Page 10: Historical Events In 1940

Jun 16   Communist govt installed in Lithuania on this day in history.   

Jun 16   In the year 1940 dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies   

Jun 16   In the year 1940 hMS GRAMPUS,sunk off Augusta, eastern Sicily in Ionian Sea by Italian torpedo boats 'Circe' and 'Clio'.   

Jun 17   In the year 1940 chief of Naval Operations asks Congress for money to build two-ocean Navy   

Jun 17   France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II on this day in history.   

Jun 18   Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers on this day in history.   

Jun 18   In the year 1940 the French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.   

Jun 18   The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France on this day in history.   

Jun 18   Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour" in the year 1940.   

Jun 19   In the year 1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago   

Jun 19   "Brenda Starr," first cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago in the year 1940.   

Jun 19   HMS ORPHEUS, sunk north of Tobruk, eastern Libya by Italian destroyer "Turbine" on this day in history.   

Jun 19   Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

Jun 20   Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 in the year 1940.   

Jun 20   Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.   

Jun 21   On this day in history edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies   

Jun 21   In the year 1940 german occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State   

Jun 21   HMAS Sydney and Stuart bombard Bardia in the year 1940.   

Jun 22   Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up) in the year 1940.   

Jun 22   In the year 1940 france falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed   

Jun 22   In the year 1940 france falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms   

Jun 22   In the year 1940 french sign armistice with Germans at Compiegne   

Jun 22   In the year 1940 m A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies   

Jun 23   Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp in the year 1940.   

Jun 24   France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II in the year 1940.   

Jun 25   Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France in the year 1940.   

Jun 25   In the year 1940 clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)   

Jun 25   HMCS FRASER (RCN, ex 'Crescent), lost off Gironde Estuary, western France by collision with RN cruiser 'Calcutta' on this day in history.   

Jun 26   In the year 1940 end of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27   

Jun 26   Hundreds of Kovno Jews are taken to the "Ninth Fort" and murdered in the year 1940.   

Jun 27   800 Jews are burned alive inside Great Synagogue. 1,200 others die in shooting on this day in history.   

Jun 27   In the year 1940 hMS WREN, sunk 10 miles of Aldeburgh, eastern England in North Sea - by German bombers.   

Jun 27   Soviet Army attacks Romania on this day in history.   

Jun 27   In the year 1940 uSSR returns to the Gregorian calendar   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of s. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician   

Jan 03   Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor (Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas) was born in the year 1940.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of anthony Skooter Teague, Texas, actor (How to Succeed in Business)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973)   

Jan 04   Helmut Jahn, German architect was born in the year 1940.   

Jan 04   Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate was born in the year 1940.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of dany Saval, Oakland Calif, actress (Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot)   

Jan 05   Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994) was born in the year 1940.   

Jan 01   On this day in history death of panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)   

Jan 04   Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 in the year 1940.   

Jan 05   Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46 on this day in history.   

Jan 12   Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 in the year 1940.   

Jan 18   In the year 1940 kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74   

Jan 20   Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861) died in the year 1940.   

Jan 24   In the year 1940 emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52   

Jan 25   On this day in history death of elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)