Historical Events for October 1940
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Results 1 - 44 of 44
1st - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
2nd - 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
2nd - British Council receives British Charter
2nd - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
3rd - France Vichy govt proclaims end to Jewish status
3rd - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak
3rd - US forms parachute troops
4th - 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
4th - Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
4th - French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
4th - Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
6th - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
7th - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
7th - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
8th - Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
8th - German troops occupies Romania
14th - Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
15th - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
15th - London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
15th - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
16th - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
16th - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
16th - Warsaw Ghetto forms
17th - German occupiers issue identity cards
18th - Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC
20th - Cheese rationed in Netherlands
20th - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands
21st - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
24th - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
24th - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
24th - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
24th - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
25th - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
25th - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
25th - Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC
25th - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
26th - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
28th - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
28th - Meeting between Hitler & Mussolini in Florence
29th - Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
30th - Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in NYC
31st - 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
31st - Battle of Britain: Germany & Britair control of English Channel, ends
31st - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto
