• 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 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 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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    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 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 NCAA basketball tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the participating champion of men's NCAA Division...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic...
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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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    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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    Purple Coat (1937) Le Rêve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Interior with an Etruscan Vase (1940), Cleveland Museum of Art Le...
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    Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She was commissioned on 14 September 1940, with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in command. Lehmann-Willenbrock...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1940 An Angel from Texas May 4, 1940 Tear Gas Squad May 11, 1940 Saturday's Children May 18, 1940 Flight Angels May 25, 1940 Torrid Zone June 1, 1940...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in June 1940: The Actions in...
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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 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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  • documentation, in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams — The Early Years, 1903-1940 (NY: Little, Brown, 2009), 39. ISBN 9780316091565 "Road to Zanzibar". Variety...
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    Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the...
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  • Jud Süß (pronounced [juːt zyːs], 'Süss, the Jew') is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama and propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph...
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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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  • (973 pages, published in 1983) Alone, 1932–1940 (756 pages, published in 1988) Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 (1232 pages, published in 2012, completed...
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  • between the years 1940 and 1949. "Disney Gives Technicolor Short to Aid Chest Drive". The Film Daily. 78 (62): 1. September 26, 1940. Retrieved 13 June...
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