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Born to non-practising Jewish parents in Poznan, Poland, in 1925, Bauman escaped into the Soviet zone of occupation, after Poland was invaded by Nazi-German troops in 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26 at the beginning of World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, and later served in a SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1-controlled Polish military unit. After the war, he began to study sociology at the University of Warsaw, where he rose to the position of professor. In March 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the, an anti-Semitic purge in the wake of Israel's Six-Day War drove most surviving and remaining Polish Jews out of the country, including many intellectuals who had fallen from grace with the communist Polish government. Bauman, who had lost his chair at the University of Warsaw. was one of them. He first went to Israel to teach at Tel Aviv University, before accepting a chair in sociology at the University of Leeds, where he intermittently also served as head of department. His research interest focused around social stratification, the labour movement, before shifting to more global concerns, such as the nature of modernity etc. The most prolific period of his career began after his retirement from teaching at Leeds, when he rose to prominence outside the circles of professional sociologists with a book on the presumed connection between the ideology of the modernity and the Holocaust.