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Years:	1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

[edit] Events

January 1 - World War II: The term "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
January 2 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines.
January 5 - Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary - assumed drowned
January 6 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
January 7 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins
January 11 - World War II: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.
January 11 - World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
January 12 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
January 13 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car
January 16 - Airplane crashes near Las Vegas. Dead include Carole Lombard and her mother
January 19 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
January 20 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
January 25 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
January 26 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
January 14 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (born 1883)
January 16 - Carole Lombard, actress
January 26 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (born 1868)
February 19 - Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman (executed)
February 28 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral
March 1 - Cornelius Vanderbilt III, military officer, inventor, engineer
March 8 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player
April 15 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist
April 18 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and socialite
May 3 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark
May 7 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
May 29 - John Barrymore, actor (born 1882)
July 23 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish Jew (suicide)
August 3 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)
August 6 - Jonathan Campbell, film pioneer (born 1875)
August 25 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
November 1 - Hugo Distler, German composer (born 1908)
November 5 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer
November 19 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (born 1892)
December 22 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (born 1858)