Table of Data Points

Tag : Europe


	1939-11-23		Rawalpindi	Despite being hopelessly outgunned, 60-year old Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy RN of Rawalpindi decided to fight, rather than surrender. He was heard to say "Well fight them both, theyll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye".	Read about 'Rawalpindi' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Rawalpindi'
	1939-11-21	1939-11-27	Scharnhost and Gneisenau	German battlecruisers cruise the North Atlantic on commerce raiding mission for the first time. Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sortie into the Iceland-Faroes passage	Read about 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau'
	1939-11-17		Prague Demonstrations	Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps.	Read about 'Prague Demonstrations' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Prague Demonstrations'
	1939-11-08		Munich Assasination Attempt	An attempt to assisinate Hitler in Munich fails.	Read about 'Munich Assasination Attempt' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Munich Assasination Attempt'
	1939-11-07		Netherlands	Netherlands and Belgium propose acting as mediators between the waring nations.	Read about 'Netherlands' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Netherlands'
	1939-11-07		Belgium	Netherlands and Belgium propose acting as mediators between the waring nations.	Read about 'Belgium' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Belgium'
	1939-11-06		Sonderaktion Krakau	Polish professors are seized and later sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Dachau. This was part of a Nazi plan to exterminate the Polish intellectual elite	Read about 'Sonderaktion Krakau' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Sonderaktion Krakau'
	1939-10-16		Firth of Forth	German air campaign against Britain begins. During a raid on Firth of Forth, the cruisers Southampton and Edinburgh are damaged.	Read about 'Firth of Forth' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Firth of Forth'
	1939-10-14		Scapa Flow	The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost.	Read about 'Scapa Flow' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Scapa Flow'
	1939-10-12		Finland	Russia begins negotiating with Finland, making territorial demands.	Read about 'Finland' on WikiPedia	Discuss 'Finland'

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