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1940 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2024. 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
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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.
- April 9, 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
- May 10, 1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
- June 24, 1940 – World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
- July 10, 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain: The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
- July 19, 1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
- July 25, 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- August 31, 1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
- October 15, 1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
- November 25, 1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Who Were Born On 1940?
- February 29, 1940 – Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
- April 13, 1940 – Max Mosley, English race car driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering
- April 20, 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
- May 25, 1940 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer
- June 23, 1940 – Adam Faith, English singer, actor, and journalist (d. 2003)
- August 11, 1940 – Lennie Pond, American race car driver
- August 22, 1940 – Bill McCartney, American football player and coach, founded Promise Keepers
- October 14, 1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
- November 1, 1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India