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March 1, 1940 (Friday) In Germany, the second stop of U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles ' fact-finding mission, he met with Joachim von Ribbentrop and listened to him speak almost non-stop for two hours. Welles came away thinking that Ribbentrop had a "completely closed mind" that was "also a very stupid mind."
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
Civil rights activism. Nickname (s) "Bennie"; "Buck Bennie". Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin ...
Number ones. Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
The first RAF raid on the interior of Germany took place on 19 March 1940 at Hörnum. [7] On the night of 10–11 May 1940 the RAF bombed Dortmund. [8] The Jules Verne, a variant of the Farman F.220 of the French Naval Aviation, was the first Allied bomber to raid Berlin. On the night of 7 June 1940, it dropped eight bombs of 250 kg and eighty ...
Winter War. The Winter War[ F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and ...
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE ... March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
September 7, 1939. The first convoys sail outbound from the British Isles: OA from the English Channel, OB from Liverpool, and OG to Gibraltar. [ 2] September 14, 1939. The first of the SL convoys sails from Freetown. [ 2] U-39 attacks the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, but fails to cause any damage.