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Year 1940

Year 1940 started Seventy-Nine years ago. This leap year started on Monday and ended on Tuesday containing 366 days. Knowing the year starting date and the number of days, we found Five same calendars between 1900 and 2050. These are: 1912 | 1940 | 1968 | 1996 | 2024 | . The analyzed 1940. year had 2 days landing on Friday the 13th. On bottom of this page, you can find calendar for 1940. year.

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Some random events that occurred in year 1940

We found 814 events for year 1940., but here only few are listed. Select month, and there you can see the list without filtering.
• 1940. July 15 (Category: Deaths), Robert Wadlow, American tallest person in the world (b. 1918)
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Vladimir Cosma, Romanian composer
• 1940. April 8 (Category: Births), John Havlicek, American basketball player
• 1940. October 19 (Category: Births), Larry Chance, American singer (Larry Chance and the Earls)
• 1940. October 21 (Category: Births), Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player (Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three)
• 1940. July 19 (Category: Events), World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
• 1940. October 18 (Category: Births), Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1940. February 29 (Category: Events), For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
• 1940. October 5 (Category: Deaths), Ballington Booth, English-American co-founder of the Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
• 1940. December 12 (Category: Births), Sharad Pawar, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1940. February 29 (Category: Births), Gopichand Hinduja, President, Hinduja Group of Companies
• 1940. November 27 (Category: Events), 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.
• 1940. March 8 (Category: Births), Susan Clark, Canadian actress
• 1940. August 30 (Category: Deaths), J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1940. May 1 (Category: Events), The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.

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