1940 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1940?
- January 29, 1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
- February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- May 10, 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
- May 20, 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- May 29, 1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- June 14, 1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- June 17, 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
- June 18, 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
- June 21, 1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
- June 28, 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- July 31, 1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
- 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.
- October 9, 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
- October 25, 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 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.
- November 22, 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
- November 27, 1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania’s aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
- December 29, 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
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