1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- January 8, 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 30, 1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
- April 14, 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
- May 1, 1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
- May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- May 14, 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- May 15, 1940 – USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
- May 26, 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- May 28, 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
- June 21, 1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
- June 23, 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
- June 28, 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- July 5, 1940 – World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
- July 19, 1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
- July 25, 1940 – General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- September 7, 1940 – World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
- October 31, 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
- November 16, 1940 – World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
- December 29, 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
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