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Year 1940

Year 1940 started Eigthy 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. January 25 (Category: Deaths), Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
• 1940. March 1 (Category: Deaths), Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1940. October 4 (Category: Births), Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
• 1940. October 15 (Category: Events), The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
• 1940. January 29 (Category: Events), Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
• 1940. January 21 (Category: Deaths), John Duha, American gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1940. February 10 (Category: Births), Mary Rand, English athlete
• 1940. May 1 (Category: Births), Yury Yershov, Russian mathematician
• 1940. April 4 (Category: Births), Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1940. November 25 (Category: Births), Joe Gibbs, American football coach
• 1940. March 30 (Category: Births), Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
• 1940. May 26 (Category: Births), Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French-Canadian politician
• 1940. November 30 (Category: Events), Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1940. May 14 (Category: Births), Troy Shondell, American singer-songwriter
• 1940. April 16 (Category: Births), Margrethe II of Denmark

Calendar for 1940

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