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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. May 28 (Category: Births), Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist (d. 2012)
• 1940. February 22 (Category: Births), Billy Name, American photographer
• 1940. October 29 (Category: Births), Connie Mack III, American politician
• 1940. January 13 (Category: Births), Edmund White, American author
• 1940. January 5 (Category: Events), FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
• 1940. October 25 (Category: Events), Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1940. May 27 (Category: Events), World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. Two survive.
• 1940. March 31 (Category: Births), Patrick Leahy, American politician
• 1940. May 28 (Category: Births), Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue
• 1940. May 5 (Category: Events), World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
• 1940. August 31 (Category: Events), Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
• 1940. November 12 (Category: Events), World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France forces.
• 1940. December 26 (Category: Births), Ray Sadecki, American baseball player
• 1940. October 18 (Category: Births), Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
• 1940. June 23 (Category: Births), Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish singer and bassist (The Beatles) (d. 1962)

Calendar for 1940

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