World War II: Germany Invades Denmark and Norway, April 9, 1940
Date: April 9, 1940
Date: April 9, 1940
USSย Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus. Date: May 15, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 15 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Operation Alphabet Ends: Allied Evacuation from Narvik, June 8, 1940Vichy Government Established in France, July 10,…
World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement. Date: September 19, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on September 19 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Trotsky…
The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. Date: August 30, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on August 30 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Finland’s Deadliest Train Accident in Turenki Kills 39, Injures 69, March…
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Date: May 6, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 6 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Italy Begins Unsuccessful Invasion of France, June 21, 1940Mongolian People’s Revolutionary…
The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. Date: February 7, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on February 7 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben Discover Carbon-14 – February 27, 1940German Luftwaffe Begins Blitz Bombing London…
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. Date: May 24, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 24 ๐ Events on this day in 1940 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 1940French Armistice with Nazi Germany Takes Effect, June 25, 1940HMS Jervis Bay Sunk by Admiral Scheer,…