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1940 Calendar

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•  February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  May 5, 1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
•  May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
•  May 13, 1940 – World War II: Germany’s conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” speech to the House of Commons.
•  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 26, 1940 – World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
•  October 4, 1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
•  October 25, 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
•  December 29, 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.

•  January 22, 1940 – George Seifert, American football coach
•  March 4, 1940 – Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
•  March 12, 1940 – Joe Unger, American actor
•  March 25, 1940 – Anita Bryant, American singer
•  April 17, 1940 – Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
•  May 15, 1940 – Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
•  May 20, 1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
•  June 20, 1940 – John Mahoney, English actor
•  July 3, 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician
•  August 7, 1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician