Aug 25 The first parachute wedding (how do you kiss the bride?)

Aug 08 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks

Aug 23 German bombers begin night time attacks (The Blitz) on London

Aug 10 Anti-Jewish laws are passed in Romania.

Aug 25 First "parachute wedding."

Aug 27 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)

Aug 01 First expulsion of Jews from Cracow.

Aug 18 Chrysler founder Walter P. Chrysler dies

Aug 20 British PM Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

Aug 31 Hollywood screen stars Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh are married.

Aug 03 The birth of Martin Sheen, American actor

Aug 19 The birth of Jill St John, American actress

Aug 03 Lithuanian is accepted into the USSR

Aug 07 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for an 1856 British Guiana)

Aug 01 HMS OSWALD,sunk 10 miles SE of Cape Spartivento, SW Italy in Ionian Sea - rammed by Italian destroyer 'Vivaldi'.

Aug 17 FDR &Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission

Aug 08 Battle of Britain

Aug 20 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21

Oct 30 HMS STURDY, lost west coast of Scotland, on Tiree Island - ran aground in fog and wrecked.

Oct 26 Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britian is bombed and sunk.

Oct 16 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army

Oct 18 HMS H.49,sunk off Texel island, Holland in North Sea by depth charges from German anti-submarine trawlers UJ.116 and UJ.118. On patrol off Dutch coast at time of threatened German invasion of Britain

Oct 22 HMCS MARGAREE (RCN , ex 'Diana'), lost west of Ireland by collision with SS 'Port Fairy'.

Oct 09 Winston Churchill elected head of the Conservative party

Oct 28 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack

Oct 04 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off

Oct 03 Anti-Jewish laws are passed by the Vichy government.

Oct 16 Lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st

Oct 04 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps

Oct 23 The birth of Pele, Famous Brazilian soccer player

Oct 01 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens

Oct 24 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball

Oct 09 The birth of John Lennon, Former member of 'The Beatles'

Oct 24 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)

Oct 16 Warsaw Ghetto established

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