1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 23, 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
- May 5, 1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
- May 9, 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
- May 10, 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- May 14, 1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
- May 17, 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
- May 29, 1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- June 10, 1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy’s actions with his “Stab in the Back” speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
- June 17, 1940 – World War II: the British Army’s 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
- July 3, 1940 – World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
- July 31, 1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
- August 30, 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- September 12, 1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
- October 1, 1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
- November 11, 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- November 12, 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
- 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.
- November 27, 1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania’s aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
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