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1940 Calendar

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•  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.

•  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