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Year 1940

Year 1940 started Seventy-Eight 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. February 28 (Category: Births), Joe South, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1940. August 13 (Category: Births), Bill Musselman, American basketball coach (d. 2000)
• 1940. February 10 (Category: Births), Kenny Rankin, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1940. May 6 (Category: Events), John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
• 1940. May 11 (Category: Deaths), Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Physician (b. 1880)
• 1940. August 20 (Category: Events), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
• 1940. September 8 (Category: Births), Quentin L. Cook, American religious leader, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• 1940. June 4 (Category: Births), Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
• 1940. January 10 (Category: Births), Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
• 1940. February 20 (Category: Births), John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, former chief executive at BP
• 1940. March 28 (Category: Births), Yves Bérubé, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1940. August 31 (Category: Births), Roger Newman, English-American actor and writer (d. 2010)
• 1940. September 6 (Category: Births), Elizabeth Murray, American painter (d. 2007)
• 1940. October 19 (Category: Births), Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor
• 1940. September 14 (Category: Births), Jacques Godin, Canadian actor

Calendar for 1940

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