the Polish Campaign. Polish resistance moves underground. October 7 – WWII: British Royal Navy cruiser departs Plymouth in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying £2M in gold bar to be used for purchase of military materiel in North America, a predecessor of Operation Fish. October 8 WWII: Germany annexes Western Poland. The Holocaust: Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto, the first Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, is proclaimed in German-occupied Poland. October 14 – sinks the British battleship at anchor in Scapa Flow (Scotland), with the loss of 833 crew. October 15 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated. October 21 – The first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium is held under Lyman James Briggs, authorized by President Roosevelt to oversee neutron experiments, a precursor of the Manhattan Project. October 22 – In the first televised NFL football game, the Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 23–14 at Ebbets Field. October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware. November November – Lebensborn: Policy of kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany initiated in occupied Poland. November 1–2 – WWII: Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems, and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service. November 4 – WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations. November 4 – Stewart Menzies is appointed head of the British Secret Intelligence Service. November 6 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host (the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure among the Hollywood elite). WWII: Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków, and other Kraków universities. November 8 WWII: In Munich, an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler is made by Georg Elser, while Hitler is celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. CBS television station W2XAB resumes test transmission, with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. November 9 – WWII: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. November 14 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. November 16 – Al Capone is released from Terminal Island, due to deteriorating