Historical Events In 1940
Mar 01 12th Academy Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat &Vivien Leigh win
Mar 14 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
Mar 07 Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
Mar 12 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
Mar 02 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
Mar 23 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
Mar 27 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
Mar 23 First radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
Mar 19 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
Mar 31 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
Mar 18 In the Brenner Pass in the Alps, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini, leader of Fascist Italy, meet to discuss Italy’s imminent entrance into World War II in an alliance with Germany
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