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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1940

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes -  Ship events

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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Events of 1940

(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.)

Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

January

• January 4 - WWII: Axis powers - Luftwaffe General Hermann Goering assumes control of all war industries in Germany.
• January 6 - WWII:Winter War - General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces.
• January 8 - WWII:Winter War - Russian 44th Assault Division destroyed by Finnish forces in Battle of Suomussalmi.
• January 26 - Australia - Brisbane swelters through its hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees.

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February

Feb. 7: Disney film 2: Pinocchio.

• February 1 - WWII: Winter War - Russian forces launch major assault on Finnish troops which occupy the Karelian Isthmus.
• February 7 - RKO releases Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.
• February 16 - WWII: In the Altmark Incident British destroyer Cossack pursues German tanker Altmark into Jøssingfjord in southwestern Norway.

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March

• March 2 - Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the short Elmer's Candid Camera.
• March 3 - In Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of Norrskenflamman newspaper of Swedish communists - 5 dead.
• March 5- Members of Soviet politburo: Stalin, Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria, signed an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs. The action is known as the Katyn massacre.
• March 12 - Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War. Finns, along with the world at large, were shocked by the harsh terms.
• March 18 - WWII: Axis powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• March 21 Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France. He is replaced by Paul Reynaud.
• March 23 - The Pakistan Resolution is rallied by the All-India Muslim League: Muslims from every corner of India meet up around Iqbal Park, Lahore, now in modern-day Pakistan.

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April

• April 5 - Neville Chamberlain, in what will prove to be a tragic lapse of judgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has "missed the bus".
• April 7 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• April 9 - WWII: Germany invades Denmark and Norway in operation Weserübung. The British campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced.
• April 12 - The Faroe Islands were occupied by British troops following the invasion of Denmark by Nazi Germany. This action was taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, which would have had very grave consequences for the course of the Battle of the Atlantic.
• April 15 - Opening day at Jamaica Racetrack features the use of pari-mutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York state. Other NY tracks follow suit later in 1940.
• April 23 - Rhythm Night Club burns in Natchez, Mississippi: 198 dead.

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May

• May 10 - WWII:
  • Battle of France begins - German forces invade Low Countries.
  • Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
  • With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 13
  • Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
  • WWII: German armies open 60-mile wide breach in Maginot Line at Sedan.
• May 14
  • Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her government flee to London; Rotterdam subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe - 980 killed, 20,000 buildings destroyed.
  • Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force - the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
• May 15
  • WWII: Dutch army surrenders.
  • McDonald's founded. Dick and Mac McDonald open their first restaurant in San Bernardino, California, featuring a broad menu including barbecue. Eight years later, they would streamline production to focus on hamburgers only.
• May 16 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
• May 17 - Brussels falls to German forces; Belgian government flees to Ostend.
• May 18 - Marshal Henri Petain named vice-premier of France.
• May 19 - General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all French forces.
• May 20 - WWII: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. Holocaust: concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau opens in Poland.
• May 22 - WWII: British Parliament passes Emergency Powers Act giving the government full control over all persons and property.
• May 26 - WWII: Dunkirk evacuation of British Expeditionary Force starts.
• May 28
  • WWII: Belgium army surrenders.
  • Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to, "... prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."

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June

• June 3 - Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.
• June 4
  • Dunkirk evacuation ends - British forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
  • Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches...on the landing grounds...in the fields and the streets...We shall never surrender."
• June 9 - WWII: The British Commandos are created.
• June 10 - WWII
  • Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
  • Canada declares war on Italy.
  • Norway surrenders to German forces.
  • French government flees to Tours.
• June 12 - WWII: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
• June 13 - WWII: Paris is declared an open city.
• June 14 - WWII:
  • French government flees to Bordeaux.
  • Paris falls under German occupation.
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %.
  • Holocaust: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• June 15 - WWII: Verdun falls to German forces.
• June 17
  • Philippe Petain becomes Prime Minister of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.
  • Soviet Army enters Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia.
  • Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
  • Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks British ship RMS Lancastria, that was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France. Death toll is over 2500. Wartime censorship prevents the story going public.
• June 18
  • Winston Churchill speaks to the House of Commons: "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."
  • General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts from London, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."
• June 21 - WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign armistice at Compiegne in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.
• June 23 - WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.[1]
• June 24
  • U.S. politics: Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.
  • WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms with Italy.
• June 28 - General Charles DeGaulle is officially recognized by Britain as "Leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be."
• June 30 - WWII: German forces land in Guernsey marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.

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Location within France For the battleship, see Dunkerque Dunkirk (French: Dunkerque; Dutch: Duinkerke; German: Dünkirchen) is a harbour city and a commune in the northernmost part of France, in the département of Nord, 10 km from the Belgian border. ... “Churchill” redirects here. ... Type Lower House Speaker of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Commons Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated) since October 23, 2000 Harriet Harman, QC, (Labour) since June 28, 2007 Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Theresa May, PC, (Conservative) since December 6, 2005 Members 646 Political groups... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 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The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... Wendell L. Willkie Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a lawyer in the United States and the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... 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Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... As part of the Atlantic Wall, between 1940 and 1945 the occupying German forces and the Organisation Todt constructed fortifications round the coasts of the Channel Islands such as this observation tower at Les Landes, Jersey The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the Military occupation of the Channel...

July

On July 27 Bugs Bunny was introduced to the public

• July 3 - WWII: British naval units sink or seize ships of the French fleet anchored in the Algerian ports of Oran and Mers-el-Kebir. The following day, Vichy France breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.
• July 7 - British musician Ringo Starr is born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, England.
• July 10 - WWII: Vichy France begins with a constitutional law where only 80 members of the parliament voted against.
• July 15 - U.S. politics: Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.
• July 19 - WWII: Adolf Hitler makes peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag. Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.
• July 21 - Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR and Lithuanian SSR are proclaimed.
• July 27 - A Wild Hare is released, introducing Bugs Bunny.

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