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

Results 451 - 567 of 567

Oct 3rd - France Vichy govt proclaims end to Jewish status
Oct 3rd - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak
Oct 3rd - US forms parachute troops
Oct 4th - 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
Oct 4th - Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
Oct 4th - French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
Oct 4th - Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
Oct 6th - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
Oct 7th - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
Oct 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.
Oct 8th - Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
Oct 8th - German troops occupies Romania
Oct 14th - Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
Oct 15th - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
Oct 15th - London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
Oct 15th - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
Oct 16th - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
Oct 16th - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
Oct 16th - Warsaw Ghetto forms
Oct 17th - German occupiers issue identity cards
Oct 18th - Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC
Oct 20th - Cheese rationed in Netherlands
Oct 20th - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands
Oct 21st - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
Oct 24th - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
Oct 24th - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
Oct 24th - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
Oct 24th - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
Oct 25th - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
Oct 25th - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
Oct 25th - Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC
Oct 25th - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
Oct 26th - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
Oct 28th - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
Oct 28th - Meeting between Hitler & Mussolini in Florence
Oct 29th - Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
Oct 30th - Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in NYC
Oct 31st - 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
Oct 31st - Battle of Britain: Germany & Britair control of English Channel, ends
Oct 31st - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto
Nov 1st - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
Nov 1st - Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
Nov 4th - Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
Nov 5th - Dutch submarine departs Dundee
Nov 5th - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
Nov 5th - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
Nov 6th - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
Nov 7th - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
Nov 7th - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
Nov 8th - RAF bombs Munich
Nov 9th - Germany invades Norway & Denmark in WW II
Nov 10th - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
Nov 10th - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
Nov 11th - 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier
Nov 11th - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
Nov 11th - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
Nov 11th - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
Nov 12th - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
Nov 13th - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
Nov 14th - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
Nov 15th - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
Nov 15th - 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
Nov 15th - NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
Nov 16th - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
Nov 17th - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
Nov 18th - George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb
Nov 18th - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
Nov 19th - Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
Nov 19th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
Nov 20th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
Nov 20th - Hungary joins 3 Power pact
Nov 20th - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
Nov 21st - Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
Nov 22nd - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
Nov 23rd - 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
Nov 23rd - Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
Nov 23rd - SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
Nov 25th - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
Nov 25th - U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
Nov 25th - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
Nov 25th - First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Nov 26th - Leidse students strike
Nov 26th - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
Nov 27th - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
Nov 27th - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
Nov 28th - Cleveringa arrested by nazis
Nov 30th - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
Nov 30th - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
Nov 30th - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
Dec 6th - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
Dec 6th - Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
Dec 7th - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
Dec 7th - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
Dec 7th - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
Dec 8th - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
Dec 9th - British assault on Banghazi Libya
Dec 9th - British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
Dec 9th - Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
Dec 9th - South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
Dec 10th - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
Dec 11th - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
Dec 12th - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
Dec 16th - British air raid on Mannheim
Dec 16th - Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
Dec 17th - British troops occupies Sollum
Dec 20th - Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
Dec 22nd - World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
Dec 23rd - John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in NYC
Dec 25th - Bradman out 1st ball for SA v Victoria before 6213
Dec 25th - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in NYC
Dec 26th - 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
Dec 26th - JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
Dec 28th - Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
Dec 29th - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
Dec 29th - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
Dec 30th - California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
Dec 31st - 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)