Date: June 22, 1940
World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. Date: June 17, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 17 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Germany…
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. Date: April 7, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Romania Cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to Soviet…
World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia. Date: August 5, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 5 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1940World War II Norway Debate Begins, Chamberlain Replaced by Churchill May 7, 1940World War II: Germany…
Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Date: March 12, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party Elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal…
Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden. Date: March 3, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 3 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Lahore Resolution Proposed at All-India Muslim…
Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. Date: May 24, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 24 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today) More…