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Events on the year of 1940 in history

Events
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03 Jan 1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City, New Jersey consolidates with WBIL andWOV as "new" WOV
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05 Jan 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
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05 Jan 1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
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07 Jan 1940 Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
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08 Jan 1940 World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
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09 Jan 1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
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11 Jan 1940 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
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14 Jan 1940 NFL Pro Bowl Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
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14 Jan 1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
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15 Jan 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
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21 Jan 1940 Foreign correspondents in the Netherlands under censorship
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22 Jan 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
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23 Jan 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
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25 Jan 1940 Nazi decrees the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
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26 Jan 1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
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27 Jan 1940 -17
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29 Jan 1940 Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.
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30 Jan 1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
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30 Jan 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
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30 Jan 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win
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31 Jan 1940 C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children" premieres in New York City NY
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01 Feb 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
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05 Feb 1940 Gen Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch Supreme Commander
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05 Feb 1940 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
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07 Feb 1940 British railroads nationalized
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07 Feb 1940 The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
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08 Feb 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
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09 Feb 1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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10 Feb 1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
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10 Feb 1940 Tom and Jerry created by Hanna and Barbera debut by MGM
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10 Feb 1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
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10 Feb 1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
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10 Feb 1940 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
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13 Feb 1940 Bradman scores 209 in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA
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14 Feb 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
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16 Feb 1940 World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
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16 Feb 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
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17 Feb 1940 Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for South Africa vs West Australia
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17 Feb 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
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20 Feb 1940 Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
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22 Feb 1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
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22 Feb 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
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23 Feb 1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
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23 Feb 1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released
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24 Feb 1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
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25 Feb 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadiens)
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26 Feb 1940 US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York
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26 Feb 1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY
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27 Feb 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
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28 Feb 1940 1st televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University, 50-37)
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28 Feb 1940 Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
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28 Feb 1940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37)
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28 Feb 1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
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28 Feb 1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
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29 Feb 1940 "Gone with the Wind, " wins 8 Oscars
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29 Feb 1940 Frederic from G&S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
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29 Feb 1940 In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
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29 Feb 1940 Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
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29 Feb 1940 For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
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29 Feb 1940 "Gone with the Wind" wins 8 Oscars
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29 Feb 1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)
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29 Feb 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
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01 Mar 1940 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind, " R Donat and V Leigh win
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02 Mar 1940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, New York City
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02 Mar 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
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03 Mar 1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
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03 Mar 1940 Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
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05 Mar 1940 Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
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06 Mar 1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York City
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07 Mar 1940 Montreal Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
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07 Mar 1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
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10 Mar 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, New York NY, I Pagliacci
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12 Mar 1940 Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
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12 Mar 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
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13 Mar 1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
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13 Mar 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
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14 Mar 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
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16 Mar 1940 First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
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16 Mar 1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
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18 Mar 1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
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18 Mar 1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
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19 Mar 1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
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19 Mar 1940 French government of Daladier, falls
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20 Mar 1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
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23 Mar 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
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23 Mar 1940 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
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23 Mar 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
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26 Mar 1940 Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City
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27 Mar 1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
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29 Mar 1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
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30 Mar 1940 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
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30 Mar 1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana University beats Kansas 60-42
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31 Mar 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
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07 Apr 1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
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07 Apr 1940 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280
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07 Apr 1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
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08 Apr 1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
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09 Apr 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
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09 Apr 1940 Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
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09 Apr 1940 World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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10 Apr 1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
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12 Apr 1940 NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
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12 Apr 1940 Italy annexes Albania
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13 Apr 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
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13 Apr 1940 Cornelious Warmerdam becomes the 1st man to pole vault 15 feet, Berkeley CA
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13 Apr 1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
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13 Apr 1940 Stanley Cup New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
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14 Apr 1940 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
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14 Apr 1940 Allied troops land in Norway
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14 Apr 1940 RCA demonstrates its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
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15 Apr 1940 The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
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15 Apr 1940 British troops land at Narvik Norway
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16 Apr 1940 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
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16 Apr 1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
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16 Apr 1940 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0
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16 Apr 1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht", premieres in Rio de Janeiro
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19 Apr 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
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19 Apr 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
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19 Apr 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
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20 Apr 1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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21 Apr 1940 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It, " on CBS Radio
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21 Apr 1940 Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
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22 Apr 1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
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23 Apr 1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez, Mississippi)
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23 Apr 1940 The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
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23 Apr 1940 New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
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25 Apr 1940 Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
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27 Apr 1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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28 Apr 1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
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28 Apr 1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
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29 Apr 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
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29 Apr 1940 Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
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29 Apr 1940 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night", premieres in NYC
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30 Apr 1940 Brooklyn Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0
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01 May 1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
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01 May 1940 The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
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01 May 1940 The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
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04 May 1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis and communists arrested in the Netherlands
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04 May 1940 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
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05 May 1940 Norwegian government in exile forms in London
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05 May 1940 World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
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05 May 1940 World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
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06 May 1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
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06 May 1940 John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
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07 May 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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07 May 1940 The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
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09 May 1940 World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
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10 May 1940 Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
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10 May 1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
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10 May 1940 World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
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10 May 1940 World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
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10 May 1940 World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
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10 May 1940 World War II: German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin.
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10 May 1940 World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
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10 May 1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
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10 May 1940 Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
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10 May 1940 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
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10 May 1940 French marines stationed on Aruba
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10 May 1940 French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
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10 May 1940 Nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
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11 May 1940 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6
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11 May 1940 New York World's Fair reopens
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12 May 1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten
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12 May 1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
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12 May 1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River
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13 May 1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
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13 May 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
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13 May 1940 British bomb factory at Breda
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13 May 1940 Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
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13 May 1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
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13 May 1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
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14 May 1940 The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.
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14 May 1940 World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
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14 May 1940 World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
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14 May 1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England
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14 May 1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx homerun goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
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14 May 1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
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14 May 1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
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14 May 1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
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15 May 1940 1st nylon stockings sold in US
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15 May 1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
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15 May 1940 World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
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15 May 1940 USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
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15 May 1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
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15 May 1940 German armour division moves into Northern France
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15 May 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders
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15 May 1940 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
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15 May 1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
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15 May 1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris France
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16 May 1940 Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers
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16 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
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17 May 1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
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17 May 1940 World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
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17 May 1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
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17 May 1940 Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
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18 May 1940 German troops conquer Brussels
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19 May 1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
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19 May 1940 French counter attack at P
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20 May 1940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
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20 May 1940 The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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20 May 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
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20 May 1940 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
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20 May 1940 Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
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20 May 1940 Trailing 7-1 in the 9th to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia wins 8-7
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21 May 1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
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21 May 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
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21 May 1940 Reynaud forms French Government
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22 May 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis
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22 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris
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23 May 1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
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24 May 1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
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24 May 1940 New York Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds
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24 May 1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
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24 May 1940 Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
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24 May 1940 1st night game at New York's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
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24 May 1940 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
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24 May 1940 Dutch army demobilizes
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24 May 1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
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24 May 1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
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25 May 1940 World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
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25 May 1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
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25 May 1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens
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26 May 1940 World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
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26 May 1940 World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
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26 May 1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
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27 May 1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
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27 May 1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
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28 May 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
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28 May 1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
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28 May 1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
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28 May 1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
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28 May 1940 Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premieres in NYC
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29 May 1940 The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
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29 May 1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 seconds)
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29 May 1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich Commissioner of Hague Netherlands
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29 May 1940 In WWII, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
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31 May 1940 General Major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
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31 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies to Paris
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01 Jun 1940 Coffee and tea rationed in Holland
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01 Jun 1940 General Major Bernard Montgomery returns to London
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01 Jun 1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
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02 Jun 1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
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03 Jun 1940 Last British / French troop leave Dunkirk
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03 Jun 1940 World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
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03 Jun 1940 World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
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03 Jun 1940 Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
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04 Jun 1940 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
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04 Jun 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
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04 Jun 1940 German forces enter Paris
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04 Jun 1940 Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
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04 Jun 1940 World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
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05 Jun 1940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio
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05 Jun 1940 American Negro Theater organizes
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05 Jun 1940 Battle of France begins in WWII
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05 Jun 1940 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
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05 Jun 1940 General De Gaulle becomes under Minister of Defense
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05 Jun 1940 Gov of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
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05 Jun 1940 Netherlands rations petroleum
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05 Jun 1940 World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
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07 Jun 1940 British / French troops evacuate Narvik
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07 Jun 1940 King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
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08 Jun 1940 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
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08 Jun 1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
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08 Jun 1940 Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
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08 Jun 1940 World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
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09 Jun 1940 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury Golf Club - Ohio
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09 Jun 1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WWII
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10 Jun 1940 French government moves to Bordeaux
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10 Jun 1940 German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
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10 Jun 1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
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10 Jun 1940 Norway surrenders to Nazis
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
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10 Jun 1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
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11 Jun 1940 Italy declares war on allies / raids Malta
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11 Jun 1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
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12 Jun 1940 World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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13 Jun 1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
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14 Jun 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
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14 Jun 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
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14 Jun 1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
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14 Jun 1940 The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
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14 Jun 1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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14 Jun 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
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15 Jun 1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
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15 Jun 1940 Bread and flour rationed in Holland
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15 Jun 1940 France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
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15 Jun 1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
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15 Jun 1940 World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
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15 Jun 1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
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16 Jun 1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
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16 Jun 1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
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16 Jun 1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
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17 Jun 1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
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17 Jun 1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
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17 Jun 1940 USSR occupies Estonia
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17 Jun 1940 World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
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17 Jun 1940 World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
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17 Jun 1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
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17 Jun 1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
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18 Jun 1940 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy Nazi occupiers
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18 Jun 1940 German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs and chickens
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18 Jun 1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
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18 Jun 1940 Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
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18 Jun 1940 "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
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18 Jun 1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations
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19 Jun 1940 "Brenda Starr, " 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
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19 Jun 1940 German 7th Armour division under General Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg
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20 Jun 1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Jun 1940 World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
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21 Jun 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General / Council of State
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21 Jun 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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22 Jun 1940 SS rounds up 31 German / Polish / Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
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22 Jun 1940 France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
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22 Jun 1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
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23 Jun 1940 Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
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23 Jun 1940 RAF bombs Schiphol
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23 Jun 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
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24 Jun 1940 World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
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24 Jun 1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
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25 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
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25 Jun 1940 World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
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26 Jun 1940 End of the USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6 / 27
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26 Jun 1940 World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
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27 Jun 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
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27 Jun 1940 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar
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28 Jun 1940 "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
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28 Jun 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
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28 Jun 1940 "Quiz Kids?" premiers on radio
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28 Jun 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
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29 Jun 1940 Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
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29 Jun 1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
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29 Jun 1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
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30 Jun 1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
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30 Jun 1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
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30 Jun 1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
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01 Jul 1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
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02 Jul 1940 Dutch Prime Minister Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
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02 Jul 1940 Hitler orders invasion of England
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02 Jul 1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
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02 Jul 1940 Prime Minister Churchill meets General Major B Montgomery
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02 Jul 1940 Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
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03 Jul 1940 ARP-leader / ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
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03 Jul 1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
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03 Jul 1940 German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
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03 Jul 1940 World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands 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.
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04 Jul 1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
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04 Jul 1940 German occupiers forbids anti-Nazis speeches
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05 Jul 1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France
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05 Jul 1940 World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
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06 Jul 1940 Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
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09 Jul 1940 German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
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09 Jul 1940 RAF bombs Germany
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10 Jul 1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
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10 Jul 1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal
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10 Jul 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
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10 Jul 1940 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).
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11 Jul 1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay
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11 Jul 1940 World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
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14 Jul 1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
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14 Jul 1940 Lithuania becomes the Lithuanian SSR
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15 Jul 1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Illinois
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15 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
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18 Jul 1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Connecticut
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18 Jul 1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
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18 Jul 1940 Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
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19 Jul 1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
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19 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
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19 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands forbid anti-Nazi films
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19 Jul 1940 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.
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19 Jul 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II, that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.
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19 Jul 1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
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20 Jul 1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in the Netherlands
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20 Jul 1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed Director of Marxist
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20 Jul 1940 Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
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20 Jul 1940 California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
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20 Jul 1940 Singles record charts 1st published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1
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21 Jul 1940 VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
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21 Jul 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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22 Jul 1940 Dutch Prime Minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
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23 Jul 1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
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23 Jul 1940 The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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23 Jul 1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London
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24 Jul 1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in the Netherlands
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24 Jul 1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union
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25 Jul 1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River
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25 Jul 1940 General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
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27 Jul 1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
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27 Jul 1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
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28 Jul 1940 Radio Orange, London begins
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28 Jul 1940 Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
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29 Jul 1940 Urk soccer team forms
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31 Jul 1940 38 U-boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
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02 Aug 1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death
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02 Aug 1940 KL-House of saxon and commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
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03 Aug 1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies
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03 Aug 1940 Italian troops invade British Somalia
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03 Aug 1940 Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
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03 Aug 1940 Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
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03 Aug 1940 World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
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05 Aug 1940 "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
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05 Aug 1940 World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
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06 Aug 1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
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06 Aug 1940 Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
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07 Aug 1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
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07 Aug 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)
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07 Aug 1940 World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
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08 Aug 1940 31 German aircrafts shot down over England
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08 Aug 1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
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08 Aug 1940 The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
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10 Aug 1940 Prince Bernhard Fund forms
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11 Aug 1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
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11 Aug 1940 German air raid on British harbors Portland / Weymouth
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12 Aug 1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
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12 Aug 1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
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13 Aug 1940 Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
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14 Aug 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
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15 Aug 1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
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15 Aug 1940 Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
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15 Aug 1940 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.
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16 Aug 1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
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17 Aug 1940 FDR and Canadian Prime Minister William M King agree to joint defense commission
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17 Aug 1940 Greece mobilizes
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17 Aug 1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
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18 Aug 1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
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20 Aug 1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
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20 Aug 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
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20 Aug 1940 Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies
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20 Aug 1940 Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21
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23 Aug 1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
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23 Aug 1940 Queen Wilhelmina fires Premier De Geer
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24 Aug 1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
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24 Aug 1940 Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits and 1 run
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25 Aug 1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
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25 Aug 1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
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25 Aug 1940 1st parachute wedding
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26 Aug 1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
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27 Aug 1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
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28 Aug 1940 French colonies Cameroon / Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle
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29 Aug 1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
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30 Aug 1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
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31 Aug 1940 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
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31 Aug 1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
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31 Aug 1940 Fighter Command loses 39 / Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
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31 Aug 1940 German occupiers in the Netherlands begin soap ration
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31 Aug 1940 US National Guard assembles
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31 Aug 1940 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
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01 Sep 1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as Chief of Staff of US army
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02 Sep 1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey Country Club - Hershey, Pennsylvania
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02 Sep 1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
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03 Sep 1940 1st showing of high definition color TV
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03 Sep 1940 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record)
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03 Sep 1940 Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London
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03 Sep 1940 Sicherheits police bans Freemasons, Rotary, and Red Cross
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03 Sep 1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
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04 Sep 1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
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04 Sep 1940 Gerbrandy becomes Premier of Dutch government in exile
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04 Sep 1940 Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch
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06 Sep 1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
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06 Sep 1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
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06 Sep 1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.
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07 Sep 1940 54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)
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07 Sep 1940 60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
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07 Sep 1940 German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
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07 Sep 1940 Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
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07 Sep 1940 Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.
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09 Sep 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
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09 Sep 1940 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
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09 Sep 1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
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09 Sep 1940 Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts to ethnic cleansing.
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10 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
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11 Sep 1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
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11 Sep 1940 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
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11 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
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11 Sep 1940 George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
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12 Sep 1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
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12 Sep 1940 Italian troops enter Egypt
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12 Sep 1940 Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
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12 Sep 1940 An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
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12 Sep 1940 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
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13 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
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13 Sep 1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
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14 Sep 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
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14 Sep 1940 Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
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14 Sep 1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
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15 Sep 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
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15 Sep 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
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15 Sep 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
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15 Sep 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
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15 Sep 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
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15 Sep 1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
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16 Sep 1940 Dutch SS forms
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16 Sep 1940 FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
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16 Sep 1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
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16 Sep 1940 Luftwaffe attacks center of London
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16 Sep 1940 St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
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16 Sep 1940 World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
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16 Sep 1940 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
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17 Sep 1940 Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
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17 Sep 1940 World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
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18 Sep 1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
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18 Sep 1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
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18 Sep 1940 The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
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19 Sep 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
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19 Sep 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes
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24 Sep 1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
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25 Sep 1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
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26 Sep 1940 Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
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26 Sep 1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
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27 Sep 1940 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
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27 Sep 1940 Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
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27 Sep 1940 World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
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27 Sep 1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
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27 Sep 1940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
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28 Sep 1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
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28 Sep 1940 Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
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28 Sep 1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
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29 Sep 1940 "Double or Nothing, " a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
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29 Sep 1940 "Strike Up Band, " opens
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29 Sep 1940 1st US Merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac) launched at Wilmington, Delaware
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29 Sep 1940 Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.
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30 Sep 1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
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01 Oct 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
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01 Oct 1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
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02 Oct 1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
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02 Oct 1940 British Council receives British Charter
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02 Oct 1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
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03 Oct 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
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03 Oct 1940 US forms parachute troops
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04 Oct 1940 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
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04 Oct 1940 Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
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04 Oct 1940 French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
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04 Oct 1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off
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04 Oct 1940 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
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06 Oct 1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in San Francisco
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07 Oct 1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
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07 Oct 1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
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08 Oct 1940 Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
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08 Oct 1940 German troops occupies Romania
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09 Oct 1940 World War II: Battle of Britain: During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
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14 Oct 1940 Balham underground station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
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15 Oct 1940 The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
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16 Oct 1940 Warsaw Ghetto forms
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16 Oct 1940 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
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16 Oct 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
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16 Oct 1940 Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
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16 Oct 1940 Warsaw Ghetto established
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17 Oct 1940 German occupiers issue identity cards
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18 Oct 1940 Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here, " premieres in New York City
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20 Oct 1940 Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
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20 Oct 1940 Greenhouse rationing begins in the Netherlands
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21 Oct 1940 RAF drops 1st anti-Nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
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21 Oct 1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
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24 Oct 1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
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24 Oct 1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
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24 Oct 1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
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25 Oct 1940 Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
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25 Oct 1940 Colonel Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
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25 Oct 1940 US Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
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25 Oct 1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
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26 Oct 1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
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28 Oct 1940 Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Florence
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28 Oct 1940 World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. So, Greco-Italian War began. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
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28 Oct 1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
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29 Oct 1940 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
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30 Oct 1940 Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie, " premieres in New York City
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31 Oct 1940 Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends
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31 Oct 1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
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31 Oct 1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
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01 Nov 1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
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01 Nov 1940 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
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02 Nov 1940 World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
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04 Nov 1940 Eggs and cake rationed in the Netherlands
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05 Nov 1940 Dutch submarine departs Dundee
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05 Nov 1940 President FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
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05 Nov 1940 Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washingston Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
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05 Nov 1940 World War II: The British Armed Merchant Cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
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06 Nov 1940 Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected President
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07 Nov 1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Washington
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08 Nov 1940 RAF bombs Munich
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09 Nov 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WWII
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10 Nov 1940 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
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11 Nov 1940 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier
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11 Nov 1940 British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
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11 Nov 1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
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11 Nov 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
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12 Nov 1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
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13 Nov 1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
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14 Nov 1940 During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
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15 Nov 1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls
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15 Nov 1940 New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
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15 Nov 1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
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17 Nov 1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
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18 Nov 1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
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19 Nov 1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
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20 Nov 1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact
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21 Nov 1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in the Netherlands
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22 Nov 1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against Nazis
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23 Nov 1940 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
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23 Nov 1940 Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
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23 Nov 1940 SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
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25 Nov 1940 Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
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25 Nov 1940 Patria steamer sinks killing 200, outside of Haifa
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25 Nov 1940 U of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98
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26 Nov 1940 Leidse students strike
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26 Nov 1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
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26 Nov 1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
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27 Nov 1940 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
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27 Nov 1940 Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
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27 Nov 1940 In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga.
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27 Nov 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
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28 Nov 1940 Cleveringa arrested by Nazis
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30 Nov 1940 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
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30 Nov 1940 Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
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30 Nov 1940 Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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30 Nov 1940 1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
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06 Dec 1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter / poster artist Helen Ernst
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06 Dec 1940 Pietro Badoglio resigns as Viceroy of Ethiopia
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07 Dec 1940 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
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08 Dec 1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
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09 Dec 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya
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09 Dec 1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WWII
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09 Dec 1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
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09 Dec 1940 World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
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10 Dec 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
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11 Dec 1940 Russian General Zhukov warns of German assault
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12 Dec 1940 World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, as a result of a German air raid.
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12 Dec 1940 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
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16 Dec 1940 British air raid on Mannheim
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16 Dec 1940 Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
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17 Dec 1940 British troops occupies Sollum
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20 Dec 1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
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22 Dec 1940 World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
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23 Dec 1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
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23 Dec 1940 John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" premieres in New York NY
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25 Dec 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey, " premieres in New York City
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25 Dec 1940 Bradman out 1st ball for South Africa vs Victoria before 6213
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25 Dec 1940 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Pal Joey" premieres in New York NY
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26 Dec 1940 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
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26 Dec 1940 JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen" premieres in New York NY
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28 Dec 1940 Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
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29 Dec 1940 World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
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29 Dec 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII)
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29 Dec 1940 NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
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30 Dec 1940 California's 1st freeway (Arroyo Seco Parkway) opens
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