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The December 2, 1940 issue of Life magazine included a photo essay by Bernard Hoffman entitled, " A Small Town's Saturday Night ," depicting farmer Glen Dunn and family on a typical Saturday night in Franklin: Dad getting a hair cut, and the kids seeing a movie at the Artcraft, people at the drugstore, as well as photos of other social spots, such as Nick's Candy Kitchen and the town's " lovers ' lane.
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In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.
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An analogous decision was published in the Journal officiel in France ( December 2, 1997 ).
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May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.
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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
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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.
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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.
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