• 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in February 1940: The 2nd Battle...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...
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  • May 2022. MAC DONNCHA, MÍCHEÁL (7 February 2015). "Peter Barnes and James McCormack – Hanged in England, 7 February 1940". An Phoblacht. Retrieved 18 April...
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  • The 1940 Southampton by-election was held on 1 February 1940. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Liberal National...
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  • shipwrecks in February 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during February 1940. "Naval Events, February 1940, Part 1 of 2...
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  • January 1940 26 January The Fighting 69th February 1940 23 February Pinocchio April 1940 12 April Rebecca 20 April 'Til We Meet Again May 1940 17 May My...
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  • and as Sapporo 1940 (札幌1940), was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held from 3 to 12 February 1940 in Sapporo, Empire of...
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    kills in 22 days 26 January 1940: 199 sniper kills (61 in 35 days) 17 February 1940: 219 sniper kills (20 in 22 days) 7 March 1940 (one day after he was wounded):...
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  • movement to prepare an armed insurrection against the Soviets. By early February 1940, Israilov's rebels took over several auls in Shatoysky District. The...
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    World War fell to fighters from RAF Acklington in Northumberland on 3 February 1940, when three Hurricanes of 'B' flight, No. 43 Squadron, shot down a Luftwaffe...
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    The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in May 1940: The Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang...
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    requested to purchase the ship. The Kriegsmarine agreed to the sale in February 1940, and the transfer was completed on 15 April. The vessel was still incomplete...
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  • James Laurenson (category 1940 births)
    James Laurenson (17 February 1940 – 18 April 2024) was a New Zealand stage and screen actor, based in the UK. Laurenson was born in Marton, North Island...
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    keel was laid down 1 February 1940 by DeSchiMAG AG Weser, of Bremen, Germany as yard number 973. She was launched on 25 August 1940 and commissioned on...
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  • November 28, 1939), Gretchen Christopher (born February 29, 1940), and Barbara Ellis (born February 20, 1940). The band members met as high school students...
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  • Jimmy Tarbuck (category 1940 births)
    James Joseph Tarbuck OBE (born 6 February 1940) is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host. Tarbuck was a host of Sunday Night...
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    Nikolai Yezhov (category 1940 deaths)
    Иванович Ежов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head...
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    reorganized and adopted different tactics, they renewed their offensive in February 1940 and overcame the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus. This left...
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    Moscow Peace Treaty was signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on 12 March 1940, and the ratifications were exchanged on 21 March. It marked the end of the...
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  • National Assembly adopts the Constitution. 1936 – The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends. 1940 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie...
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    H. R. Giger (category 1940 births)
    Hans Ruedi Giger (/ˈɡiːɡər/ GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended...
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    Prue Leith (category 1940 births)
    Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, DBE (born 18 February 1940) is a South African restaurateur, television presenter/broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist...
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  • The 1940 German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (also known as Economic Agreement of 11 February 1940 Between the German Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist...
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  • Judy Cornwell (category 1940 births)
    Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress and writer best known for her role as Daisy in the successful British sitcom Keeping...
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    1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads, based on his experiences during the 1930s, which earned him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour". In February 1940,...
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  • Scandinavia. 11 February 1940: Soviets score decisive breakthrough of Mannerheim Line. 12 February 1940: Finns seek peace terms. 1–5 March 1940: Fighting in...
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    Vsevolod Meyerhold (category 1940 deaths)
    Mejerchól'd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor...
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    succession to the throne in December 1936. The battleship was launched on 28 February 1940 and completed on 4 November 1941, and joined the Home Fleet at Scapa...
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    E. F. Benson (category 1940 deaths)
    Edward Frederic Benson OBE (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer. E. F. Benson...
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