1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- January 8, 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
- April 15, 1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- May 5, 1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
- 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 14, 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- May 15, 1940 – USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
- June 3, 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
- June 14, 1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- June 16, 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- June 17, 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- July 10, 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- August 19, 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
- September 9, 1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- September 12, 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
- October 16, 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- November 12, 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
- November 16, 1940 – World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
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