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1939-11-29Finland

The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Finland.

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1939-11-26Mainila Shelling

Red Army shelling of Soviet village Mainila staged to implicate Finland and providing the casus belli for the invasion of Finland

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1939-11-23Rawalpindi

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".

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1939-11-211939-11-27Scharnhost 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

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1939-11-17Prague 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.

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1939-11-08Munich Assasination Attempt

An attempt to assisinate Hitler in Munich fails.

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1939-11-07Netherlands

Netherlands and Belgium propose acting as mediators between the waring nations.

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1939-11-07Belgium

Netherlands and Belgium propose acting as mediators between the waring nations.

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1939-11-06Sonderaktion 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

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1939-11-04Third Term

President Roosevelt wins a third term.

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