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Months in 1940: January February March April May June July September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 50 of 50

2nd - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
2nd - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
3rd - German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
3rd - Italian troops invade British Somalia
3rd - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
3rd - Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
5th - "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
5th - St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
6th - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
7th - Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile
7th - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
7th - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
8th - 31 German aircrafts shot down over England
8th - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
8th - The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
10th - Prince Bernhard Fund forms
11th - 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
11th - German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
12th - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
12th - Netherlands starts rationing textile
13th - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
13th - Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
14th - Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
15th - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
15th - Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
16th - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
17th - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
17th - Greece mobilizes
17th - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
18th - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
20th - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
20th - Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
20th - British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
23rd - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
23rd - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
24th - Luftwaffe bombs London
24th - Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run
25th - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
25th - 1st parachute wedding
25th - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
26th - RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
26th - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
27th - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
28th - French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
29th - 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
31st - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
31st - 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
31st - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
31st - German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
31st - US National Guard assembles

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 71 of 71

1st - Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
1st - Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
1st - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
2nd - Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
3rd - John W Carlin, (Gov-D-KS)
3rd - Joseph Dorfman, composer
3rd - Lance Alworth, Houston Tx, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys)
3rd - Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez], NY, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
4th - Karel Vachek, director (Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities)
4th - Rosemarie "Timi" Yuro, US singer (Hurt)
4th - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
6th - Louise Sorel, LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
6th - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
7th - Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
7th - Tom Barlow, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
7th - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
8th - Dilip Sardesai, cricketer (high scoring Indian batsman of 60's)
9th - Beverlee McKinsey, Okla, actress (Iris-Another World, Guiding Light)
10th - Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
10th - Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
10th - Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire)
10th - Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
11th - Kip King, Chicago Ill, actor (Charlie & Company)
12th - Alexander Yossifov, composer
12th - Eddie Barlow, cricketer (Great South African all-rounder)
12th - Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor (Never Say Die)
13th - Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder (Children's Hospice Intl)
13th - Timothy Wood, British govt asst whip
14th - Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
14th - Galen Hall, WLAF Head Coach (Orlando Thunder, Rhein Fire)
15th - Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist
15th - Rita Shane, American soprano
16th - Bruce Beresford, Austral director (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies)
17th - David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
17th - Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
18th - Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
18th - Joan Joyce, Waterbury CT, LPGA golfer (1984 S&H Golf Classic-6th)
19th - Jan Claire, actor (American Anthem)
19th - Jill St John, [Oppenheim], LA Calif, actress (Diamonds are Forever)
19th - Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
20th - John Lantree, rocker
20th - Rex Sellers, Aust cricketer leg-spinner (bowled 5 overs in Tests)
20th - Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
20th - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
21st - Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist
21st - Robert Camac, horse trainer
22nd - Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
22nd - David Vance, horse trainer
22nd - George Reinholt, Phila, actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live)
22nd - John Banham, director-general (CBI)
22nd - Valerie Harper, Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
23rd - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
23rd - Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
23rd - Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
24th - Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
24th - Tony Secunda, rock band manager
24th - Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
25th - Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif)
26th - Fred Milano, rocker
26th - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
27th - David Hart, gen-sect (National Assn of Head Teachers)
27th - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, jazz guitarist
28th - Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP)
28th - William S Cohen, (Sen-R Maine, 1979- )
28th - Ken Jenkins, American actor
28th - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
28th - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
29th - James Brady, press secretary (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt)
29th - Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
31st - Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
31st - Jack Thompson, [John Pain], Sydney Australia, actor (Breaker Morant)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 18 of 18

3rd - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
4th - Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
5th - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
8th - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
13th - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75
16th - Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
16th - Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
18th - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
21st - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
21st - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
21st - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
21st - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
22nd - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
24th - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
29th - Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77
30th - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
31st - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58
31st - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)