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1940 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2052. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1940 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1940

• February 8, 1940 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• February 29, 1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden’s Consul General in San Francisco.
• May 29, 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
• June 7, 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
• June 14, 1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
• July 5, 1940 – World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
• October 14, 1940 – Balham underground station disaster in London, England, sixty-six people in the station were killed during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
• October 26, 1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
• November 9, 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
• November 30, 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Who Were Born On 1940?

• January 17, 1940 – Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician, 39th President of Uruguay
• February 3, 1940 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player and sportscaster
• February 25, 1940 – Monica Proietti, Canadian bank robber (d. 1967)
• March 16, 1940 – Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
• April 25, 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor and director
• July 13, 1940 – Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• August 18, 1940 – Gil Whitney, American journalist (d. 1982)
• October 26, 1940 – John Horgan, Irish academic and politician
• November 17, 1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (d. 1984)
• December 21, 1940 – Frank Zappa, American contemporary composer, guitarist, and record producer (The Mothers of Invention) (d. 1993)