1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- January 29, 1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden’s Consul General in San Francisco.
- March 18, 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
- May 1, 1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
- May 29, 1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- June 17, 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- June 22, 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
- June 23, 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
- July 20, 1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
- August 7, 1940 – World War II: Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
- August 19, 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
- August 20, 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
- September 6, 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
- September 11, 1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
- November 7, 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge’s completion.
- November 9, 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- November 18, 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini’s disastrous invasion of Greece.
- November 25, 1940 – World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
- December 22, 1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
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