July 1940.
Since July 1940 passed approximately One Thousand and One months (1,000.9). This July started with Monday (27. week) and ended with Wednesday (31. week). This July had 31 days and 4 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for July 1940.
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Events occurred in July 1940
We found 54 events occured in July month in 1940.
• 1940. July 2 (Category: Births), Kenneth Clarke, English politician
• 1940. July 2 (Category: Events), Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
• 1940. July 3 (Category: Births), César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1940. July 3 (Category: Births), Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter
• 1940. July 3 (Category: Births), Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland
• 1940. July 3 (Category: Births), Lamar Alexander, American politician
• 1940. July 3 (Category: Events), World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
• 1940. July 4 (Category: Births), Karolyn Grimes, American actress
• 1940. July 5 (Category: Births), Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
• 1940. July 5 (Category: Events), World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
• 1940. July 6 (Category: Births), Jeannie Seely, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1940. July 6 (Category: Births), Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh politician, 1st President of Kazakhstan
• 1940. July 7 (Category: Births), Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (The Beatles and Plastic Ono Band)
• 1940. July 8 (Category: Births), Ben Chapman, English politician and civil servant
• 1940. July 9 (Category: Births), Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American theorist and psychoanalyst (d. 2010)
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Births), Brian Priestley, English pianist and arranger
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Births), Helen Donath, American soprano
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Births), Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, English economist and politician
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Births), Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Events), World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1940. July 10 (Category: Events), World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
• 1940. July 11 (Category: Births), Yvon Charbonneau, Canadian politician
• 1940. July 11 (Category: Events), World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1940. July 13 (Category: Births), Patrick Stewart, English actor
• 1940. July 14 (Category: Births), Susan Howatch, English novelist
• 1940. July 15 (Category: Births), Ronald Gene Simmons, American murderer (d. 1990)
• 1940. July 15 (Category: Deaths), Donald Calthrop, English actor (b. 1888)
• 1940. July 15 (Category: Deaths), Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
• 1940. July 15 (Category: Deaths), Robert Wadlow, American tallest person in the world (b. 1918)
• 1940. July 17 (Category: Births), Tim Brooke-Taylor, English actor
• 1940. July 18 (Category: Births), James Brolin, American actor
• 1940. July 18 (Category: Births), Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
• 1940. July 19 (Category: Births), Dennis Cole, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1940. July 19 (Category: Events), World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
• 1940. July 19 (Category: Events), World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
• 1940. July 20 (Category: Events), California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
• 1940. July 20 (Category: Events), Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
• 1940. July 22 (Category: Births), Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host
• 1940. July 22 (Category: Births), Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian
• 1940. July 22 (Category: Deaths), Albert Young, American welterweight boxer (b. 1877)
• 1940. July 24 (Category: Births), Dan Hedaya, American actor
• 1940. July 24 (Category: Births), Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
• 1940. July 25 (Category: Events), General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Bobby Rousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher, secretary, and writer (d. 1969)
• 1940. July 26 (Category: Births), Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer, actor, and composer
• 1940. July 27 (Category: Births), Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
• 1940. July 27 (Category: Events), The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
• 1940. July 28 (Category: Births), Philip Proctor, American voice actor
• 1940. July 31 (Category: Births), Carol J. Clover, American academic and author
• 1940. July 31 (Category: Births), Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor, and game show host
• 1940. July 31 (Category: Deaths), Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
• 1940. July 31 (Category: Events), A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
Calendar July 1940.
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