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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Kuldeep Singh Kang (10 December 1940 – 22 October 2020), better known as K. Deep, was an Indian singer of Punjabi-language folk songs and duets. He sang...
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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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    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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    "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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  • June 1940 – May 1943 Western Desert campaign: June 1940 – February 1943 Italian invasion of Egypt: September 1940 Operation Compass: December 1940 – February...
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  • The August Offer was an offer made by Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in 1940 promising the expansion of the Viceroy's Executive Council to include more Indians...
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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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    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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    in the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940 and in the defense of the Nibeiwa Camp in December 1940 during Operation Compass. In addition to 2,500...
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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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    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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    World War II (category Conflicts in 1940)
    any direct military intervention in the conflict well into 1941. In December 1940, Roosevelt accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out any...
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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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  • Oberleutnant von Werra was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 14 December 1940. His story was told in the book The One That Got Away by Kendall Burt...
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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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    This is a timeline of World War II events that took place in 1940, the first full year of the second global war of the 20th century. 1 January: 10,000...
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    forces to place guards at his Paris and Riviera homes; they did so. In December 1940, Edward gave Fulton Oursler of Liberty magazine an interview at Government...
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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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  • 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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    E-boat (section 1940 orders)
    Group in 1940. Built from 1937 onwards. Two new boats were ordered on 21 December 1936 (S18 and S19) and six more boats (S20 to S25) on 29 December 1937....
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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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