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In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.
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The individual census data most recently released to the public was the 1940 census, released on April 2, 2012.
In October 1940 Holt was elevated to Cabinet, becoming Minister for Labour and National Service, and one of his most significant achievements in this portfolio was the introduction of the Child Endowment Act, passed in April 1941.
Isle Royale National Park was established on April 3, 1940, was designated as a Wilderness Area in 1976, and was made an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980.
Terboven was made Reichskommissar for Norway on 24 April 1940, even before the military invasion was completed on 7 June 1940.
Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.
* May 4 is Liberation Day in Denmark, celebrating the ending of the German occupation from April 9, 1940, to May 4, 1945.
The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.
Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.
The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 19 April 1940, entitled " Quislings everywhere " after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself.
A further change was made after 8 April 1940 to Reichskommissar für die Saarpfalz ; finally, after 11 March 1941, he was made Reichsstatthalter in der " Westmark " ( the region's new name, meaning " Western March or Border ").
On 30 December 1875 this seat was again abolished, but only for a few years as it was reinstated on 8 April 1879, and remained the single parliamentary representation from Africa anywhere in a European legislature until the fall of the third republic in 1940.
" Premiered respectively by Prokofiev ( No. 6: 8 April 1940 ), Sviatoslav Richter ( No. 7: Moscow, 18 January 1943 ) and Emil Gilels ( No. 8: Moscow, 30 December 1944 ), they were subsequently championed in particular by Richter.
In Western Europe, British troops deployed to the Continent, but in a phase nicknamed the Phoney War by the British and " Sitzkrieg " ( sitting war ) by the Germans, neither side launched major operations against the other until April 1940.
In April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway to secure shipments of iron ore from Sweden, which the Allies were about to disrupt.
* April 17 – WWII: Henri Giraud the French commander captured in 1940, escapes from Königstein Fortress.
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The first and most important was the Estonian Popular Front, established in April 1988 with its own platform, leadership and broad constituency.
Popular anger at shortages in Conakry was entwined with anti-government protests, strikes, and violence over the rule of President Lansana Conté and the successive prime ministers, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Eugène Camara, appointed to fill the post after the resignation of Prime Minister François Lonseny Fall in April 2004.
** ( Popular Movement of the Revolution ) December 23, 1970 ( May 20, 1967 de facto )- April 24, 1990
They were briefly described in the April 1950 issue of " Popular Mechanics " and again in the April 1954 issue of " Popular Science " in the section called " New Ideas from the Inventors.
* M. G. Valbert ( Victor Cherbuliez ): The History of a Delusion, Popular Science Monthly, Volume 30, April 1887, pp. 733 – 743
A Popular Front was established in Georgia but remained marginal compared to the dominant dissident-led groups, because the April 9 tragedy had radicalised society and it was unable to play the compromise role of similar movements.
* " Dive Bombing at Target Assures Accuracy " April 1933, Popular Mechanics-early article on dive bombing for general public
* " Diving Artillery ", April 1942, Popular Science good article on the basics of dive bombing with illustration and rare photos
The PFLP was led by former ANM-leader George Habash, but in April 1968 Jibril split from this group to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ), which returned to the strongly pro-Syrian position of the former PLF.
On 11 April 2005, an agreement was announced between Banco Popular North America and the New York Mets.
and is detailed in Fritscher's gay linguistics essay " Homomasculinity: Framing Keywords of Queer Popular Culture " presented at the Queer Keyword Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, April 2005.
*" A Rendezvous in Averoigne ", by Clark Ashton Smith ( Weird Tales, Popular Fiction Publishing Co., April / May 1931 )
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