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Year 1940

Year 1940 started Seventy-Seven 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. August 2 (Category: Births), Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer
• 1940. March 24 (Category: Births), Don Jardine, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1940. March 30 (Category: Births), Hans Ragnemalm, Swedish professor and judge
• 1940. March 12 (Category: Births), M. A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer (Suomen Talvisota 1939–1940)
• 1940. November 1 (Category: Births), Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India
• 1940. August 30 (Category: Deaths), J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1940. May 19 (Category: Births), Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1940. August 20 (Category: Events), In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
• 1940. April 24 (Category: Births), Trevor Kent, Australian theatre and television actor (d. 1989)
• 1940. February 1 (Category: Births), Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
• 1940. June 23 (Category: Births), Adam Faith, English singer, actor, and journalist (d. 2003)
• 1940. October 29 (Category: Births), Galen Weston, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• 1940. June 17 (Category: Events), The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1940. October 24 (Category: Births), Martin Campbell, New Zealand director
• 1940. September 6 (Category: Births), Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter, and actress

Calendar for 1940

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