1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1940: The Wait for...

The list of shipwrecks in October 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1940. For the loss of SS Haulerwijk on...

Winston Spencer Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was an English Conservative politician and a grandson...

been held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo City, Japan, and later rescheduled for 20 July to 4 August 1940, in Helsinki, Finland following...

Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed prime...

The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic...

penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Wednesday, October 16, 1940, the last of three lunar eclipses in 1940. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed...

1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...

including 120 Spitfires. During the Battle of Britain from July 10, 1940, until October 31, 1940, the UK lost 1,065 aircraft(including 1,004 fighters); Germany...

30 August Boom Town September 1940 20 September The Mummy's Hand October 1940 15 October The Great Dictator November 1940 6 November North West Mounted...

March 1858, Kaleje - 20 October 1940) was a Polish physician, social and political activist, and a member of parliament. In March 1940, he was arrested by...

Nadezhda (1930). "The October Days". Reminiscences of Lenin. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. OCLC 847091253. Luxemburg, Rosa (1940) [1918]. The Russian...

Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime...

Heights, New York. She was acquired by the US Navy on 25 October 1940 and commissioned 27 December 1940. After calling at Norfolk, Virginia Emerald arrived...

James Michael Smith (17 October 1940 – 10 December 2019) was an English footballer and manager. As a player, he made 249 appearances in the Fourth Division...

posthumously awarded a George Cross for his actions on 17 October 1940. One notable casualty of the October raids was Ernest Hugh Snell FRSE, a retired local...

October 1939, launched on 8 July 1940 by Mrs. Doris Thompson, wife of a director of the builders. The submarine was commissioned on 31 October 1940....

On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian nationalist militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the...

(April–June 1940) Continuation war (June 25, 1941 – September 19, 1944) Lapland War (October 1, 1944 – April 25, 1945) Liberation of Finnmark (October 23, 1944...

in cooperation with the Allied convoy system. Her fifth patrol, in June 1940 was one of her most successful, making full use of the situation in Europe...

Solomon Islands. The story was initially reported in Italy in 1940 and the UK in 1940, before similar stories were repeated in 1948 and later again in...

1940. Hendy, David. "Caribbean Voices". BBC. Bourne 2013, p. 118. "Ken Johnson and his West Indian Dance Orchestra". The Radio Times. 11 October 1940...

created, in October 1937, Japan created the North China Development Company [zh] to exploit China's resource-rich north. On 30 March 1940, the Provisional...

July 1940 – Sqn Ldr Ronald Kellett 2 August 1940 – Sqn Ldr (maj) Zdzisław Krasnodębski 7 September 1940 – F/O (lt.) Witold Urbanowicz 22 October 1940 – F/O...

The year 1940 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1940. January – The FCC has public hearings...

was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, for a little more than 8 months during the Second World War...

1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular...

Shahnaz Pahlavi (Persian: شهناز پهلوی, born 27 October 1940) is the first child of the former Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his first wife,...

The Law of 3 October 1940 on the status of Jews was a law enacted by Vichy France. It provided a legal definition of the expression Jewish race, which...

Council. These were: Neville Chamberlain (11 May 1940 – 3 October 1940) Sir John Anderson (3 October 1940 – 24 September 1943) Clement Attlee (24 September...