Page 17: Historical Events In 1940

Nov 05   Dutch submarine departs Dundee   

Nov 05   Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected to a record third term as President   

Nov 05   In this year, President FDR (D) claims unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)   

Nov 06   Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president   

Nov 06   HMCS Ottawa is sunk by the Italian submarine DiBruno.   

Nov 06   Roosevelt is elected President. Democrats keep House control.   

Nov 06   Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service   

Nov 07   Guido Provoost, Belgian historian   

Nov 07   Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago.   

Nov 07   Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash.   

Nov 08   RAF bombs Munich   

Nov 10   Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71   

Nov 10   Pittsburgh and Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game.   

Nov 11   1000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier.   

Nov 11   Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100   

Nov 12   Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34   

Nov 12   Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)   

Nov 12   Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers   

Nov 13   Walt Disney's"Fantasia" released   

Nov 14   During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England.   

Nov 14   During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England.   

Nov 15   1st 75000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime   

Nov 16   World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.   

Nov 17   Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane.   

Nov 18   George Matesky Mad Bomber's inaugural time bomb   

Nov 18   George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his inaugural bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.   

Nov 19   Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler.   

Nov 20   German air raid on Birmingham fails   

Nov 20   Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia join Axis   

Nov 21   Dr John, [Rebennack], New Orleans La, vocalist (I Was in Right Place).   

Nov 21   Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies   

Nov 21   Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands   

Nov 22   500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis   

Nov 22   Terry Gilliam (actor Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )   

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Jan 02   S. r. s. varadhan: Indian-american mathematician   

Jan 03   Thelma schoonmaker: Actress/editor (casino, cape fear, good fellas)   

Jan 04   Anthony skooter teague: Texas, actor (how to succeed in business)   

Jan 04   Brian josephson: British physicist (nobel 1973)   

Jan 04   Helmut jahn: German architect   

Jan 04   Gao xingjian: Chinese-born french novelist and dramatist, nobel laureate   

Jan 05   Dany saval: Oakland calif, actress (boeing boeing, moon pilot)   

Jan 05   Michael o'donoghue: American writer   

Jan 01   Panuganti lakshminarasimha rao: Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)   

Jan 04   Conrad weiss: German writer/poet (heart of words),   

Jan 05   Tina modotti: [maria del carmen], ital/mexican communist,   

Jan 12   Erich r jaensch: German psychologist (eidetiek),    

Jan 18   Kazimierz p tetmajer: Polish writer/poet (young poland),   

Jan 20   Omar bundy: U.s. army general (b. 1861)   

Jan 24   Emile van bosch: Revue/operetta-artist,    

Jan 25   Elias simojoki: Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)