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Biographies
 Allende, Salvador
 Anderson, Carl David
 Antonescu, Ion
 Asaka
 Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal
 Auden, Wystan Hugh
 Auriol, Vincent
 Averescu, Alexandru
 Bakr, Sidqi
 Baldwin, Stanley
 Beck, Ludwig
 Blair, Eric Arthur
 Blomberg, Werner von
 Bormann, Martin
 Bosch, Juan
 Bragg, William Henry
 Braun, Werner von
 Brooke, Alan Francis
 Brooke-Popham, Robert
 Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich
 Bukharin, Nikolai
 Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
 Calinescu, Armand
 Carol II
 Chamberlain, Neville
 Charlton, Bobby
 Chautemps, Camille
 Chichibu
 Chuh, Teh
 Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
 Ciano
 Cooper, Alfred Duff
 Dalton, Edward Hugh John Neale
 Delbos, Yves
 Dewar, Donald
 Dewey, Thomas Edmund
 Eden, Robert Anthony
 Edward VIII
 Eichmann, Adolf
 Elizabeth II
 Ellington, Duke
 En-Lai, Chou
 Franco-Bahamonde, Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo
 Fumimaro, Konoe
 Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert
 George VI
 Giesler, Paul
 Goering, Herman
 Gramsci, Antonio
 Gropius, Walter
 Guderain, Heinz
 Hashimoto, Ryutaro
 Hata, Shunroku
 Hayashi, Senjuro
 Heath, Edward Richard George
 Henderson, Nevile Meyrick
 Hertzog, James
 Hitler, Adolf
 Ho, Long
 Hoare, Samuel
 Hore-Belisha
 Horton, Max Kennedy
 Hossbach, Friedrich
 Hsueh-Liang, Chang
 Hughes, William Morris
 Hussein, Saddam
 Inskip, Thomas
 Juliana I
 Kai-Shek, Chiang
 Kalinin, Mikhail Ivonovich
 Kapek, Karel
 Karer, Paul
 Konev, Ivan Stepanovich
 Kreisky, Bruno
 Kuo-t'ao, Chang
 Largo Caballero, Francisco
 Lawton, Tommy
 Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard
 Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich
 Louis, Joe
 Ludendorf, Erich von
 Lumley, Roger
 MacDonald, James Ramsey
 Matthews, Stanley
 Messerschmitt, Willy
 Model, Otto Moritz Walter
 Mola, Emilio
 Motta, Giuseppe
 Mussolini, Benito Amilicare Andrea
 Negrin, Juan
 Nehring, Walter Kurt Josef
 Niemoller, Frederich Gustav Emil Martin
 Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
 Ozawa, Jisaburo
 Peirse, Richard
 Peng, Dehuai
 Phipps, Eric
 Pius XI
 Powell, John Enoch
 Prokofiev, Sergei
 Puttkamer, Karl-Jesko von
 Radek, Karl Bernhardovich
 Ribbentrop, Joachim von
 Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen
 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
 Sartre, Jean-Paul
 Schacht, Horace Greeley Hjalmar
 Shalamov, Varlam
 Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich
 Simon
 Simpson, Wallis
 Snowden, Philip
 Somoza Garcia, Anastasio
 Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert
 Sperrie, Hugo
 Stalin, Joseph
 Stanley, Stanley
 Steinbeck, John Ernst
 Stepinac, Aloysius
 Takeda
 Teh, Chu
 Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna
 Tojo, Hideki
 Trujillo, Rafael
 Valera
 Vereker
 Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch
 Wavell
 Weizmann, Chaim Azriel
 Wittman, Michael
 Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley
 Xiaoping, Deng
 Yagoda, Henrik
 Yezhkov, Nikolay Ivanovich
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   Alliance   Kai-Shek, Chiang
  22nd Sep   Chinese Communists declare they will support Chiang Kai-Shek against Japan
   Alliance   Ribbentrop, Joachim von
  6th Nov Berlin   Obtains Mussolini's signature for the Anti-Commintern Pact in Rome
   Alliance   Franco-Bahamonde, Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo
  1st July   The Spanish Bishops endorse Franco's regime
   Alliance   Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal
  9th July Saadabad   Turkey signs a non-aggression pact with Iran, Iraq & Afghanistan
   Ambassador   Henderson, Nevile Meyrick
   Berlin   Appointed Ambassador to Germany
   Ambassador   Phipps, Eric
   Paris   Appointed Ambassador to France
   Archbishop of Zagreb   Stepinac, Aloysius
     Appointed Archbishop of Zagreb
   Armament   Hitler, Adolf
  30th Jan Berlin   Proclaims to the Reichstag Germany's withdrawal from the treaty of Versailles
   Armament   Chamberlain, Neville
     Inroduces a "National Defence Contribution", defeated by the City & backbenchers
   Armament   Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer
  14th Mar   Warns the Commons about Hitler's plans following the German absorption of Austria
   Armament   Dalton, Edward Hugh John Neale
     Persuades the Parliamentary Labour Party to abstain for the annual service estimates
     The Labour Party Conference accepts a proposal from Dalton to oppose appeasement
   Armament   Eden, Robert Anthony
  16th Nov London   Protests to Chamberlain about Halifax's visit to Germany
   Dec London   Supports a "genaral settlement" with Germany including a disarmament & a Western pact
   Armament   Hore-Belisha, Leslie
   London   Supports Chamberlain's policy of appeasement
   Armament   Inskip, Thomas
  22nd Dec London   Inskip's report on arms expenditure is reviewed by the Cabinet, emphasises diplomacy
   Arrest   Hsueh-Liang, Chang
     Hsueh-Liang releases Chiang Kai-Shek & has himself put under Chiang Kai-Shek's arrest
     Placed under house arrest for 50 yrs
   Arrest   Kai-Shek, Chiang
     Placed under house arrest for 50 yrs
   Arrest   Hitler, Adolf
   Dec   Over 800 Protestant pastors are arrested
   Dec   The leader of the Protestant opposition to the German Chris tians is arrested
   Arrest   Niemoller, Frederich Gustav Emil Martin
     Leader of the Protestant opposition, arrested for opposition to the Nazi regime
   Arrest   Bukharin, Nikolai
  27th Feb   Implicated in the Zinoviev & Kamanev show trials & arrested
   Arrest   Radek, Karl Bernhardovich
   Moscow   Arrested during the Moscow trials
   Arrest   Shalamov, Varlam
     Sent to prison 17 yrs for saying Ivan Bunin was a classic of Russian literature
   Assassination   Bakr, Sidqi
  11th Aug Mosul   General Bakr Sidqi, who came to power in Iraq in 1936 through a violent coup, is assassinated in Mosul
   Award Gold Medal   Giesler, Paul
   Paris   Wins a Gold Medal at the Paris World's Fair
   Battle of Barcelona   Largo Caballero, Francisco
  3rd May Barcelona   1st day of battle by Republican Government against anarcho-syndicalists & marxists
  7th May Barcelona   The Republicans submit to attempting to win the war under Communist control
   Battle of Blagovescensk   Fumimaro, Konoe
   Blagovescensk   Japan & Russia clash on the Manchurian-Siberian border
   Battle of Blagoveshchensk   Fumimaro, Konoe
   Blagoveshchensk   Japan & Russia clash on the Manchurian-Siberian border
   Battle of Hunchun   Fumimaro, Konoe
   Hunchun   Japan & Russia clash on the Manchurian-Siberian border
   Berlin Construction   Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert
   Berlin   Directed to make plans to rebuild Berlin, which was to become the capital of a "Greater Germany"
   Birth   Charlton, Bobby
  11th Oct Ashington   Birth of Bobby Charlton
   Birth   Dewar, Donald
     Birth of Donald Dewar
   Birth   Hussein, Saddam
  28th April Al Auja   Birth of Saddam Hussein, near Tikrit
   Birth   Hashimoto, Ryutaro