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On This Day: HG Wells predicts outbreak of World War Two
May 3, 1933 - British science fiction writer HG Wells successfully predicted 80 years ago today that World War II would begin by 1940 with a clash between Germany and Poland.
In fact, the Nazi regime invaded their eastern neighbour on September 1, 1939 – prompting Britain and France to declare war on Germany two days later.
Wells’s forecast, made in his May 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, was one of many predictions he made during his career that turned out to be true.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/on-this-day--hg-wells-predicts-outbreak-of-world-war-two-101359886.html#LCZLmBd
