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December 1940. December 23 (New York City, New York) — Eddie August Schneider dies in crash when his plane is clipped by a navy bomber at Floyd Bennett Field. December 29-30 (London, England) — The Luftwaffe makes a devastating attack on London, making extensive use of incendiary weapons. 1940 First Flights.
May 24, 2019 · As the 1940s drew to a close, turbine technology was central to one of the decade’s biggest aviation stories – the maiden flight of the world’s first jet airliner on 27 July 1949. But the ...
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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1940: Introduction 1940 in aviation 1940 in aviation; Events January February March April May June July August September October November December
- World War II
- The Invention of The Jeep
- Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
- Anne Frank and Her Family Went Into Hiding
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- The First Computer Built
- Franklin D Roosevelt Dies
- Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
- Bikinis Were Introduced
- Big Bang Theory
Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. An estimated 45 to 80 million people were killed, and 6 million Jews were murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical Holocaust. This war was among the deadliest international conflic...
Some of us love big and powerful cars well let’s go down memory lane and see the history of this awesome Jeep car. The jeep was used in World War II in 1940, it was used for the general purpose the only two companies that provided this car was The American Bantam and Willys Overland. The jeep was not only used on the battlefield but was also used a...
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base in Hawaii, this base was surprisingly attacked by the Japanese force in 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighters descended on the base and destroyed American naval vessels, battleships, and airplanes. Many Americans died including civilians and many were wounded. After this attack President Franklin. D. Roosevelt waged w...
Anne frank was a young Jewish girl her family moved to the Netherlands from Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power making the life of Jews difficult. Frank and her family went into hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German. Anne had a diary during her time of hiding first published in 1947 has been translat...
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German, the Warsaw uprising began in August 1944 under Antoni Chrusciel general, they were supported by the National Armed forces and the communist people’s army, and only a quarter of the people had access to weapons fighting against the German soldiers equipped with air forces and artillery. This...
The ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator computer was built from 1943 to 1945 it’s the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed with ought been slowed down with any mechanical parts. The ENIAC’s advancement was instrumental in sparking a revolution in computer science and electrical engineering. The computer traces back to World War I...
Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms, he is the 32ndpresident of the United States. His third and fourth term was dominated by foreign policy concerns, and this is when the U.S. became part of World War II. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt directed the organization of the Nation’s manpower and reso...
Once Germany unconditionally surrendered to World War II, Adolf Hitlercommits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head at his underground bunker in Berlin. He was with his wife Eva Braun when committing suicide, they are a lot of speculation as to why Hitler committed suicide but one of them was death before dishonor...
French designer Louis Reard unveils a bold two-piece swimsuit at Piscine Molitor a popular swimming pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion which was named bikini. Many Americans were scandalized by the new skimpy garment, the bikini became a summer staple for women in the 1960s. This swimsuit has been a battleground for the wom...
Do you love the comedy series Big Bang theory, well the big bang theory is the leading explanation of how the universe began. The Big Bang Theory is the most accepted cosmological model explaining the origin and evolution of the universe. Scientists accepted this theory, the theory states that the universe was initially contained in a dense hot, an...
1940 Major News Events in History. The Battle of Dunkirk was a huge military loss for the Allies However, the evacuation, or "Miracle of Dunkirk" was a success. Great Britain begins food rationing during World War II. Selective Training and Service Act signed into law as first peacetime military draft in United States history.
September 28, 1924 – The first round-the-world flight was completed in Seattle, Washington by three Douglas World Cruisers of the US Army Air Service. May 20-21, 1927 – the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic by Charles A. Lindbergh, in the ‘Spirit of St Louis’..
Jun 13, 2013 · In 1987, the historian Michael S. Sherry published a groundbreaking and controversial book titled The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (Yale UP, 1987). Sherry in effect reinterpreted the history of American air power in a way that was more contextually based and fiercely critical. The result was not to every military historian’s liking because it deviated so ...
