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Centuries : 19th century - 20th century 21st century
Decades : 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 - 1940 - 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Events
January 5 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
January 12 - World War II : Russia bombs cities in Finland .
June 21 - France surrenders to Germany
February 2 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra
February 2 - The Complex Number Calculator, a calculator for complex arithmetic based on relays, was completed. (see History of computing ).
February 2 - The first transposons are discovered in maize (Zea mays , aka corn) by Barbara McClintock .
February 23 - World War II : Soviet Union troops conquer Lasi Island[?] .
February 29 - For her role as as Mammy in Gone with the Wind Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress).
March 12 - Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War . Finns, and the World opinion, shocked by the harsh terms.
March 18 - World War II : Axis powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom .
April 7 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp .
May 10 - World War II : Germany invades Belgium , the Netherlands , and Luxembourg .
May 13 - World War II: Nazi Germany 's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River .
May 14 - World War II: The Dutch city of Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe .
May 14 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany .
May 15 - World War II: German troops occupy Amsterdam and invade Northern France .
May 15 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States .
May 17 - World War II : Germany occupies Brussels , Belgium
May 20 - Holocaust : The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz .
May 24 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
May 25 - World War II : The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
May 26 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France , Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk .
May 28 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany .
July 5 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
November - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Wendell L. Wilkie in the U.S. presidential election
November 11 - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto
November 11 - The German Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) Atlantis top secret[?] British mail, and sends it to Japan
December 30 - California opens its first freeway the Arroyo Seco Parkway[?] .
USSR annexes the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Germany begins a bombing campaign against Britain in preparation for an invasion, in what becomes known as the Battle of Britain .
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 14 - Julian Bond[?] , civil rights activist[?] (cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , chairman of NAACP board of directors)
January 20 - Carol Heiss[?] , Olympic figure skating gold medalist
January 22 - John Hurt , actor
February 3 - Fran Tarkenton[?] , Football Hall of Famer
February 4 - George Romero[?] , horror movie writer, producer, director
February 5 - H.R. Giger , artist
February 6 - Tom Brokaw , news anchorman
February 8 - Ted Koppel , journalist
February 19 - Smokey Robinson , musician
February 25 - Ron Santo[?] , baseball player
February 28 - Mario Andretti[?] , automobile driver
February 29 - Edward Frederick Benson , American writer
March 7 - Rudi Dutschke[?] , student leader (+ 1979 )
March 7 - Daniel J. Travanti[?] , actor
March 9 - John Cale , composer, musician
March 9 - Raul Julia[?] , actor (+ 1994 )
March 10 - Dean Torrence[?] , musician ("Jan and Dean ")
March 10 - Chuck Norris , actor, martial arts practitioner
March 12 - Al Jarreau[?] , singer
March 15 - Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead
March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian writer and film director
March 22 - Haing S. Ngor[?] , actor (+ 1996 )
March 24 - Bob Mackie[?] , costume designer
March 30 - Astrud Gilberto[?] , singer
April 2 - Penelope Keith , actress
April 16 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
April 25 - Al Pacino , actor
April 26 - Giorgio Moroder , composer
May 8 - Ricky Nelson , pop singer, (+ 1985 )
May 9 - James L. Brooks[?] , producer, writer
May 11 - Juan Downey , video artist (+ 1993 )
May 20 - Stan Mikita[?] , Hockey Hall of Famer
May 20 - Sadaharu Oh , baseball star
June 23 - Adam Faith , English singer and actor
June 23 - Wilma Rudolph , American runner
July 7 - Ringo Starr , English drummer (Beatles )
August 3 - Martin Sheen , American actor
November 27 - Bruce Lee
October 9 - John Lennon , English musician and singer (Beatles )
October 14 - Cliff Richard , English pop singer
December 21 - Frank Zappa , American rock musician , composer and satirist
Deaths
February 11 - John Buchan , 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935 -1940).
March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov[?] , Russian writer
March 16 - Selma Lagerlöf , writer
May 25 - Joe De Grasse , pioneer Hollywood film director
May 28 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (*1868)
June 10 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey , publisher , entrepreneur , black nationalist
June 29 - Paul Klee , Swiss artist
August 21 - Leon Trotsky , Russian revolutionary
October 10 - Berton Churchill , pioneer Hollywood actor
October 11 - Lluís Companys , President of Catalan Generalitat , shot at Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona .
November 9 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Nobel Prizes
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