| Date | Event |
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1940 |
Lasse Åberg Was Born |
|
1940 |
Dieter Acker Was Born |
|
1940 |
Jehan Alain Died |
|
1940 |
Petur Alberg Died |
|
1940 |
Vyacheslav Artyomov Was Born |
|
1940 |
Heidi Baader-Nobs Was Born |
|
1940 |
Rhené-Baton Died |
|
1940 |
Juraj Beneš Was Born |
|
1940 |
Robert Broberg Was Born |
|
1940 |
Margaret Brouwer Was Born |
|
1940 |
Robert-Guillaume Casadesus Died |
|
1940 |
Frederick Converse Died |
|
August
29
1940 |
Arthur De Greef Died |
|
1940 |
Fini Henriques Died |
|
1940 |
Maurice Jaubert Died |
|
1940 |
David C. Johnson Was Born |
|
1940 |
Paul Juon Died |
|
1940 |
Vítězslava Kaprálová Died |
|
1940 |
Walter Kollo Died |
|
1940 |
Dary John Mizelle Was Born |
|
1940 |
Giorgio Moroder Was Born |
|
1940 |
Peer Raben Was Born |
|
1940 |
Silvestre Revueltas Died |
|
1940 |
Roger Rossi Was Born |
|
December
28
1940 |
Alvin Singleton Was Born |
|
1940 |
Lewis Spratlan Was Born |
|
1940 |
István Thomán Died |
|
1940 |
Donald Tovey Died |
|
1940 |
Frank Zappa Was Born |
|
January
07
1940 |
Finnish Troops Destroy Overwhelming Soviet Forces |
|
January
08
1940 |
Food Rations Begin In Britain |
|
January
29
1940 |
81 People Die In Train Accident In Osaka |
|
February
07
1940 |
Disney's Pinocchio Premieres |
|
February
10
1940 |
Soviet Union Begins Mass Deportations |
|
February
16
1940 |
Brits Free 299 Held On Altmark |
|
February
27
1940 |
Kamen And Ruben Discover Carbon-14 |
|
February
28
1940 |
Fordham, Pitt Play Basketball On TV |
|
February
29
1940 |
McDaniel First African American To Win Oscar |
|
February
29
1940 |
Finland In Peace Negotiations |
|
February
29
1940 |
1939 Nobel: Ernest Lawrence Physics |
|
March
03
1940 |
5 People Die In Fire In Luleå |
|
March
05
1940 |
Stalin And Politburo Approved Polish Massacre |
|
March
12
1940 |
Finland Signs Moscow Peace Treaty |
|
March
13
1940 |
The Russo-Finnish Winter War Ends |
|
March
16
1940 |
James Isbister Is Killed In Bombing Raid |
|
March
18
1940 |
Hilter And Mussolini Team Up Against Allies |
|
March
23
1940 |
Lahore Resolution, General Convention Of League |
|
March
30
1940 |
Japan Declares Nanking Capital Of Chinese Government |
|
April
07
1940 |
Booker Washington Is Depicted On Stamp |
|
April
09
1940 |
Vidkun Quisling Seizes Power In Norway |
|
April
09
1940 |
Germans Invade Denmark And Norway |
|
April
14
1940 |
Royal Marines , Larger Force To Arrive |
|
April
15
1940 |
Allies Begin Norwegian Attack In Narvik |
|
April
23
1940 |
Fire Kills 198 In Night Club |
|
April
25
1940 |
Faroe Islands Flag Approved By British |
|
May
01
1940 |
1940 Summer Olympics Cancelled |
|
May
05
1940 |
Norwegian Refugees Exiled In London Form Government |
|
May
05
1940 |
Norwegian Campaign-Norwegian Squads Capitulate German Forces |
|
May
06
1940 |
Steinbeck Is Awarded The Pulitzer Prize |
|
May
07
1940 |
Churchill Replaces Chamberlain In Norway Debate |
|
May
09
1940 |
U-9 Sinks Doris Near Den Helder |
|
May
10
1940 |
Accidental Bombing In Freiburg, Germany WWII |
|
May
10
1940 |
Germany Begins Raids On British Convoys, Airfields |
|
May
10
1940 |
Germany Invades Belgium, Netherlands And Luxembourg |
|
May
10
1940 |
Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister |
|
May
10
1940 |
UK Invades Iceland In World War II |
|
May
10
1940 |
Start 1-st premiership of sir Winston Churchill |
|
May
13
1940 |
Germany's Conquest Of France Begins |
|
May
13
1940 |
Queen Wilhelmina Flees To Great Britain |
|
May
14
1940 |
Rotterdamn Is Bombed By The Luftwaffe |
|
May
14
1940 |
Netherland Battle Ends When It Surrenders To Germany |
|
May
14
1940 |
First Flight Of Yermolayev Yer-2 Soviet Bomber |
|
May
15
1940 |
USS Squalus Recommissioned As USS Sailfish |
|
May
15
1940 |
Dutch Surrender To Germany |
|
May
15
1940 |
McDonald's Opens First Restaurant |
|
May
17
1940 |
Germany Occupies Brussels, Belgium |
|
May
17
1940 |
Lutwaffe Bombs In Middelburg Forces Dutch Surrender |
|
May
20
1940 |
First Prisoners Arrive At Auschwitz |
|
May
24
1940 |
Igor Silkorsky Flew A Single-rotor Helicopter |
|
May
24
1940 |
Iosif Grigulevich Attempts To Assassinate Leon Trotsky |
|
May
25
1940 |
Germany Wins Battle Of Boulogne |
|
May
26
1940 |
World War II: Allied Forces Evacuate Dunkirk |
|
May
26
1940 |
Siege Of Calais Ends With The Surrender |
|
May
27
1940 |
Surrendering Troops Massacred By Germans |
|
May
28
1940 |
Belgium Surrenders To Nazis Ending Battle Of Belgium |
|
May
28
1940 |
First Ally Victory In World War 2 Recapture In Norway |
|
May
29
1940 |
The First Flight Of The Vought F4U Corsair |
|
June
03
1940 |
The Luftwaffe Bombs Paris |
|
June
03
1940 |
Germans Defeat Allies At Dunkirk |
|
June
03
1940 |
Madagascar Proposed New Jewish Homeland |
|
June
04
1940 |
Churchill Rallies Country With Dunkirk Speech |
|
June
05
1940 |
Operation Fall Rot Occures |
|
June
07
1940 |
Different Royalties Go To London |
|
June
08
1940 |
Operation Alphabet Ends Norwegian Campaign At Narvik |
|
June
10
1940 |
Roosevelt Denounces Italy's Action In Speech |
|
June
10
1940 |
Norway Surrenders To Germany |
|
June
10
1940 |
Italy Declares War On France And Uk |
|
June
12
1940 |
British And French Troops Surrender |
|
June
14
1940 |
Paris Falls, Allies Retreat |
|
June
14
1940 |
Lithuania Loses Independence To Soviet Union |
|
June
14
1940 |
728 Polish Prisoners Become 1st Residents Of Auscwitz |
|
June
15
1940 |
Operation Ariel Allied Troops Evacuate France |
|
June
16
1940 |
Petain Becomes Vichy France Chief Of State |
|
June
16
1940 |
Communist Government Installed In Lithuania |
|
June
17
1940 |
3k Killed During WWII Sinking Of RMS Lancastria |
|
June
17
1940 |
British 11th Army Defeats Italians In Libya |
|
June
17
1940 |
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Now Occupied By Soviet Union |
|
June
18
1940 |
"Finest Hour" Speech By Winston Churchill |
|
June
18
1940 |
Appeal Of June 18 By Charles De Gaulle |
|
June
20
1940 |
WWII: Italians Unsuccessfully Attempt France Invasion |
|
June
21
1940 |
First Successful Of Northwest Passage |
|
June
22
1940 |
France Forced Into Armistice With Germany |
|
June
23
1940 |
WWII: Hitler Surveys Defeated Paris |
|
June
24
1940 |
Operation Collar, British Commando Raid, Takes Place |
|
June
25
1940 |
France Surrenders To Germany In World War II |
|
June
26
1940 |
Soviet Ultimatum To Romania: Cede Bessarabia, Bukovina |
|
June
28
1940 |
Romania Cedes Bessarabia (Moldova) To Soviets |
|
July
02
1940 |
Subhas Bose Is Arrested In Calcutta |
|
July
03
1940 |
Three French Ships Sunk By Britain |
|
July
05
1940 |
United Kingdom, France Break Off Diplomacy |
|
July
06
1940 |
Australia's Longest Cantilever Bridge Opened |
|
July
10
1940 |
Vichy Government Established In France |
|
July
10
1940 |
Luftwaffe Attacks Brits In English Channel |
|
July
11
1940 |
Phillppe Pétain Becomes Leader Of Vichy France |
|
July
19
1940 |
Battle Of Cape Spada Occurs |
|
July
19
1940 |
Hitler Appointed Field Marshals |
|
July
19
1940 |
Army Order 112 Forms Intelligence Corps |
|
July
20
1940 |
Denmark Leaves The League Of Nations |
|
July
20
1940 |
Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's First Freeway |
|
July
23
1940 |
Wells Denies Annex Of Baltic States |
|
July
25
1940 |
Swiss Army Ordered To Resist German Advance |
|
July
27
1940 |
Bugs Bunny Is Introduced To Audiences |
|
August
03
1940 |
Italy Invades British Somaliland |
|
August
05
1940 |
Soviet Union Annexes Latvia In World War II |
|
August
06
1940 |
Soviet Union Wrongfully Annexes Estonia |
|
August
07
1940 |
Third Reich Annexes Alsace-Lorraine |
|
August
08
1940 |
Keitel Signs ""Aufbau Ost' |
|
August
15
1940 |
Greek Cruiser Sunk By Italian Submarine |
|
August
19
1940 |
First Flight Of B-25 Bomber |
|
August
20
1940 |
Ramon Mercader Killed Trotzky With An Ice Axe In Mexico City |
|
August
20
1940 |
Winston Churchill Makes Fourth Wartime Speech |
|
August
26
1940 |
Chad Is First To Join Allies |
|
August
30
1940 |
Transylvania Becomes Part Of Hungary |
|
August
31
1940 |
Pennsylvania Central Airlines Crash Investigated |
|
September
06
1940 |
Son Succeeds Abdicated King Carol II |
|
September
07
1940 |
Romania Looses Southern Dobruja To Bulgaria |
|
September
09
1940 |
Stibitz Pioneers Remote Computer Operation |
|
September
09
1940 |
Hungarian Army Kill 93 Romanian Civilians |
|
September
11
1940 |
George Stibitz Remotely Operated A Computer |
|
September
12
1940 |
Cave Paintings Found At Lascaux |
|
September
12
1940 |
Explosion In Kenvil Kills 51, 200 Injured |
|
September
14
1940 |
Hungarian Army Act Of Ethnic Cleansing |
|
September
15
1940 |
Royal Air Force Shoots Down Large Numbers Of Luftwaffe |
|
September
16
1940 |
Sidi Barrani Conquered In World War II |
|
September
17
1940 |
Defeated Hitler Postpones Sea Lion Indefinitely |
|
September
18
1940 |
Germans Sink British Liner SS Benares |
|
September
19
1940 |
Pilecki Sent To Auschwitz As Resistence |
|
September
27
1940 |
Axis Powers Sign Tripartite Pact |
|
September
29
1940 |
Two Avro Ansons Collide |
|
October
01
1940 |
The First Superhighway In US, Pennsylvania Turnpike Opens |
|
October
04
1940 |
Hitler And Mussolini Are At Brenner Pass |
|
October
07
1940 |
McCollum Proposes US Entry Into WWII |
|
October
09
1940 |
St. Paul's, London, Bombed By Germans |
|
October
14
1940 |
Balham Underground Station Disaster Occurs In London |
|
October
15
1940 |
Franco Has President Of Catalonia Executed |
|
October
16
1940 |
The Warsaw Ghetto Is Established |
|
October
21
1940 |
Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls Is Published |
|
October
25
1940 |
Davis Named First African American General |
|
October
26
1940 |
The P-51 Mustang Makes Its Maiden Flight |
|
October
28
1940 |
Greece Rejects Italy Ultimatium, Italy Invades Greece |
|
October
31
1940 |
United Kingdom Prevents Possible German Invasion |
|
November
02
1940 |
Greece, Italy Clash In Elaia, Kalamas |
|
November
05
1940 |
German Battleship Sinks British Cruiser |
|
November
07
1940 |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses After 4 Months |
|
November
08
1940 |
Italian Invasion Fails In Greece |
|
November
09
1940 |
Warsaw Is Awarded The Virtuti Militari |
|
November
10
1940 |
1940 Earthquake In Romania Killed Estimated 1,000 |
|
November
11
1940 |
Royal Navy Strikes Aircraft Carrier At Taranto |
|
November
11
1940 |
Germans Capture Top Secret British Mail |
|
November
11
1940 |
Armistice Day Blizzard Kills 144 In Midwest |
|
November
12
1940 |
French Win Battle Of Gabon |
|
November
12
1940 |
Molotov Considers Joining The Axis Powers |
|
November
13
1940 |
The Film Fantasia Is First Released |
|
November
14
1940 |
Coventry Bombed By Germany, Cathedral Destroyed |
|
November
16
1940 |
England Gets Revenge; Bombs Hamburg |
|
November
16
1940 |
Nazis Close Off The Warsaw Ghetto |
|
November
16
1940 |
Bomb Placed At Consolidated Edison Building By Metesky |
|
November
18
1940 |
Hitler And Ciano Discuss Mussolini's Greece |
|
November
20
1940 |
WWII: Hungary Officially Joins Axis Powers |
|
November
22
1940 |
WW2: Italy Invades, Greece Counterattack Korytsa Albania |
|
November
23
1940 |
WWII: Romania Officially Joins Axis Powers |
|
November
24
1940 |
First Slovak Republic Becomes Signatory |
|
November
25
1940 |
Mosquito And Maurader Saw WWII Action |
|
November
27
1940 |
Romanian Fascists Kill Dissidents Including King's Aides |
|
November
27
1940 |
Marina Engaged For Battle Of Cape |
|
November
30
1940 |
Lucille Ball Marries Desi Arnaz |
|
December
09
1940 |
British Forces Attack Sidi Barrani Egypt |
|
December
12
1940 |
70 People Die In Air Raid |
|
December
22
1940 |
During World War II Himarë Was Captured By Greek Army |
|
December
23
1940 |
Greek Submarine Sinks Italian Antoneietta |
|
December
29
1940 |
Luftwaffe Fire-bombs London Killing 200 Civilians |