* Constantine II of Greece ( born 1940 ), Olympic champion ( 1960 ) and formerly King of the Hellenes March 6, 1964 – December 8, 1974

He rejoined Kelly in December 1940 by which time the torpedo damage had been repaired.

In December 1940 he wrote in Tribune ( the Labour left's weekly ): " We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

While preparing for the Invasion of Russia, Hitler decided to attack Greece in December 1940 to prevent a British attack on his southern flank.

His rank of lieutenant-general was made permanent in December 1940.

John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 ) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member

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.

The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis called at Kerguelen during December 1940.

Fuchs was put into camps on the Isle of Man and later in Quebec, Canada, from June to December 1940.

Following the occupation of Luxembourg by Germany on the 10 May 1940, recruitment for the Company of Volunteers continued until the 4 December 1940 when they were moved to Weimar in Germany to be trained as German police.

The invasion was cancelled in December 1940, when Hitler ordered preparations to be made for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

In December 1939 he was commissioned by Chatto & Windus to illustrate a children's book, Ride a Cock Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, published for the Christmas market in 1940.

On 6 and 7 December 1940 the Nazi German auxiliary cruisers Orion and Komet sank four merchant ships.

Planning started on 18 December 1940 ; the secret preparations and the military operation itself lasted from June to December 1941.

On 5 December 1940, Hitler received military plans for the invasion, and approved them all, with the start scheduled for May 1941.

For Adolf Hitler, the circumstance was no dilemma, because the Drang nach Osten (" Drive towards the East ") policy secretly remained in force, culminating on 18 December 1940 with Directive No. 21, Operation Barbarossa, approved on 3 February 1941, and scheduled for mid-May 1941.

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.

Food prices were stabilised in December 1939, initially as temporary measure, but made permanent in August 1940, while both milk and meals were provided at subsidised prices, or free in those cases of real need.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1940.

More than 100, 000 workers were removed from " unsuitable " jobs and conscripted by the Ministry of Labour ; by December 1941, Czechs could be called to work anywhere within the Reich.

To fulfill its obligations under its Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan, the Reich government immediately began preparing to issue a declaration of war on the U. S. on 11 December.

* December 8 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government.

The law is codified in Article 116 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, which provides access to German citizenship for anyone " who has been admitted to the territory of the German Reich within the boundaries of December 31, 1937 as a refugee or expellee of German ethnic origin or as the spouse or descendant of such person ".

*" The Greenspan years ": an article in the TLS by Robert B. Reich, December 19, 2007

On 12 December 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor and the day after Germany declared it was at war with the United States, Reich was arrested in his home at 2 a. m. by the FBI and taken to Ellis Island, where he was held for over three weeks.

Reich appealed the lower court's decision in October 1956, but the Court of Appeals upheld it on 11 December.

The need was now pressing, as Germany had declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, and Galland was keen to build up a force that could withstand the resurgence of the Western Allied Air Forces in preparation for what would become known as the Defence of the Reich campaign.

On December 4, 1932, Schleicher met with Strasser, and offered to restore the Prussian government from Reich control and make Strasser the new minister-president of Prussia.

In December 1944, when the allies had already liberated virtually all of Belgium, its territory was split up into three Gau-type entities as integral (" Germanic ") parts of the Reich: the bi-cultural Belgian capital Brussels ( Brüssel in German, Brussel in Dutch and Bruxelles in French ) remained directly under the German Reichskommissar as a Brussels District, but the bulk of the country was divided ethno-linguistically and placed under collaborating Belgian fascist party leaders ( though with very little local support ) as Gauleiters and with Führer-imitating titles in their national languages:

* David Reich, " A Tempest in the Rabbinate: An Interview with Carol Harris-Shapiro " in World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association November / December 1999

On 3 December 1941 Sänger sent his initial proposal for a suborbital glider to the Reich Air Ministry ( RLM ) as Geheime Kommandosache Nr.

On December 8, 1931, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, a personal friend of Goerdeler, appointed him as Reich Price Commissioner, and entrusted him with the task of overseeing his deflationary policies.

The battalion retreated to Nikopol where it helped to defend the German salient there until it was withdrawn back to the Reich at the end of December.

Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet Reich Uchtdorf, were married on 14 December 1962.

It was legal for IBM to service the Third Reich directly, but only until America entered the war in December 1941.

Frank Michael Reich, Jr. ( born December 4, 1961 ) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and the Detroit Lions.

Falkenhorst was dismissed from his command on 18 December 1944, for opposing certain radical policies of Josef Terboven, the Nazi Reich Commissioner for the civil authorities of German-occupied Norway.

On 1 September 1939, SA-Obergruppenführer Sprenger became Reich Defence Commissar of Defence District XII, and as of 1 December 1943 also in the Gau of Hesse-Nassau.

On 22 December 2008, Mr. Reich removed his agency's western director, Darrel W. Dochow for allowing IndyMac to backdate a capital infusion of $ 18 million from its parent company so that the bank would appear " well capitalized " in its 10-Q for the period ending 31 March 2008.

Elfriede Lohse Wächtler ( December 4, 1899 in Dresden-July 31, 1940 in Pirna ) was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as " degenerate art ", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich.