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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. June 17 (Category: Events), The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Bobby Rousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940. March 5 (Category: Deaths), Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
• 1940. September 19 (Category: Births), Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher, secretary, and writer (d. 1969)
• 1940. May 5 (Category: Events), World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
• 1940. October 24 (Category: Births), Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1940. November 25 (Category: Births), Jan Jongbloed, Dutch footballer
• 1940. March 4 (Category: Deaths), Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
• 1940. June 17 (Category: Deaths), Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940. August 8 (Category: Events), The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
• 1940. August 20 (Category: Births), Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
• 1940. June 4 (Category: Events), World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
• 1940. September 7 (Category: Births), Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician, 4th President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
• 1940. May 5 (Category: Events), World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.

Calendar for 1940

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