopter.

1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu

1946 KVP Labor/Communists win first post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike

1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi

1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel

1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland

1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision

1955 Dutch Government of Drees resigns

1957 Canadian National opens a 40 mile diversion of its Montréal to Toronto main line required in the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)

1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria

1960 The first atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA

1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers

1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district

1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as the film "Don't Look Back"

1968 European Space Research Organization launches first satellite

1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus

1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits

1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra

1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination

1972 Netherlands & China People's Republic exchange ambassadors

1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins first UEFA Cup in London

1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings

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