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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.
1940 Henry Guttman Germany [s 2] Saint Paul's During the Blitz: July 1940 John Topham: London, England, United Kingdom 35 mm [s 2] Buckingham Palace: 13 September 1940 Cecil Beaton: London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico: 1 November 1941 Ansel Adams Hernandez, New Mexico, United States Gelatin silver print, large ...
Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940), decided, allowing a racially restrictive covenant to be lifted. November 13 – Walt Disney 's third feature film, Fantasia , is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it recoups its cost years later and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1940s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of a person's notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by ...
British Parliament met for the first time in the New Year. [18] Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made a speech on the general war situation which concluded, "At the moment there is a lull in the operations of war, but at any time that lull may be sharply broken, and events may occur within a few weeks or even a few hours which will reshape ...
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.
2 September - 33 people are killed in an air raid on Swansea. 3 September - Eleven people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. 4 September - A German Junkers Ju 88 crashes near Machynlleth. Four crew and a Gestapo officer are captured. 13 September - A German Heinkel 111 crashes into a house in Newport, Monmouthshire.
Pages in category "1940 births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 11,879 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.