1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- January 7, 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 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 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- May 9, 1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
- May 13, 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
- May 14, 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- May 28, 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- June 21, 1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- July 2, 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
- 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 27, 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
- August 30, 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- October 4, 1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
- October 16, 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- November 9, 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
- November 11, 1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- November 23, 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- December 23, 1940 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
- 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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