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** WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
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** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.
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** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.
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** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.
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** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.
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