1936 Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "Axis"
1939 The first animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 Trans Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights
1940 The first US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1943 Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
1944 Final mass gassing at Auschwitz, 73 women are murdered. The remainder of the prisoners, approximately 2,300, are deported to Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen to meet the growing slave labor demand.
1945 Australia ratifies Charter of United Nations
1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1947 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ and UK
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House
1951 Award of Republic of South Korea Presidential Citation to 77 Squadron, RAAF
1951 The first atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1952 The first hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 Delhi becomes a territory of the Indian union
1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed
1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1959 Goalie Jacques Plant wears a hockey mask fo rthe first time in a game
1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 Greece enters the European Common Market
1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1963 Revolt against the Diem regime in South Vietnam
