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Year 1940

Year 1940 started Eigthy-Three 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 15 (Category: Events), An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
• 1940. February 27 (Category: Births), Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
• 1940. February 29 (Category: Births), Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
• 1940. May 19 (Category: Deaths), Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
• 1940. December 29 (Category: Events), World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
• 1940. October 7 (Category: Births), Bruce Vento, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1940. July 24 (Category: Births), Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
• 1940. June 18 (Category: Events), Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1940. August 10 (Category: Births), Sid Waddell, English sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 1940. January 22 (Category: Births), John Hurt, English actor
• 1940. August 30 (Category: Deaths), J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1940. January 17 (Category: Births), Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
• 1940. May 15 (Category: Deaths), Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)
• 1940. November 29 (Category: Births), Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (d. 2007)
• 1940. June 10 (Category: Events), World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.

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