1940 Calendar
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1940 Historical Event(s)
- 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.
- February 28, 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
- May 14, 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- May 15, 1940 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
- August 20, 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
- September 7, 1940 – World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
- September 27, 1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- October 14, 1940 – Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
- October 16, 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
Who Were Born On 1940?
- March 26, 1940 – Nancy Pelosi, American politician
- May 17, 1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
- May 20, 1940 – Shorty Long, American musician (d. 1969)
- May 29, 1940 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician
- July 10, 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
- August 20, 1940 – Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer
- September 14, 1940 – Jacques Godin, Canadian film and television actor
- October 6, 1940 – Ellen Travolta, American actress
- December 5, 1940 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
- December 28, 1940 – Don Francisco, Chilean television host