April 1940.
Since April 1940 passed approximately Nine Hundred and Ninety-Eight months (998.3). This April started with Monday (14. week) and ended with Tuesday (18. week). This April had 30 days and 4 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for April 1940.
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Events occurred in April 1940
We found 56 events occured in April month in 1940.
• 1940. April 1 (Category: Births), Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
• 1940. April 2 (Category: Births), Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater
• 1940. April 2 (Category: Births), Mike Hailwood, British motorcycle racer (d. 1981)
• 1940. April 2 (Category: Births), Penelope Keith, English actress
• 1940. April 4 (Category: Births), Richard Attwood, British race car driver
• 1940. April 4 (Category: Births), Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1940. April 4 (Category: Deaths), Gustav Goßler, German rower (b. 1879)
• 1940. April 5 (Category: Births), Gilles Proulx, Canadian historian, radio and television host
• 1940. April 5 (Category: Births), Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter
• 1940. April 6 (Category: Births), Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat
• 1940. April 6 (Category: Births), Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
• 1940. April 7 (Category: Events), Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 1940. April 8 (Category: Births), John Havlicek, American basketball player
• 1940. April 9 (Category: Births), Jim Roberts, Canadian hockey player
• 1940. April 9 (Category: Deaths), Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)
• 1940. April 9 (Category: Events), Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
• 1940. April 9 (Category: Events), World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• 1940. April 10 (Category: Births), Gloria Hunniford, Irish television and radio presenter
• 1940. April 10 (Category: Events), Katyn massacre Mass execution of 40 thousands Polish officers and intelligentsia approved and signed by USSR leader Joseph Stalin
• 1940. April 12 (Category: Births), Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
• 1940. April 12 (Category: Births), John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate.
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Max Mosley, British race car driver and engineer
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Mike Beuttler, British race car driver (d. 1988)
• 1940. April 13 (Category: Births), Vladimir Cosma, Romanian composer
• 1940. April 14 (Category: Events), World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Jeffrey Archer, British author
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Robert Lacroix, French-Canadian professor
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Robert Walker Jr., American actor
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Willie Davis, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Woodie Fryman, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Births), Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
• 1940. April 15 (Category: Events), The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1940. April 16 (Category: Births), Benoît Bouchard, Canadian politician
• 1940. April 16 (Category: Births), Margrethe II of Denmark
• 1940. April 17 (Category: Births), Anja Silja, German soprano
• 1940. April 17 (Category: Births), Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
• 1940. April 17 (Category: Births), John McCririck, English horse racing pundit
• 1940. April 18 (Category: Births), Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1940. April 18 (Category: Births), Mike Vickers, British musician and composer (Manfred Mann)
• 1940. April 19 (Category: Births), Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1940. April 19 (Category: Births), Genya Ravan, American singer(Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
• 1940. April 20 (Category: Births), James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1940. April 21 (Category: Births), Jacques Caron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1940. April 23 (Category: Births), Dale Houston, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1940. April 23 (Category: Births), Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
• 1940. April 23 (Category: Events), The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
• 1940. April 24 (Category: Births), Sue Grafton, American author
• 1940. April 24 (Category: Births), Trevor Kent, Australian theatre and television actor (d. 1989)
• 1940. April 25 (Category: Births), Al Pacino, American actor
• 1940. April 25 (Category: Births), Jochen Borchert, German politician
• 1940. April 26 (Category: Births), Cliff Watson, English rugby player
• 1940. April 26 (Category: Births), Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
• 1940. April 26 (Category: Deaths), Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1940. April 30 (Category: Births), Burt Young, American actor
Calendar April 1940.
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