1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
- April 7, 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 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 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- May 15, 1940 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
- May 24, 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- May 26, 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- June 16, 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- June 21, 1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
- July 10, 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- July 20, 1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
- July 25, 1940 – General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- August 3, 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
- August 8, 1940 – The “Aufbau Ost” directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
- September 6, 1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
- November 16, 1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
- December 9, 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
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