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Japan invades Manchuria in northern China. It will establish a puppet state that it will rename Manchukuo.
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Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt is resoundingly elected the 32nd U.S. president.
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Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany for the United States. He vows never to return, asserting that he "shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality...prevail."
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French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
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The years of depression continued with unemployment still running at 20.1% , and the war clouds were gathering as Germany began to rearm and passed the Nuremburg laws to strip Jews of their civil rights, and Mussolini's Italy attacked Ethiopia.
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Major News Stories include Jesse Owens wins 4 Gold medals, The Queen Mary begins Atlantic crossings, Spanish Civil War begins, King Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Simpson, Hoover Dam finished, BBC first public TV broadcasts, Crystal Palace Is Destroyed By Fire
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China -- Battle of Shanghai.
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Germany -- Nuclear Fission Discovered.
