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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