• 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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    The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign...
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    The 1940 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the...
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    The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of...
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  • The 1940 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (第五回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Dai Go-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and as Sapporo 1940 (札幌1940)...
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  • The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...
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    World War II (category Conflicts in 1940)
    onset of campaigns in North and East Africa, and the fall of France in mid-1940, the war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the British...
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    The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad, was a planned international multi-sport event scheduled to have been held...
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  • 1940 Academy Awards may refer to: 12th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1940 13th Academy Awards, the 1941 ceremony honoring...
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  • 1940 Olympics refers to both: The 1940 Winter Olympics, which were originally to be held in Sapporo, Japan before being relocated to Garmisch-Partenkirchen...
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    The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic...
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    established). For the first two years, the majority of inmates were Polish. In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt (category Candidates in the 1940 United States presidential election)
    in 1932 and 58% higher in 1940 on the eve of war. That is, the economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940, and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in five years of...
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  • Forum of the Air WOW Radio, Omaha, Nebraska The President's Birthday Ball of 1940 WZXR Radio, New York, New York High Standards of Musical Progress WRC and...
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    m/1940 loads its magazine from the side, similar to the FG 42. It also has the ability to use 20 round magazines from Swedish type M1918 BARs. In 1940 there...
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  • Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and...
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  • following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1940 and 1949. During this period 78 people were executed by electrocution at...
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    Winston Churchill (category Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940)
    and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from...
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    campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts...
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  • The Curse of 1940, also called Dutton's Curse, was a superstitious explanation for why the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New York Rangers did not win...
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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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    Winston Spencer Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was an English Conservative politician and a grandson...
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  • The 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya was an autonomous revolt against the Soviet authorities in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...
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    The ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Red Navy between 1940 and 1943 were characterised by continuing reforms to the Soviet armed forces in the...
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    in 1939 under the so-called "Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 formally integrating the military aims of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later...
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    Roman Gabriel (category 1940 births)
    Roman Ildonzo Gabriel Jr. (August 5, 1940 – April 20, 2024) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football...
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    Fuess 1940, p. 238. Fuess 1940, pp. 239–243; McCoy 1967, pp. 102–113. Sobel 1998a, p. 117; Fuess 1940, p. 195. Fuess 1940, p. 186. Fuess 1940, p. 187;...
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    Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed Prime...
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  • Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Carlo Collodi's...
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    The 1940 United States Senate elections coincided with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to his third term as president. The 32 seats of Class 1 were...
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