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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. October 27 (Category: Births), Maxine Hong Kingston, American author
• 1940. January 4 (Category: Deaths), Flora Finch, English-American actress (b. 1867)
• 1940. June 3 (Category: Events), World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
• 1940. October 29 (Category: Births), Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
• 1940. November 4 (Category: Deaths), Arthur Rostron, English captain (b. 1869)
• 1940. May 15 (Category: Events), McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
• 1940. August 21 (Category: Births), Endre Szemerédi, Hungarian mathematician
• 1940. November 21 (Category: Births), Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican comedian and television host (d. 2010)
• 1940. February 10 (Category: Births), Kenny Rankin, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1940. September 19 (Category: Events), Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
• 1940. May 7 (Category: Births), Vasilis N. Triantafillidis, Greek comedian and actor
• 1940. September 13 (Category: Births), Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940. August 27 (Category: Births), Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (Last Exit) (d. 1994)
• 1940. October 19 (Category: Births), Michael Gambon, Irish-English actor
• 1940. June 30 (Category: Births), Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)

Calendar for 1940

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