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July 2 – Joshua Bryant, American actor, director, author and speaker (d. 2024) July 3. Fontella Bass, African-American soul singer ("Rescue Me") (d. 2012) Lance Larson, American swimmer, Olympic champion, world record-holder in four events (d. 2024) Chuck Sieminski, American football player (d. 2020) Lamar Alexander, American politician
Roger Ailes, American television executive (died 2017) Lainie Kazan, American actress; May 17 – Peter Gerety, actor; May 22 Michael Sarrazin, actor (died 2011) Bernard Shaw, journalist (died 2022) May 24 – Arvin Brown, American theatre and television director; June 1 – René Auberjonois, actor, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (died 2019)
1940 – Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker make their cartoon debuts; 1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music popularity chart, the predecessor to today's Hot 100; 1940 – U.S. presidential election, 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president to a record third term, Henry A. Wallace is elected vice president
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.
May 21 – Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back. June – W2XBS in New York ( NBC ) covers the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania for 33 hours, during a five-day period.
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... December 1940 events in North America (2 C, 1 P) C. 1940 events in Canada by ...
“THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA BEGINS RIGHT!” Trump captioned the video, which praised the president for “the most historic 100 hours in American history.”
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.