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Article: IN HISTORY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 26, 1999
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1940 - Americans elect President Franklin Roosevelt a third time while Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister. The Battle of Britain hangs in the balance and the Nazis build Auschwitz. Ernest Hemingway writes For Whom the Bell Tolls and Woody Guthrie sings This Land is Your Land. Radar and nylon stockings arrive. In Seattle, Yesler Terrace public housing opens, the first non-segregated complex. Pio de Cano successfully challenges a 1921 Alien Land Law forbidding Filipino-Americans from owning land. The Lake Washington Floating Bridge opens while Tacoma's Narrows Bridge falls apart in a windstorm.
1941 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and U.S enters World ...
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