• 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in December 1940: Greek troops...
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  • The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in December 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1940. For the sinking of Port Wellington...
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    October 1940 to 2 January 1941) and Minister of Information (December 1940 to 2 January 1941): Paul Baudouin Minister of Agriculture (December 1940 to April...
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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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  • 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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    Lehmann-Willenbrock took command in March 1942. U-96 departed Kiel on 4 December 1940 on her first patrol. Her route took her across the North Sea, through...
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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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  • The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor historical fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and...
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    World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important...
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  • Griffith   Stadium The 1940 NFL Championship Game, sometimes referred to simply as 73–0, was the eighth title game of the National Football League (NFL)...
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    East African campaign (World War II) (category Conflicts in 1940)
    Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United...
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    "Deutschland" 1 June 1936 to 1 December 1940 1 December 1940 to 1 January 1943 Commander of SS-Germania Division (mot), On 31 December 1940 SS-Germania Division...
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  • Southland". The Radio Times. 6 December 1940. "Ken Johnson and his West Indian Dance Orchestra". The Radio Times. 22 December 1940. "Ken Johnson and his West...
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    Banham, 2003, p316 "Operations in the Far East, From 17th December 1940 to 27th December 1941" (PDF). London Gazette. 38183 (20 January 1948): 573. 22...
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    Esercito), participated in World War II on the side of the Axis Powers on 1940. The Royal Italian Army notably fought at the Balkans, Western Alps, North...
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    1941. pp. 5653–5704. "No. 35025". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 December 1940. pp. 7279–7280. "No. 39387". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 November...
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    December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's...
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  • The 1940 National Football League All-star Game (December) was the professional football league's third all-star game. The game pitted the Chicago Bears...
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    Mediterranean (1940–1943). British and Allied ships were attacked by the Italian Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force) and Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1940 and from...
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    Regiment December 1940; captured December 1941 9th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery (Reg) – redesignated from 9th Heavy Regiment December 1940; captured...
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    The Blitz (category 1940 in London)
    daylight attack against London on 15 September, a large raid on 29 December 1940 against London resulting in a firestorm known as the Second Great Fire...
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    1939 Simon Seeiso Griffith: 3 August 1939 – 26 December 1940 Gabasheane Masupha (regent): 26 December 1940 – 28 January 1941 'Mantšebo Amelia 'Matšaba (regent):...
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    Catholic authorities of the institutions. The Holy See announced on 2 December 1940 that the policy was contrary to divine law and that "the direct killing...
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  • From 1939 to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The...
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  • New York. She was acquired by the US Navy on 25 October 1940 and commissioned 27 December 1940. After calling at Norfolk, Virginia Emerald arrived at Jacksonville...
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    An achievement of Cárdenas was his complete surrender of power in December 1940 to his successor, Manuel Ávila Camacho, who was a political moderate...
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  • Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers. They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940. She came from a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which...
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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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    Battle of Britain (category 1940 in the United Kingdom)
    losses from July to December 1940 were 23,002 dead and 32,138 wounded, with one of the largest single raids on 19 December 1940, in which almost 3,000...
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