but after war came to Europe, he decided to return to France, arriving there in January, 1940.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

They were married on 3 January 1940.

He was mentioned in despatches on 9 August 1940 and 21 March 1941 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1941.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Their Complex Number Calculator, completed January 8, 1940, was able to calculate complex numbers.

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

In January 1940, construction began on a secret plant, code named " Hochwerk " ( High factory ), for the production of tabun at Dyherrnfurth an der Oder ( now Brzeg Dolny in Poland ), on the Oder River from Breslau ( now Wrocław ) in Silesia.

Because of the plant's deep secrecy and the difficult nature of the production process, it took from January 1940 until June 1942 for the plant to become fully operational.

The Pope's appointment of two Jews to the Vatican Academy of Science as well as the hiring of Almagia were reported by The New York Times in the editions of 11 November 1939, and 10 January 1940.

Excerpt of protocol of Politburo meeting of 17 January 1940 noting the decision to put 457 persons on trial and to execute 346 of them with the rest ( 111 ) being sent to GULAG

The Wannsee Villa, which the Stiftung Nordhav acquired in November 1940, was the site of the Wannsee Conference ( 20 January 1942 ).

" 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 January 1940, Menzies dispatched potential leadership rival Richard Casey to Washington as Australia's first " Minister to the United States ".

* January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer ( executed ) ( b. 1940 )

* January 30 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer ( b. 1940 )

The 1940s was the decade that started on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.

* January 6 – Hugh Rodman, American admiral ( d. 1940 )

* January 26 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist ( d. 1940 )

* January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player ( b. 1940 )

* January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( d. 1940 )

Between May 1940 and January 1945, around 1. 1 million people will be killed here.

* January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author

John William Mauchly ( August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980 ) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

Allan Wesley Eckert ( January 30, 1931 – July 7, 2011 ) was an American historian, historical novelist, and naturalist.

Wallace John Eckert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 19, 1902.

The Armed Forces Medical Publication Agency, established in 1949, has published, since January 1950, The United States Armed Forces Medical Journal as a triservice publication to furnish material of professional interest to Medical Department officers of the three military services.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

The first edition of The Beano was dated 30 July 1938, and the 3000th issue was published in January 2000.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

In January 2007, she and her colleagues published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and reported that they have found a virus-like particle ( but without finding nucleic acids so far ) in less than 10 % of the cells a scrapie-infected cell line and in a mouse cell line infected by a human CJD agent.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

All of these atrocities were published on numerous occasions in Pravda and Izvestiya: January 26, 1919 Izvestiya # 18 articale Is it really a medieval imprisonment?

Despite the criticisms, DES was approved as a federal standard in November 1976, and published on 15 January 1977 as FIPS PUB 46, authorized for use on all unclassified data.

In January 1951, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation of Elizabeth, NJ published Dianetic Processing: A Brief Survey of Research Projects and Preliminary Results, a booklet providing the results of psychometric tests conducted on 88 people undergoing Dianetics therapy.

* Dinosaur genus list contains data tables on nearly every published Mesozoic dinosaur genus as of January 2011.

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

WCFL DJ Bob Dearborn unraveled the lyrics and first published his interpretation on 7 January 1972, eight days before the song reached # 1 nationally ( see " Further reading " under American Pie ).

A turn to utopian science fiction with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, published in January 1888, captured the public imagination and catapulted Bellamy to literary fame.

The 2010 census was conducted in November and December, and its results were published January 27, 2011.

In January 1845 Poe published his poem, " The Raven ", to instant success.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

RotoNews. com also launched in January 1997 and published its first player note on February 16, 1997.

"), published in January 1789.

" Down and Out in Paris and London was published on 9 January 1933, as Orwell continued to work on Burmese Days.