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1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Captain America Comic Book
- Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Becomes The First African-American General
- Hattie Mcdaniel Becomes The First African-American Actor to Win An Academy Award
- Selective Training and Service Act Signed Into Law
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Wins The Election
- An Annular Solar Eclipse Is Observed in The United States
- Leon Trotsky The Russian Revolutionary Is Assassinated in Mexico
The USSR and Finland agree to end the Winter War. More Information for the 1935 Neutrality Act. The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland comes to an end in March . The conflict began in November of 1939when a huge Soviet army attacked the heavily outnumbered Finnish forces. The Finns held off the Red Army through the winter with a strong...
Axis Powers win The Battle Of France and Take control of Paris on June 14th. More Information for the Battle of France. During World War II, Germany began occupying the French capital of Paris in June . Germany had begun its invasion of France during the previous month with French troops being quickly overwhelmed by the German military, despite the...
Britain Creates The Home Guard to act as the first line of defence in case of invasion Great Britain begins food rationing during World War II. More Information and Timeline for UK Food Rationing. 1. At the beginning of World War II Great Britain begins to ration food. Ration books that contained coupons for certain items are distributed to citizen...
More Information for the Captain America Comic The first Captain America comic book was published and went on sale in December with the cover featuring the titular character punching the real life World War II villain and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The first issue originally sold for ten cents and was dated for March 1941 despite being available ear...
More Information and Timeline for Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. 1. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is born in 1877 and joined the United States Army in 1989 after being a volunteer during the Spanish-American War. 2. Davis rose steadily through the ranks of the army and served throughout the world. 3. He was also a teacher of military science at the Tuskegee Insti...
More Information for Hattie McDaniel. 1. In February Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the film "Gone with the Wind." 2. McDaniel began her career in the early 1910s performing in minstrel shows and working as a vocalist for vario...
Selective Training and Service Act signed into law as first peacetime military draft in United States history More Information and Timeline for Selective Training and Service Act 1. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 became United States law on the 16th of September, . This draft had required men between the ages of 21 and 35 years old ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the election and becomes the United States' first third-term president. More Information and Timeline for the Roosevelt Election 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States in 1932 at the height of the Great Depression. 2. FDR used his New Deal programs to help stabilize the US economy and was re-el...
An annular solar eclipse is observed in the United States. More Information and Timeline for US Solar Eclipse. On April 7 an Annular Solar Eclipse is seen for the first time in North America since 1930 and the sun was blocked completely out for 6 to 7 minutes by the moon with a narrow circle of brilliance around it's rim. An annular solar eclipse o...
Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary is assassinated in Mexico More Information and Timeline for the Leon Trotsky 1. Leon Trotsky was born as Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in November of 1879 in Ukraine. 2. Trotsky discovered Marxism in 1896 while in school in Odessa. 3. He was arrested in 1898 for "revolutionary activity," after which he spent nearl...
1940 in U.S. states and territories. States. Alabama. Arizona. Arkansas. California. Colorado. Connecticut. Delaware. Florida. Georgia. Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri. Montana. Nebraska.
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- 1940. The first year of the 1940s was filled with war-related news. In 1940 or late 1939, the Nazis began "Operation T4," the first mass killings of Germans and Austrians with disabilities, most by large-scale poison gas operations.
- 1941. By far the biggest event for Americans in 1941 was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a day that would indeed, as FDR said, live in infamy.
- 1942. In 1942, World War II continued to dominate the news. February 19: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order commanding the relocation of Japanese Americans families from their homes and businesses to internment camps.
- 1943. April 13: The Germans announced that they had discovered 4,400 bodies of Polish officers in a mass grave in Russia's Katyn Forest, the first concrete evidence of the Katyn Massacre of May 1940.
- 1940. April 1, 1940 - The 1940 census indicates a United States population of 132,164,569. This represented an increase of 7.3% since 1930, the lowest rate of increase in the 20th century.
- 1941. March 11, 1941 - The George Washington Carver Museum is dedicated at the Tuskegee Institute with the participation of such luminaries as Henry Ford.
- 1942. February 19, 1942 - Executive order 9066 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confining 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II.
- 1943. February 14, 1943 - The United States encounters its first major defeat in the European theater of World War II at the Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
Historical Events in 1940. Calendar. Home. Events by Year. 1940. Jan uary. Feb ruary. Mar ch. Apr il. May. Jun e. Jul y. Aug ust. Sep tember. Oct ober. Nov ember. Dec ember. Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. Events 1 - 200 of 500. Jan 3 WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV.
Black–Other Days. Local holidays are not listed, holidays on past calendars might not be correct. The year 1940 is a leap year, with 366 days in total. Calendar type: Gregorian calendar.
