* 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.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships.

Visitors to the site in December 1954 reported being deeply shocked by the conditions and the constant screams from the cell-block still in use for convicts who had gone insane and which had only tiny ventilation slots at the tops of the walls under the roof.

Saints Sergius of Valaam | Sergius and Herman of Valaam | Herman of Valaam Chapel, built in 1898 over the site where St. Herman was buried on Spruce Island in December 1836.

On December 21, construction machinery was already on the Legends site waiting to break ground.

In December 2008, machinima. com signed fifteen experienced television comedy writers — including Patric Verrone, Bill Oakley, and Mike Rowe — to produce episodes for the site.

Before a mutual solution could be devised, the mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992 as the mosque was built by Babur allegedly on the site of a previous Hindu temple marking the birthplace of Rama.

" The Heart of Neolithic Orkney " was inscribed as a World Heritage site in December 1999.

Nag Hammadi is best known for being the site where local farmers found a sealed earthenware jar containing thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices, together with pages torn from another book, in December 1945.

After a site survey in September by Papa Riedel and Schubert, Kammler chose the code name Zement ( cement ) for it in December, and work to blast an underground cavern into a cliff at Lake Traunsee near Gmunden commenced in January 1944.

Under the terms of the Peace of Louviers ( December 1195 ) between Richard and Philip II, neither king was allowed to fortify the site ; despite this, Richard intended to build the vast Chateau Gaillard.

" The Heart of Neolithic Orkney " was inscribed as a World Heritage site in December 1999.

The complete list of each year's winners appear in the December issue of the magazine, as well as on the magazine's web site.

Near the airport is the site of a closed ( December 2000 ) alumina factory which processed bauxite from Suriname and West Africa.

* December 3 – A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri.

* December – The British government begins work on a 40-acre ( 162, 000 m² ) site at Norman Cross for the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp.

* December 27 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed in New Amsterdam at the site of the future ( 1862 ) Flushing Town Hall in New York.

A paid subscription version of the site followed, and was purchased by Rhapsody on December 1st, 2011.

* 18 December 2001: Announcement of sale of site to Meridian Delta Ltd, who plan to turn it into a 20, 000-seat sports and entertainment venue.

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* Church of Santa Maria Maggiore ( 1520 ), site of the preparatory congregations of the Third Council of Trent ( April 1562 – December 1563 ).

The University of Minnesota Rochester ( UMR ) is the newest campus of the University of Minnesota system, having been formally established in December 2006 ( although the University of Minnesota has offered classes in Rochester as a satellite site since as early as 1966 ).

In December 2001, three Georgian woodcutters stumbled over such a power generator and dragged it back to their camp site to use it as a heat source.

Marvin Davis and his military police unit arrived at the site from Los Alamos on December 30, 1944.