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Healy testifies defendants used Roosevelt effigy as gun target, that J F Cassidy wanted to shoot 12 Congressmen as gesture and that Bishop wanted to put Maj Gen Moseley at head of dictatorship after seizing Govt; cross-exam starts
Germans charge Brit plot to dynamite Iron Gate; Rumanians detain Brit barges; bordering States guard river
Asks U S Min to Norway to take charge of Brit interests when Germany invades Norway
press protests Allied mines
1940Hans-Joachim Reske, German sprinter[†]
Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Reske is a West German former track and field athlete, who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in 1962, at the European championships, he finished in third place in the individual 400 m and his team won the 4 × 400 metre relay.
1940Jim Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)[†]
James Wilfred Roberts, known as Jim Roberts or Jimmy Roberts, was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and forward.
1940Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (born 1865)[†]
Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner, better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie. These included Shaw's Pygmalion where she originated the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the West End in 1914. She also toured the United States and appeared briefly in films.
1940World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
1940Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.[†]
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.