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

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May 14th - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
May 14th - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
May 15th - 1st nylon stockings sold in US
May 15th - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
May 15th - German armour division moves into Northern France
May 15th - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
May 15th - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
May 15th - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
May 15th - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.
May 15th - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
May 16th - Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
May 16th - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
May 17th - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
May 17th - Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
May 18th - German troops conquer Brussels
May 19th - Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
May 19th - French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle
May 20th - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
May 20th - Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
May 20th - Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
May 20th - Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
May 21st - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
May 21st - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
May 21st - Reynaud forms French govt
May 22nd - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
May 22nd - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city
May 23rd - 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
May 24th - 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
May 24th - 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
May 24th - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
May 24th - Dutch army demobilizes
May 24th - German tanks reach Atrecht France
May 24th - Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
May 24th - NY Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds
May 25th - German troops conquer Boulogne
May 25th - Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
May 26th - Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
May 27th - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
May 27th - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
May 28th - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
May 28th - British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
May 28th - Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC
May 29th - Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
May 29th - Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague Neth
May 29th - In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
May 31st - Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
May 31st - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany
Jun 1st - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
Jun 1st - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
Jun 1st - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
Jun 2nd - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
Jun 3rd - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk
Jun 4th - 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)
Jun 4th - 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
Jun 4th - British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
Jun 4th - German forces enter Paris
Jun 4th - The synthetic rubber tire unveiled
Jun 4th - Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
Jun 5th - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
Jun 5th - American Negro Theater organizes
Jun 5th - Battle of France begins in WW II
Jun 5th - Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
Jun 5th - General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
Jun 5th - Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
Jun 5th - Netherlands rations petroleum
Jun 5th - Synthetic rubber tire unveiled
Jun 7th - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
Jun 8th - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
Jun 8th - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
Jun 8th - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
Jun 9th - 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH
Jun 9th - General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
Jun 9th - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
Jun 10th - French government moves to Bordeaux
Jun 10th - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
Jun 10th - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
Jun 10th - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
Jun 10th - Norway surrenders to nazis
Jun 10th - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
Jun 11th - Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
Jun 11th - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
Jun 11th - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
Jun 11th - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
Jun 13th - Paris evacuates before German advance
Jun 14th - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
Jun 14th - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
Jun 14th - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
Jun 15th - 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
Jun 15th - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
Jun 15th - France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
Jun 15th - Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
Jun 16th - Communist govt installed in Lithuania
Jun 16th - General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
Jun 17th - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
Jun 17th - General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
Jun 17th - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
Jun 17th - USSR occupies Estonia
Jun 17th - World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
Jun 18th - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
Jun 18th - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
Jun 18th - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
Jun 18th - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
Jun 19th - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
Jun 19th - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
Jun 19th - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
Jun 20th - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Jun 21st - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
Jun 21st - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jun 22nd - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
Jun 22nd - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
Jun 23rd - Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
Jun 23rd - RAF bombs Schiphol
Jun 24th - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
Jun 25th - Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
Jun 26th - End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
Jun 27th - Soviet Army attacks Romania
Jun 27th - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
Jun 28th - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
Jun 28th - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
Jun 29th - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
Jun 29th - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
Jun 29th - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
Jun 30th - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
Jun 30th - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
Jun 30th - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
Jul 1st - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
Jul 2nd - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
Jul 2nd - Hitler orders invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
Jul 2nd - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
Jul 2nd - PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
Jul 2nd - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
Jul 3rd - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
Jul 3rd - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
Jul 3rd - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
Jul 4th - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
Jul 4th - German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
Jul 5th - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
Jul 9th - 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
Jul 9th - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
Jul 9th - RAF bombs Germany
Jul 10th - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
Jul 10th - German planes attack British ships in the Canal
Jul 11th - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
Jul 14th - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
Jul 14th - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
Jul 15th - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
Jul 15th - Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
Jul 16th - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
Jul 18th - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
Jul 18th - British govt signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure