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RAF bombs Lorient, Essen Krupp works, other German indus objectives, Dunkerque shipping, and Abbeville and Lannion air bases; Swiss observers rept Brit raid on Friedrichshafen
RAF bombs Valona and Ital indus objectives
Sinking; SOS
Willkie backers plan strong opposition party; O Root Jr, Assoc Willkie Clubs chmn, outlines plans to continue organization
Roosevelt repts steel plant plans for West Coast and aluminum plant opening on Columbia River
1940Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (born 1876)[†]
Bishop Stephen Peter Alencastre, SSCC was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the fifth and last Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. He was also an apparent titular bishop of Arabissus.
1940Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)[†]
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
1940Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.[†]
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures 517 km2 (200 sq mi) and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers 6,100 km2 (2,355 sq mi). Warsaw is classified as an alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship.