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The following events occurred in July 1940: July 1, 1940 (Monday) Philippe Pétain's government moved to Vichy. [1]
14 July: Soviets organize rigged elections in the Baltic States. The parliaments will be in the control of the Soviets. 16 July: Adolf Hitler submits to his military the directive for the invasion of the United Kingdom, Operation Sea Lion. 18 July: In response to Mers-el-Kébir, the Vichy French Air Force bombs British-held Gibraltar. 19 July
The Eighty (Les Quatre-Vingts) were a group of elected French parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that effectively dissolved the Third Republic and established the authoritarian regime of then-Prime Minister Philippe Pétain.
On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation ...
The Battle of Britain began on 10 July 1940, when the first Luftwaffe bomber fleets began attacking convoys and Royal Navy forces in English ports and the Channel. The results were positive and the Germans succeeded in forcing the British to abandon the channel convoy route and to redirect shipping to ports in north-eastern Britain.
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
9 July 1940 Official start date of the Battle of Britain. 10 July 1940 Introduction of Defence Regulation 58AA allowing the Minister of Labour to ban strike action and force compulsory arbitration. No strikes are called by any trade union during the war; there are unofficial short local strikes in coal, shipbuilding and machinery. [12] 21 July 1940
July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 days remain until the end of the year. ... 1940 – World War II: ...