Apr 30 The World's Fair, at a cost of $150 million, opens in New York amid a blaze of fireworks. England's king and queen arrive for the opening. Regular television broadcasting begins from the Fair.

Apr 07 Italy annexes Albania

Apr 19 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights

Apr 08 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war

Apr 20 New York World's Fair opens

Apr 01 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war

Apr 30 NBC/RCA first public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair

Apr 19 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

Apr 05 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory

Apr 07 Italy invades Albania

Apr 04 Canada recognizes the government of General Francisco Franco of Spain, following the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Apr 21 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1505 Koranna

Apr 01 USA recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war

Apr 04 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq

Apr 09 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial

Apr 12 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1489 Attila

Apr 29 Whitestone bridge connecting the Bronx & Queens opens

Apr 20 Ted Williams' first hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double

Apr 07 The birth of Francis Ford Coppola, American director

Apr 06 US &UK agree on joint control of Canton &Enderbury Is (Pacific)

Nov 09 Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes assassination when a bomb explodes in the historic Buergenbraeu Hall in Munich shortly after the Chancellor had left to return to Berlin.

Nov 14 Oil refinery fire kills 500 &destroys Lagunillas Venezuela

Nov 04 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill

Nov 06 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), first commercial TV station, begins service

Nov 01 Trans Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights

Nov 07 Germans begin expulsion of Jews from Western Poland.

Nov 23 Wearing distinctive armband, "Judenstern" (Jewish star) becomes obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland.

Nov 27 Inauguration of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)

Nov 12 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands

Nov 04 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland

Nov 30 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute

Nov 30 Following Finland's rejection of Soviet demands to sign a mutual assistance pact and cede Finnish territory for the defense of Leningrad, the Red Army attacks Finland at various positions along the Russo-Finnish frontier

Nov 04 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II

Nov 16 Destruction of Talmudic Academy in Lublin and its huge library, which gave "so much pleasure to its conquerors that it was recalled with glee more than a year later."

Nov 01 The first animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

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