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1894 – 1941Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)Died 14 August 1941, aged 47Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger condemned to starvation at Auschwitz. He was killed by lethal injection and canonised in 1982.
1941Atlantic Charter issuedRoosevelt and Churchill set out shared war aimsAfter meeting aboard warships in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Roosevelt and Churchill issued a joint declaration of principles for the postwar world. Its commitments to self-determination and collective security later shaped the founding of the United Nations.