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

Results 301 - 450 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)
Sep 11th - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
Sep 12th - 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
Sep 12th - Italian troops enter Egypt
Sep 12th - 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
Sep 13th - Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
Sep 13th - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
Sep 14th - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
Sep 14th - German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
Sep 15th - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
Sep 15th - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
Sep 15th - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
Sep 15th - PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
Sep 15th - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
Sep 16th - Dutch SS forms
Sep 16th - FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
Sep 16th - Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
Sep 16th - Luftwaffe attacks center of London
Sep 16th - Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House
Sep 16th - St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
Sep 17th - Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
Sep 18th - 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
Sep 18th - Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC
Sep 18th - Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
Sep 19th - Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
Sep 19th - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
Sep 23rd - -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees
Sep 23rd - Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler
Sep 24th - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
Sep 24th - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
Sep 25th - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling govt
Sep 25th - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
Sep 26th - Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
Sep 26th - Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
Sep 27th - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
Sep 27th - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
Sep 27th - Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
Sep 27th - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
Sep 27th - Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
Sep 28th - Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
Sep 28th - Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
Sep 28th - Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
Sep 29th - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
Sep 29th - "Strike Up Band," opens
Sep 29th - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
Sep 30th - 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
Sep 30th - 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons)
Oct 1st - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
Oct 2nd - 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
Oct 2nd - British Council receives British Charter
Oct 2nd - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk