• 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 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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  • Events from the year 1940 in Denmark. Monarch – Christian X Prime minister – Thorvald Stauning 9 April – Operation Weserübung takes place, beginning 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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  • Events in the year 1940 in Portugal. President: Óscar Carmona Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar Portuguese Mathematical Society founded Portuguese...
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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 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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