1940

1940 في التقاويم الأخرى
التقويم الگريگوري	1940; MCMXL
آب أوربه كونديتا	2693
التقويم الأرمني	1389; ԹՎ ՌՅՁԹ
التقويم الآشوري	6690
التقويم البهائي	96–97
التقويم البنغالي	1347
التقويم الأمازيغي	2890
سنة العهد البريطاني	4 جو. 6 – 5 جو. 6
التقويم البوذي	2484
التقويم البورمي	1302
التقويم البيزنطي	7448–7449
التقويم الصيني	己卯年 (التراب الأرنب); 4636 أو 4576; — إلى —; 庚辰年 (المعدن التنين); 4637 أو 4577
التقويم القبطي	1656–1657
التقويم الديسكوردي	3106
التقويم الإثيوپي	1932–1933
التقويم العبري	5700–5701
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	1996–1997
- شاكا سامڤات	1862–1863
- كالي يوگا	5041–5042
تقويم الهولوسين	11940
تقويم الإگبو	940–941
التقويم الإيراني	1318–1319
التقويم الهجري	1358–1359
التقويم الياباني	Shōwa 15; (昭和１５年)
تقويم جوچى	29
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4273
تقويم مينگوو	جمهورية الصين 29; 民國29年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2483
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	1940 حسب الموضوع:
	الموضوع
	علم الآثار; العمارة; الفن; الطيران; جوائز; القصص المصورة; السينما; ; الأدب (الشعر); الأرصاد الجوية; الموسيقى (الكنتري); النقل بالسكك الحديدية; الراديو; العلوم; ; ; الرياضة; التلفزيون; ;
	حسب البلد
	مصر; سوريا; العراق; فلسطين; السعودية; اليمن; الجزائر; المغرب; تونس; تركيا; إيران; إثيوپيا; أستراليا; كندا; الصين; ; الإكوادور; فرنسا; ألمانيا; اليونان; الهند; أيرلندا; ; إيطاليا; اليابان; ; الملايو; ; المكسيك; نيوزيلندا; النرويج; ; ; ; فلسطين الانتداب; الفلپين; ; سنغافورة; جنوب أفريقيا; الاتحاد السوڤيتي; المملكة المتحدة; الولايات المتحدة; ;
	القادة
	الدول السيادية; قادة الدول; قادة دينيون; القانون;
	تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات
	مواليد; وفيات;
	تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات
	تأسيسات; انحلالات;
	تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات
	أعمال; أطروحات;
	v; t; e;

الألفية:	الألفية 2
القرون:	القرن 19 - القرن 20 - القرن 21
العقود:	عقد 1910 عقد 1920 عقد 1930 - عقد 1940 - عقد 1950 عقد 1960 عقد 1970
السنوات:	1937 1938 1939 - 1940 - 1941 1942 1943

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تحويل 1-1-1940م الى هجري ^{(وصلة خارجية)} | تحويل 31-12-1940م الى هجري ^{(وصلة خارجية)} | ابحث في الموسوعة عن مواضيع متعلقة بسنة 1940

1940 يناير فبراير مارس أبريل مايو يونيو يوليو أغسطس سبتمبر أكتوبر نوفمبر ديسمبر

سنة 1940 (MCMXL) كانت سنة كبيسة تبدأ يوم الاثنين (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1940 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 940 في الألفية 2، السنة 40 في القرن 20، والسنة 1st في عقد 1940.

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أحداث

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

January 4 – WWII: Axis powers: Luftwaffe Colonel Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.
January 6 – WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Soviet forces.
January 8
- WWII: Winter War – Battle of Suomussalmi: The Soviet 44th Rifle Division is destroyed by Finnish forces.
- WWII: Food rationing begins in Great Britain.
9 يناير – WWII: British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس Starfish is sunk.
January 10 – WWII: Mechelen incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of Western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
January 19 – The Three Stooges short subject comedy film You Nazty Spy! is released, the first Hollywood parody of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, with Moe Howard portraying "Moe Hailstone" as the Hitler-parody lead.
26 يناير – Brisbane, Australia swelters through its hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees Celsius (109.76 Fahrenheit).
January 27 – WWII: A peace resolution introduced in the Parliament of South Africa is defeated 81–59.
January 29 – Three gasoline-powered trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.

February

February 1 – WWII: Winter War – Soviet forces launch a major assault on Finnish troops occupying the Karelian Isthmus.
February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold is executed in the Soviet Union on charges of treason and espionage. He is cleared of all charges 15 years later, in the first waves of de-Stalinization.
February 7 – Disney's Pinocchio is released in theaters everywhere.
February 9 – Mae West & W. C. Fields join comedic forces for My Little Chickadee with tremendous success. The film becomes one of the highest grossing of the year.
February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot. However it is not until 1941 that their current names are adopted.
February 16 – WWII: Altmark Incident: British destroyer إتش‌إم‌إس Cossack pursues German tanker Altmark into the neutral waters of Jøssingfjord in southwestern Norway, and frees the 290 British seamen held aboard.
February 22 – In Tibet, province of Ando, 4-year-old Tenzin Gyatso is proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama.
February 27 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
February 29 – Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

March

March 2 – Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut, in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
March 3 – In Luleå, Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of Swedish communist newspaper Norrskensflamman.
March 5 – Katyn massacre: Members of the Soviet Politburo (Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrentiy Beria) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs.
March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for the Gulf of California, on a collecting expedition.
March 12 – The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow, ending the Winter War; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.
March 18 – WWII: Axis powers: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps. After being informed by Hitler that the Germans are ready to attack in the west, Mussolini agrees to bring Italy into the war in due course.
March 21 – Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France; Paul Reynaud succeeds him.
March 23
- Pakistan Movement: The Lahore Resolution, calling for greater autonomy for what will become Pakistan in British India, is drawn up by the All-India Muslim League, during a three-day general session at Iqbal Park, Lahore.
- Truth or Consequences debuts on NBC Radio.
March 30 – WWII: Former Kuomintang member and Chinese foreign minister, Wang Jingwei, announces the creation of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing.
March 31 – WWII: Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis leaves the Wadden Sea, for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).^[1]

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April

April – Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's trusted sidekick, makes his debut in Detective Comics #38.
April 3 – WWII: Operation Weserübung: German ships set out for the invasion of Norway.
April 4 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has "missed the bus".
April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
April 8 – WWII: Operation Wilfred: The British fleet lays naval mines off the coast of neutral Norway.
April 9 – WWII: Germany invades the neutral countries of Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung, opening the Norwegian Campaign. The British Royal Navy attempts to attack elements of the German fleet off Norway. Vidkun Quisling proclaims a new collaborationist regime in Norway. The German invasion of Denmark lasts for about six hours, before that country capitulates.
April 10 – WWII: First Naval Battle of Narvik: The British Royal Navy attacks the German fleet in the Ofotfjord. At Bergen, German cruiser Königsberg is sunk by British Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua dive bombers, flying from RNAS Hatston in Orkney.
April 12
- The Faroe Islands are occupied by British troops, following the German invasion of Denmark. This action is taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, with serious consequences for the course of the Battle of the Atlantic.
- Opening day at Jamaica Race Course features the use of parimutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York. Other tracks in the state follow suit later in 1940.
April 13
- WWII: Second Naval Battle of Narvik: The British Royal Navy causes all 8 defending German destroyers in the Ofotfjord to be sunk.
- The New York Rangers win the 1940 Stanley Cup Finals in ice hockey. It will be another 54 years before their next win in 1994.
April 14 – Norwegian Campaign: The first British ground forces land in Norway, at Namsos and Harstad.
April 16 – In American baseball, the Cleveland Indians, behind Bob Feller's Opening Day no-hitter, defeat the Chicago White Sox, 1-0.
April 21 – Take It or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States, with Bob Hawk as host.
April 23 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198.

May

May 6 – The International Olympic Committee formally cancels the 1940 Summer Olympics.
May 10 – WWII:
- The Battle of France begins.
- German forces invade the Low Countries.
  - The Battle of the Netherlands begins.
  - The Battle of Belgium begins.
  - The Invasion of Luxembourg begins.
- The British invasion of Iceland begins.
- With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

May 10: Winston Churchill

May 13 – WWII:
- Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
- German armies open a 60-mile (97 km) wide breach in the Maginot Line at Sedan, France.
May 13–14 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her government are evacuated to London, using the British destroyer إتش‌إم‌إس Hereward.
May 14 – WWII:
- Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed. General Henri Winkelman announces the surrender of the Dutch army (outside Zeeland) to German forces.
- Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
May 15
- WWII: The Dutch Army formally signs a surrender document.
- The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
- Women's stockings made of nylon are first placed on sale across the United States. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.^[2]
May 16 – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million, to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
May 17 – WWII:
- Brussels falls to German forces; the Belgian government flees to Ostend.
- Zeeland is overrun by German forces, ending the Battle of the Netherlands and beginning full German occupation of the Netherlands (Noord-Beveland surrenders on May 18, and the remaining Dutch troops are withdrawn from Zeelandic Flanders on May 19).
May 18 – Marshal Philippe Pétain is named vice-premier of France.
May 19 – General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all French forces.
May 20
- WWII: German forces (2nd Panzer Division), under General Rudolf Veiel, reach Noyelles on the English Channel.
- Holocaust: The Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland, near the town of Oświęcim. From now until January 1945, around 1.1 million people will be killed here.
May 22 – WWII: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939, giving the government full control over all persons and property.
May 24 – WWII: The Anglo-French Supreme War Council decides to withdraw all forces under its control from Norway.
May 25 - The Crypt of Civilization time capsule is sealed shut, with a protected opening date of 8113 CE.
May 26
- WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force begins.
- The first free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter is made.
May 27 – WWII: Le Paradis massacre: 97 retreating British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment are executed by German troops of 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, after surrendering in France.
May 28 – WWII:
- King Leopold III of Belgium orders the Belgian forces to cease fighting, ending the 18-day Battle of Belgium. Leaders of the Belgian government on French territory declare Leopold deposed.
- Land Battle of Narvik: German forces retire, giving the Allies their first victory on land in the war; however, the British have already decided to evacuate Narvik.
- Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to "prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."
May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.

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June

June 1 – WWII: Rear Admiral Sir W. Frederic Wake-Walker's flagship, the destroyer Keith, is sunk by Stukas at Dunkirk.^[3]
June 3
- WWII: Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.
- The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.
- The Weather Bureau is transferred to the United States Department of Commerce.
June 4 – WWII:
- The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British and French navies, together with large numbers of civilian vessels from various nations, complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk, France to England.
- Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."
June 7
- Cartoon character Daisy Duck debuts, in Mr. Duck Steps Out.
- King Haakon VII of Norway and his government are evacuated from Tromsø to London, on HMS Devonshire.^[4]
June 9 – WWII: The British Commandos are created.
June 10
- WWII:
  - Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
  - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back"^{[dead link]} speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
  - Canada declares war on Italy.
  - The Norwegian Army surrenders to German forces.
  - The French government flees to Tours.
- Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey dies of a stroke in London.
June 11 – WWII: The Western Desert Campaign opens, with British forces crossing the Frontier Wire into Italian Libya.
June 12 – WWII: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major-General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
June 13 – WWII: Paris is declared an open city.
June 14 – WWII:
- The French government flees to Bordeaux, and Paris falls under German occupation.
- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
- A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
June 15 – WWII:
- The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania.
- Verdun falls to German forces.
June 16
- The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.
- The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time, in Sturgis, South Dakota.
June 17 – WWII:
- Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France, and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.
- Occupation of the Baltic states: The Soviet Union occupies Estonia and Latvia.
- Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
- RMS Lancastria, serving as a troopship, is bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft, while evacuating British troops and nationals from Saint-Nazaire in France, with the loss of at least 4,000 lives, the largest single UK loss in any World War II event, immediate news of which is suppressed in the British press.^[5]^[6] Destroyer إتش‌إم‌إس Beagle (H30) rescues around 600.
June 18 – WWII:
- Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom: "The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."
- Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London, rallying the French Resistance, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war".
June 20 – WWII: Evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands to England begins.^[7]
June 22
- WWII: Second Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice, ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne, in the same Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to conclude the Armistice with Germany in 1918. This divides France into a Zone occupée in the north and west, under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany), and a southern Zone libre, Vichy France.
- Albert Einstein gives a public address in the "I'm An American" series, on becoming an American citizen.
June 23 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris, in now-occupied France.^[8]
June 24
- WWII:
  - Hitler issues Der Halte Befehl, a stop order preventing his Panzer divisions advancing on Dunkirk.
  - Vichy France signs armistice terms with Italy.
- United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia, and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.
June 25 – WWII: After the defeat of France, Hitler plans for an invasion of Switzerland, known as Operation Tannenbaum.
June 26 – Soviet calendar: The Soviet Union reverts to a seven-day week for all purposes.
June 28
- General Charles de Gaulle is officially recognized by Britain as the "Leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be."
- Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, after an ultimatum.
June 30
- WWII: German forces land in Guernsey, marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.
- Federal government of the United States reorganisation:
  - The Civil Aeronautics Administration is placed under the Department of Commerce.
  - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is placed under the Federal Security Agency.
  - The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is placed under the Department of the Interior.

July

July 1 – The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8-foot (2.4 m) girder and 190 feet (58 m) above the water, as the third longest suspension bridge in the world.
July 2 – WWII: British-owned إس‌إس Arandora Star, carrying civilian internees and POWs of Italian and German origin from Liverpool to Canada, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine الغواصة الألمانية U-47 off northwest Ireland, with the loss of around 865 lives.
July 3 – WWII: Attack on Mers-el-Kébir: British naval units sink or seize ships of the French fleet anchored in the Algerian ports of Mers-el-Kebir and Oran, to prevent them from falling into German hands. The following day, Vichy France breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.
July 6
- Story Bridge opens in Brisbane.
- WWII: British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس Shark is sunk.
July 10 – WWII: The Battle of Britain begins.
July 11
- WWII: British destroyer إتش‌إم‌إس Escort is torpedoed and sunk by an Italian submarine.
- WWII: Vichy France begins with a constitutional law which only 80 members of the parliament vote against. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
July 14 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: "We shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy. We shall ask none."
July 15 – U.S. politics: The Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.
July 19
- WWII: Battle of Cape Spada: إتش‌إم‌إيه‌إس Sydney and five destroyers sink the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni.
- WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain, in an address to the Reichstag. Lord Halifax, the British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.
July 21
- After rigged parliamentary elections in the three occupied countries on July 14–15, the parliaments proclaim the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics.
- The Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft enters service, so named as 1940 roughly corresponds to the year 2600 on the Japanese Imperial calendar.
July 23 – Welles Declaration: United States Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles announces that the U.S. will not accord diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union's occupation of the Baltic states.
July 25 – General Henri Guisan addresses the officer corps of the Swiss army at Rütli, resolving to resist any invasion of the country.
July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare. However, it is not until 1941 that his name is adopted.

August

August 1 – WWII: British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس Spearfish is sunk in the English Channel, by what is much later discovered to be a mine.
August 3 – The Lithuanian SSR is annexed into the Soviet Union, followed by the Latvian SSR on August 5 and the Estonian SSR August 6, just seven weeks after their occupation.
August 3–19 – WWII: The Italian conquest of British Somaliland is completed.
August 4 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
August 8 – WWII: German general Wilhelm Keitel signs the "Aufbau Ost" directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.
August 10 – WWII: British armed merchant cruiser إتش‌إم‌إس Transylvania is torpedoed off Malin Head, Ireland, by German submarine U-56.
August 13 – WWII: The Adlertag ("Eagle Day") strike on southern England occurs, starting the rapid escalation of the Battle of Britain air offensive of the Luftwaffe against RAF Fighter Command.
August 15 – Italy, without having declared war on Greece, sinks the Greek boat Elli (Έλλη).
August 18
- WWII: "The Hardest Day" in the Battle of Britain: Both sides lose more aircraft combined on this day than at any other point during the campaign, without the Luftwaffe achieving dominance over RAF Fighter Command.
- HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, is installed as Governor of the Bahamas.^[9]
August 20
- WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to the Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.
August 21 – Leon Trotsky dies of the injuries he has sustained.
August 24 – Howard Florey, and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley, at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin. They have also purified the drug.^[10]^[11]
August 25 – WWII: The first Bombing of Berlin is carried out, by the British Royal Air Force.
August 26 – WWII: Chad is the first French colony to proclaim its support for the Allies.
August 30 – Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy compel Romania to cede half of Transylvania to Hungary.

September

September – The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division (previously a National Guard Division in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma), is activated and ordered into federal service for 1 year, to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana, prior to serving in WWII.
September 2 – WWII: The Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and Great Britain is announced, to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, the United States gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
September 4 – WWII: In Berlin, Adolf Hitler declares in a speech that Nazi Germany will avenge all night air raids carried out by Great Britain.
September 5 – WWII: Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Komet enters the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait, after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the North Sea, with the help of Soviet icebreakers Lenin, Stalin, and Kaganovich.^[12]
September 6 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates, and is succeeded by his son Michael.
September 7
- Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.
- WWII: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing).
September 9–16 – WWII: The Italian invasion of Egypt commences from Libya, progressing only as far as Sidi Barrani.
September 9
- Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts at ethnic cleansing.
- George Stibitz first demonstrates the remote operation of a computer, in the United States.
September 12
- In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals, and date to the Stone Age.
- The Hercules Munitions Plant in Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
September 14 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts at ethnic cleansing.
September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
September 17–18 – WWII: إس‌إس City of Benares is torpedoed by الغواصة الألمانية U-48 in the Atlantic, with the loss of 248 of the 406 on board, including child evacuees bound for Canada. This results in cancellation of the British Children's Overseas Reception Board's plan to relocate children overseas.
September 21 – Australian federal election, 1940: Robert Menzies' UAP/Country Coalition Government is re-elected as a minority government, narrowly defeating the Labor Party led by John Curtin. It is the last federal election to result in a minority government until 2010.
September 22 – Japan enters French Indochina: An agreement is signed in which Japan promises to station no more than 6,000 troops there, and never have more than 25,000 transiting the colony. Rights are also given for 3 airfields.
September 25 – Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany: German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven appoints a provisional council of state from the pro-Nazi Nasjonal Samling party, under Vidkun Quisling, as a puppet government for Norway.
September 26 – A group of Japanese officers, in violation of an agreement signed 4 days earlier with French Indochina, take Đồng Đăng and Lam Sơn, with 40 Franco-Vietnamese troops killed and around 1,000 deserting. The same day the United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
September 27 – WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
September 30 (night to 1 October) – Arsonists from the Hitler Youth destroy the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg.

October

October 1 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the United States' first long-distance controlled-access highway, is opened.
October 11 – Portuguese-born performer Carmen Miranda makes her American film debut in Down Argentine Way, one of the first films produced to promote the Good Neighbor policy.
October 14 – The Balham tube station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
October 15 – Charlie Chaplin releases his controversial wartime satire The Great Dictator, nine months after the Stooges' You Nazty Spy!.
October 16
- The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.
- Nazi Governor-General Hans Frank establishes the Warsaw Ghetto.
October 18–19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective "wolfpack" of the war, including U-boat aces Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke.
October 26–28 – WWII: RMS Empress of Britain, serving as a troopship under the British flag, is bombed, torpedoed and sunk off the Donegal coast, with the loss of 45 lives. At 42,348 GRT, she is the war's largest merchant ship loss.
October 28 – WWII: Italian troops invade Greece, meeting strong resistance from Greek troops and civilians. This action signals the beginning of the Balkan Campaign.
October 29 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..

November

November – In Cambodia, the Khmer Issarak is formed to overthrow the French Army within the nation.
November 2–8 – WWII (Greco-Italian War): Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in Epirus: Outnumbered Greek forces repel the Italian Army.
November 2 – German submarine U-69 is commissioned, the first Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which will become its most numerous class, with 568 commissioned during the War.
November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie, and becomes the United States' first and only third-term president.
November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None is published in book form, in the United States.
November 7 – In Tacoma, Washington, the 600-foot (180 m)-long center span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (known as Galloping Gertie) collapses.
November 8 – WWII: إم‌إس City of Rayville is sunk by a naval mine off Cape Otway, Australia (the first United States Merchant Marine loss of the war).
November 9 – Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez premieres in Barcelona, Spain.
November 10 – 1940 Vrancea earthquake: An earthquake in Romania kills 1,000.
November 11
- WWII: The British Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto Naval Base.
- WWII: German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail intended for the British Far East Command from the إس‌إس Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
- Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the Midwestern United States.
November 13 – Walt Disney's Fantasia is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
November 14 – WWII: Coventry Blitz: The city centre of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 Luftwaffe bombers; 150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed.
November 15 – Abbott and Costello make their film debut, in One Night in the Tropics.
November 16
- WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks).
- An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended).
- The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is founded.
November 18 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet, to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
November 20 – WWII: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis powers.
November 25
- Patria disaster: As British authorities attempt to deport Jewish refugees (originating from German-occupied Europe) from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius, aboard the requisitioned emigrant liner إس‌إس Patria at Haifa, the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah sinks the ship with a bomb, killing around 250 refugees and crew.
- The de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder military aircraft both make their first flights.
- Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short, Knock Knock. It is not until 1941 that his current name is adopted.
November 26–27 – Jilava Massacre: In Romania, coup leader General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, starting at a penitentiary near Bucharest. Among the dead is former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga.
November 27 – WWII: Battle of Cape Spartivento: The British Royal Navy and Italian Regia Marina battle to a draw.

December

December – Timely Comics' Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941), first appearance of Captain America and Bucky, hits newsstands in the United States.
December 1 – Manuel Ávila Camacho takes office, as President of Mexico.
December 6 – British submarine إتش‌إم‌إس Regulus is sunk near Taranto.
December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
December 9 – WWII: Operation Compass – British forces in North Africa begin their first major offensive, with an attack on Italian forces at Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
December 12 and December 15 – WWII: Sheffield Blitz ("Operation Crucible"): The Yorkshire city of Sheffield is badly damaged by German air-raids.
December 14
- WWII British destroyers إتش‌إم‌إس Hereward and إتش‌إم‌إس Hyperion sink an Italian submarine off Bardia.
- Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish based on Malta bomb Tripoli.
- Plutonium is first synthesized in the laboratory, by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan, at the University of California, Berkeley.
December 16 – WWII: Operation Abigail Rachel: The RAF bombs Mannheim.
December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain, that will become known as Lend-Lease.
December 23 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the people of Italy, blames Benito Mussolini for leading his nation to war against the British, contrary to Italy's historic friendship with them: "One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians."
December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader, writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler, addressing him as "My friend", and requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
December 29
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."
- WWII: Second Great Fire of London": The Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1,500 fires. Many famous buildings, including the Guildhall and Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed.
December 30
- California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).
- In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.

Undated

In Korea, the Hunminjeongeum (1446) is discovered, explaining the basis of the Hangul alphabet.
American historian Arthur Marder publishes The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905.
Walter Knott begins construction of a California ghost town replica, which will soon evolve into Knott's Berry Farm.

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يناير

2 يناير
- Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor, director (ت. 2018)
- Jim Bakker, American televangelist, ex-husband of Tammy Faye
January 3 – Leo de Berardinis, Italian stage actor, theatre director (ت. 2008)
January 4
- Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 – Penny Lernoux, American nun, author (ت. 1989)
9 يناير – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
January 14 – Julian Bond, African-American civil rights activist (ت. 2015)
January 16 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
January 17
- Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
- Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay
- Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (ت. 2015)
January 18
- Tony Holland, British actor, television screenwriter (ت. 2007)
January 19
- Mike Reid, English actor (ت. 2007)
- Linda Sorenson, Canadian actress
January 20 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater
January 21
- Jeremy Jacobs, American businessman
- Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (ت. 2017)
January 23 – Jimmy Castor, African-American funk, R&B, and soul saxophonist (ت. 2012)
January 24 – Joachim Gauck, German president
January 27 – James Cromwell, American actor
January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman