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		<title>21-Dec-39: Finns Drive Red Army Back at Kemijarvi; Hitler Acknowledges Stalin&#8217;s 60th Birthday; Canadians Hold Ceremonial Parade at Aldershot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 21-Dec-1939, the 82nd day of World War II; there are 2,081 days left in the conflict.
A Finnish attack at Kemijarvi drives the Soviet Red Army back 20 miles in the region. The Soviets are beginning to move to the defensive in the Winter War.
Soviet General Secretary Josef Stalin turns 60 years old. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17-Dec-39: Soviet Attacks Hammer Mannerheim Line at Summa, Are Repulsed; Finns Refine Successful Tactics, Destroy Two Red Army Divisions; First Canadian Division Lands in Liverpool; French Claim German Reconnaissance Flights Increased Over Western Front</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/599</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 17-Dec-1939, the 78th day of World War II; there are 2,085 days left in the conflict.
The saga of the Admiral Graf Spee German pocket battleship comes to an end in front of a large crowds lining the quays on both sides of the River Plate in South America. The ship had been in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10-Dec-39: Finns Appeal for More Aid from Civilized Nations; US Grants Finland $10 Million in Credit; Soviets Accidentally Sink German Ship; League of Nations Still Meeting; First Canadian Troops Hit the High Seas in Convoy for Europe</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/542</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 10-Dec-1939, the 71st day of World War II; there are 2,092 days left in the conflict.
The Helsinki government issues a general appeal to the rest of the world for aid in the Winter War, stating it has been attacked by the Soviet Union without cause; &#8220;our position as the active outpost of western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13-Nov-39: First British Destroyer Sunk in War; Shetlands Attacked by Luftwaffe; Romanian King Offers Peace Mediation; Finns Break Off Negotiations So Stalin Orders Preparations for War with Finland</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/472</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 13-Nov-1939, the 44th day of World War II; there are 2,119 days left in the conflict.
The British destroyer HMS Blanche strikes a mine and sinks near the Thames estuary, the first Royal Navy destroyer lost in World War II. The Shetland Islands off the Scottish coast becomes the target for the first German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20-Oct-39: Germans to Formally Re-Annex Former Reich Territory on 1-Nov; Lindbergh Lampooned in London; Oxford Psychologist Pronounces Hitler a Parnoid Megalomaniac</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/387</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 20-Oct-1939, the 50th day of World War II; there are 2,143 days left in the conflict.
According to a directive signed by German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, Field Marshall Herman Goering, Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, Deputy National Socialist Party Leader Rudolf Hess and State Secretary Hans-Heinrich Lammers, Germany will annex 11,500 square miles of territory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14-Oct-39: HMS Royal Oak Sunk in Scapa Flow By Surprise U-Boat Attack; 800 British Sailors Dead; Protests Over Lindbergh Radio Broadcast Arise</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/362</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 14-Oct-1939, the 44th day of World War II; there are 2,149 days left in the conflict.
Based on German Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photos which reveal a 50-foot-wide gap in the Royal Navy&#8217;s antisubmarine defenses at the Kirk Sound entrance to the Home Fleet&#8217;s base at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, Unterseeboot Kapitänleutnant Günther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13-Oct-39: Finns, Soviets Continue Meetings; Scandinavian Leaders Plan Conference; Lindbergh Outlines American Neutrality Program, Appeals for Non-Intervention</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/359</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 13-Oct-1939, the 43rd day of World War II; there are 2,150 days left in the conflict.
Moscow meetings on border revisions between the Finns and Soviets are continuing; no news or breakthroughs are reported. Meanwhile, the King of Sweden invites his counterparts in Denmark and Norway as well as Finland&#8217;s president to a conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8-Oct-39: Germany Formally Annexes Polish Territory, Appoints Arthur Greiser Gauleiter; Finns Agree to Soviet Talks; Canadian Troops Prepare for Duty</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/333</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 8-Oct-1939, the 38th day of World War II; there are 2,155 days left in the conflict.
German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler issues a decree in Berlin that officially incorporates conquered Poland into the Greater German Reich. The territory is known as Reichsgau Posen and SS Obergruppenfuhrer Arthur Greiser is named gauleiter.
In Latvia, an estimated 50,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16-Sep-39: Soviets Inform Poles of Imminent Invasion of Eastern Poland; Warsaw Fights On; U-31 Sinks British Ship SS Aviemore</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/228</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 16-Sept-1939. It is the 16th day of the war; there are 2,177 days left in the war.
The command of Polish units defending Warsaw is given to General Walerian Czuma. The capital city is now completely surrounded by German forces, which now issue an ultimatum demanding the capital&#8217;s complete, unconditional surrender.
However, given that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15-Sep-39: Japan, Soviet Union Sign Armistice; Warsaw Commander Refuses German Surrender Demands; First British Trans-Atlantic Convoy Sails from Halifax</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/225</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 15-Sept-1939. It is the 15th day of the war; there are 2,178 days left in the war.
Japan and the Soviet Union end the four-month-old &#8220;Nomonhan Incident&#8221; &#8212; in which the Japanese were disastrously defeated in the Battle of Khalkin Gol &#8212; with an armistice agreement signed in Moscow.
After their defeat in the battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10-Sep-39: Canada Declares War on Germany; Luftwaffe Raids Warsaw 15 Times; British Expeditionary Force Builds Up in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King asks a special session of Parliament to approve his request that Canada join the war against Germany. Most Canadians see the coming of war one week after the declarations of war by England and France as inevitable. A few days before, a solemn King George VI took to [...]]]></description>
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