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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
– World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
– World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
– World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy’s actions with his “Stab in the Back” speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
– The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
– General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
– The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
– Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
– Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Who Were Born On ?
– Judy Cornwell, English actress
– Keith Rowe, English painter and guitarist (AMM)
– Richard Attwood, British racing driver
– Max Mosley, British racing driver, engineer and former president of the FIA
– Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
– Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan
– James Tyler, American musicologist and author (d. 2010)
– Theodore Olson, American politician
– Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
– Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian