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September 1939
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Britain, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany
S.S. Athenia torpedoed by a German U-boat north west of Ireland
RAF bombers attack German ships in the Heligoland Bight, without much effect.
Winston Churchill appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he held at the start of the First World War