Did you know ...
from 1926 to 1940 , the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
from 1908 to 1940 , over 100,000 of the 447 different models for Sears Catalog Homes were sold in the United States ?
in the history of transportation in Los Angeles , the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1 , 1940 ?
on July 1 , 1940 , Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi , killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
the Capitoline Museums are housed in a complex of palazzi surrounding a piazza in Rome , designed by Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940 ?
Sofia Petrovna , a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939 -1940 , and published in the West in 1960s , was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988 ?
Willi Münzenberg (1889 –1940 ) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he combined high living with communist propaganda ?
Estonia joined World War II in 1940 , after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed ?
French Major General René Cogny , who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War , was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
Ernst Kitzinger , a historian of Byzantine art , was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
holidays celebrated in Greece include Το Όχι , literally day of the "no" , which honors Greece's refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers in 1940 ?
1940 's The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies ?
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