1940 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

1940 Calendar

January
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
2526272829  
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    

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1940 Historical Event(s)

February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
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 26, 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
June 14, 1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
June 17, 1940 – World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
September 6, 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
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 30, 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Who Were Born On 1940?

January 5, 1940 – Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
January 27, 1940 – Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
March 1, 1940 – David Broome, Welsh showjumper
March 7, 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
April 13, 1940 – Max Mosley, British racing driver, engineer and former president of the FIA
July 23, 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (d. 2010)
July 24, 1940 – Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
September 2, 1940 – Jimmy Clanton, American singer
October 4, 1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
November 13, 1940 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician