Deaths on September 8

Rıza Nur

Died on September 8, 1942

Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)

Rıza Nur (August 30, 1879 in Sinop–September 8, 1942 in Istanbul) was a Turkish surgeon, politician and writer. He was prominent in the years immediately after the First World War, where he served as a cabinet minister but was subsequently marginalised, and became a critic of Ataturk. His acclaimed autobiography Hayat ve Hatiratim was written from exile in France and Egypt as an alternative narrative to Ataturk's famous speech Nutuk that has dominated the historiography of Turkey. Like Halide Edib and Rauf Orbay, Riza Nur's work is part of a body of early Republican literature that sought plurality in the increasingly authoritarian Turkish Republic.

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8 Mar

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World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
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Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
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Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
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World War II: Swiss Police instruction dictates that "Under current practice ... refugees on the grounds of race alone are not political refugees", effectively denying entry to Jews trying to flee occupied Europe during the Holocaust.

Deaths on September 8

Rıza Nur

Died on September 8, 1942

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Manhattan Project

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