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1935:     GERMANY: Chancellor Adolf Hitler denounces any arms restrictions of the Versailles treaty and decrees a law establishing a peacetime army of 500,000 men. The Versailles treaty allowed Germany to have no more than 100,000 men under arms thus, Germany abrogates another provision of the agreements that had aimed to contain her. 

March 16th, 1939 (THURSDAY)

GERMANY: Hitler decrees that Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia are now a protectorate of the Reich.

HUNGARY:  Hungarian troops occupy the former Czech province of Carpatho-Ukraine with Germany's approval. 

INDIA: Flt. Lt. Subroto Mukherjee takes over command of No. 1 Squadron Indian Air Force, from Sqn Ldr C H Smith, becoming the first Indian to command a flight.

JAPAN: Nagoya: The prototype Mitsubishi A6M Type 0 fighter is declared ready for tests.  

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