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

Historical Events

Results 301 - 400 of 567

Jul 18th - Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
Jul 19th - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
Jul 19th - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
Jul 19th - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
Jul 20th - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
Jul 20th - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
Jul 20th - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey)
Jul 21st - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Jul 21st - VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
Jul 22nd - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
Jul 22nd - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
Jul 23rd - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
Jul 24th - 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
Jul 24th - Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
Jul 25th - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
Jul 27th - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
Jul 27th - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
Jul 28th - Radio Orange, London begins
Jul 28th - Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
Jul 29th - Urk soccer team forms
Jul 31st - 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
Jul 31st - Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
Aug 2nd - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
Aug 2nd - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
Aug 3rd - German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
Aug 3rd - Italian troops invade British Somalia
Aug 3rd - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
Aug 3rd - Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
Aug 5th - "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
Aug 5th - St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
Aug 6th - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
Aug 7th - Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile
Aug 7th - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
Aug 7th - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
Aug 8th - 31 German aircrafts shot down over England
Aug 8th - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
Aug 8th - The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
Aug 10th - Prince Bernhard Fund forms
Aug 11th - 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
Aug 11th - German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
Aug 12th - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
Aug 12th - Netherlands starts rationing textile
Aug 13th - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
Aug 13th - Goering's "Adler Tag" 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over South-Engld
Aug 14th - Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
Aug 15th - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
Aug 15th - Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
Aug 16th - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
Aug 17th - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
Aug 17th - Greece mobilizes
Aug 17th - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
Aug 18th - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
Aug 20th - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
Aug 20th - Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
Aug 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"
Aug 23rd - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
Aug 23rd - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
Aug 24th - Luftwaffe bombs London
Aug 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
Aug 25th - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
Aug 25th - 1st parachute wedding
Aug 25th - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
Aug 26th - RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
Aug 26th - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
Aug 27th - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
Aug 28th - French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
Aug 29th - 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
Aug 31st - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
Aug 31st - 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
Aug 31st - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
Aug 31st - German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
Aug 31st - US National Guard assembles
Sep 1st - Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of US army
Sep 2nd - 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
Sep 2nd - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
Sep 3rd - 1st showing of high definition color TV
Sep 3rd - 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record)
Sep 3rd - Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
Sep 3rd - Neth govt in exile of Gerbrandy forms London
Sep 3rd - Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
Sep 3rd - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
Sep 4th - CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
Sep 4th - Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch govt in exile
Sep 4th - Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch
Sep 4th - Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Neth in Hitler's hands
Sep 6th - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
Sep 6th - Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
Sep 7th - 54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)
Sep 7th - 60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
Sep 7th - German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
Sep 7th - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
Sep 7th - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
Sep 9th - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
Sep 9th - 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
Sep 10th - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
Sep 11th - -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
Sep 11th - 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
Sep 11th - Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
Sep 11th - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
Sep 11th - Hitler begins operation-Seelöwe (aborted invasion England)

Famous Birthdays

Results 301 - 400 of 743

May 17th - Alan Kay, American computer scientist
May 18th - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist
May 18th - Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler (South African in 4 Tests 1966-70)
May 19th - Carlos Diegues, actor (Xica)
May 19th - Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
May 19th - Joan Staley, playmate (Nov, 1958)
May 19th - Mickey Newbury, rocker
May 19th - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
May 20th - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
May 20th - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
May 20th - Stan Mikita, NHL center (led NHL in scoring 4 times)
May 22nd - Bernard Shaw, news correspondant (CBS, CNN)
May 22nd - Erapalli Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners)
May 22nd - Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
May 24th - Gary Burghoff, Bristol CT, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
May 24th - Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
May 26th - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
May 26th - Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
May 27th - Rene Koering, composer
May 28th - Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow (Malcolm X)
May 28th - Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
May 28th - Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979- )
May 29th - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
May 30th - David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
May 31st - Augie Mayer, rocker (Sir Douglas Quintet)
May 31st - Elfi Mikesch, cinematographer (Erotique, Out of America, Malina)
May 31st - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
Jun 1st - Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
Jun 1st - Kip Thorne, American physicist
Jun 2nd - Christopher Bernau, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Guiding Light)
Jun 2nd - Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73)
Jun 2nd - Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
Jun 2nd - Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher
Jun 3rd - Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
Jun 4th - Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
Jun 4th - Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Jun 4th - Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
Jun 5th - H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (S African batting all-rounder 1961-67)
Jun 5th - Moira Anderson, Scotland, singer (Loch Lomond)
Jun 6th - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
Jun 6th - Phillip Rhodes, composer
Jun 6th - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
Jun 6th - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
Jun 7th - Tom Jones, [Woodward], Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
Jun 7th - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
Jun 8th - Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
Jun 8th - Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
Jun 9th - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")
Jun 10th - John William Stevens, jazz drummer
Jun 11th - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
Jun 13th - Bobby Freeman, SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
Jun 14th - Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
Jun 14th - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
Jun 14th - Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
Jun 14th - John Mizelle, composer
Jun 15th - Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer
Jun 16th - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
Jun 16th - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
Jun 16th - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
Jun 17th - Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
Jun 17th - Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
Jun 17th - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
Jun 18th - Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)
Jun 18th - Jim Albus, Staten Island NY, PGA golfer (1991 Mazda Senior Players)
Jun 18th - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
Jun 19th - Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)
Jun 20th - John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
Jun 20th - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
Jun 21st - Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
Jun 21st - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
Jun 22nd - Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up)
Jun 22nd - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
Jun 23rd - Alexander Irvine, Lord Chanceller of UK (1997- )
Jun 23rd - Diana Trask, Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
Jun 23rd - Mike Shrimpton, cricketer (occasional NZ Test batsman 1963-74)
Jun 23rd - Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open)
Jun 23rd - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Beatles)
Jun 23rd - Wilma Rudolph, St Bethlehem Tenn, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1960)
Jun 23rd - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
Jun 25th - Clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)
Jun 25th - A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
Jun 26th - Billy Davis Jr, St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
Jun 26th - Robert Kramer, actor (A.K.)
Jun 26th - Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer (Taxi, Little Buddah, Dick Tracy)
Jun 27th - Erik Erikson, anthropologist
Jun 28th - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Jun 28th - Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
Jun 29th - Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
Jun 29th - Viacheslav Artyomov, composer
Jun 30th - Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
Jul 1st - Jack Acker, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
Jul 1st - Kenneth Clarke, British minister
Jul 3rd - Cesar Tovar, baseball player
Jul 3rd - Fontella Bass, St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
Jul 3rd - Heather Steel, British judge
Jul 3rd - Lance Larson, US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960)
Jul 3rd - Lamar Alexander, American politician
Jul 4th - Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
Jul 4th - Walter Greenman, horse trainer
Jul 4th - Karolyn Grimes, American actress

Famous Deaths

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