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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. December 12 (Category: Births), Dionne Warwick, American singer and actress
• 1940. January 5 (Category: Births), Michael O'Donoghue, American screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1940. February 7 (Category: Events), The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
• 1940. March 13 (Category: Births), Christopher Gable, British dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 1998)
• 1940. November 22 (Category: Births), Roy Thomas, American author
• 1940. January 23 (Category: Births), Joe Dowell, American singer
• 1940. September 12 (Category: Births), Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010)
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Max Mosley, British race car driver and engineer
• 1940. July 2 (Category: Births), Kenneth Clarke, English politician
• 1940. October 9 (Category: Births), Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
• 1940. June 14 (Category: Events), World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
• 1940. May 13 (Category: Events), 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.
• 1940. June 18 (Category: Events), Finest Hour speech by Winston Churchill.
• 1940. June 14 (Category: Events), The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
• 1940. October 15 (Category: Births), Tommy Bishop, English rugby player

Calendar for 1940

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