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...

October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 62 days remain until the end of the year. 637 – Arab–Byzantine...

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...

Metaxas of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on 28 October 1940 and the subsequent Hellenic counterattack against the invading Italian...

fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends, causing Germany to abandon Operation...

singer-songwriter 1940 – Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician 1940 – Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright 1940 – Galen Weston...

Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress. 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through...

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...

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

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...

American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2022) 1940 – John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002) 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic...

made it a point to prove Harding's whiteness. Less than a month before the 1940 presidential election, President Roosevelt's press secretary Stephen Early...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

October 1940 to 2 January 1941) and Minister of Information (December 1940 to 2 January 1941): Paul Baudouin Minister of Agriculture (December 1940 to...

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

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

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,...

and War of '40 in Greece, took place between Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. This conflict began the Balkans campaign of World War...

The 1940 World Series matched the Cincinnati Reds against the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning a closely contested seven-game series. The victory...

time. 1929 – Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. 1940 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into...

(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...

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...

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...

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...