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March 26, 1940 (Tuesday) A federal election was held in Canada. The Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected to another majority government. Born: James Caan, actor, in the Bronx, New York (d. 2022) Nancy Pelosi, 52nd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in Baltimore, Maryland.
March. 1 March: Adolf Hitler directs his generals in planning the invasion of Denmark and Norway. 3 March: Soviets begin attacks on Viipuri, Finland's second largest city. 5 March: Finland tells the Soviets they will agree to their terms for ending the war.
Winter War. The Winter War[F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and ...
Katyn massacre. The Katyn massacre[a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin 's order in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the ...
Carlos Ray " Chuck " Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo. [1] After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. Shortly after, in Hollywood, Norris trained ...
On the morning of 10 May 1940 the Dutch awoke to the sound of aircraft engines roaring in the sky. Germany had commenced Operation Fall Gelb and attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg, in the case of the Low Countries without a declaration of war given before hostilities; France was already at war.
Mays was offered the presidency on March 10 and inaugurated the sixth president on August 1, 1940. [63] Upon his assumption of the presidency, the school was in severe financial distress. [ 63 ] In his first speech to an incoming freshman class in 1940, he said, "If Morehouse is to continue to be great; it must continue to produce outstanding ...
30 March 1940: Newspapers printed news about Lahore Resolution, demanding division of India. The resolution for the establishment of a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India passed in the annual session of the All India Muslim League held in Lahore on 22–24 March 1940 is a landmark document of Pakistan's history. [11]