1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 195 extended east from Branchville to Boykins over part of State Route 32.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 207 was truncated to Bowling Green. North of there was renumbered as State Route 301  (a placeholder for the extension of US 301).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
The section of State Route 234 from Purcellville to Maryland was renumbered as part of the new State Route 17. State Route 234 was instead realigned northwest, replacing former SR 734 from Aldie to Bluemont, and former State Route 245 from Bluemont to State Route 7.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 238 was renumbered as State Route 9 to match West Virginia Route 9. State Route 238 was used on former State Route 170.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 242 was extended south from Flint Hill along former State Route 49 to Culpeper.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 245, from State Route 7 to Bluemont, was renumbered as part of State Route 234, and State Route 245 was used on former State Route 120.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
U.S. Route 258 was created in Virginia, replacing the section of U.S. Route 158 (which was rerouted so that it no longer goes through Virginia) northeast of Murfreesboro in Virginia, and State Route 158 was renumbered as State Route 258 to match the highway number (which became part of US 258 in 1945). As a result, State Route 258 was renumbered as State Route 158.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 259 was extended over State Route 275 from West Virginia to Gore to match West Virginia Route 259 (which replaced West Virginia Route 58).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 261 was renumbered as State Route 59 to match West Virginia Route 59, and State Route 261 was reassigned on a former portion of State Route 3.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 271 was renumbered as State Route 84 to match West Virginia Route 84, and State Route 271 was used on former State Route 160.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 275, from West Virginia to Gore, was renumbered as an extended State Route 259 to match West Virginia Route 259.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 301, which had not existed immediately prior to 1940, was assigned as a placeholder for the extension of U.S. Route 301 into Virginia, following U.S. Route 1 from Petersburg to Richmond, State Route 2 from Richmond to Bowling Green, and State Route 207 from Bowling Green to Maryland to match Maryland Route 301.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 305, from Damascus to Mouth of Wilson, was eliminated and transferred to a rerouted US 58.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 320, which had not existed immediately prior to 1940, was assigned as a renumbering of State Route 123.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 501, an extension of US 501, was renumbered as State Route 39 to match West Virginia Route 39; the original plans had this staying 501, but West Virginia was "not... able to change location of Rt. 501 through their State."


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 522, which had not existed immediately prior to 1940, was assigned as a placeholder for the extension of U.S. Route 522 into Virginia, replacing part of State Route 7 from West Virginia to Winchester, part of State Route 3 from Winchester to Sperryville, and part of State Route 49 from Culpeper to Powhatan to match West Virginia.


1940 Volta a Catalunya
The 1940 Volta a Catalunya was the 20th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 4 May to 12 May 1940. The race started and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Christophe Didier.


1940 Vrancea earthquake
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, (Romanian: Cutremurul din 1940) occurred on Sunday, 10 November 1940, in Romania, at 03:39 (local time), when the majority of the population was at home.


1940 Vrancea earthquake
The 1940 earthquake registered a magnitude of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale, being the strongest earthquake recorded in the 20th century in Romania. Its epicenter lay in the Vrancea zone at a depth of about 133 km. The area of maximum intensity for this earthquake was 80,000 km2 and macroseismic effects were felt over an area of more than 2,000,000 km2.


1940 Vrancea earthquake
Effects were reported to the north as far away as Saint Petersburg, over 1,300 km away, with estimated seismic intensities of IV–V (MCS degrees), to the south, as far as Greece, to the east, up to the Kharkov–Moscow line, with estimated intensities of V–VI (MCS degrees), in the west, as far as Belgrade, Budapest and Warsaw.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Tectonic setting
Vrancea lies within the Carpathian Mountains, which were formed as part of the Alpine Orogeny. The convergence across this zone stopped about 20 million years ago, but the area remains seismically active. The earthquakes have  reverse fault focal mechanisms and define a southwest–northeast trending zone about 70 km long by 30 km across. The depth range of the earthquakes extends from 60 km down to about 200 km. Seismic tomography studies show that the area is underlain by a body with a high seismic velocity.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Tectonic setting
There are two models available to explain these observations, a detached subducting slab and delamination of the lower crust. The near vertical geometry of the high-velocity body combined with the focal mechanisms are consistent with extension along the body. Combined with the lack of a clear planar zone of seismicity that would be expected for a subducting slab, this is consistent with some form of delamination.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Background
1940 was characterized by a very high seismic activity in Vrancea. In the first months of 1940 there were earthquakes of magnitude 4.5–5 that occurred at depths of 130–160 km. On 24 June, there was an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 at a depth of 115 km, scarcely felt in Wallachia and Moldavia. There followed a period of relative calmness until 3 October, when an earthquake of magnitude 4.7–5.0 occurred at a depth of 150 km.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Background
On the evening of 21 October, there were many earthquakes, of which the most important took place around midnight at a depth of 100 km (M=4.5). On the morning of 22 October, at 08:37, a stronger earthquake occurred in Vrancea, of magnitude 6.5 and maximum intensity of VII on the Mercalli intensity scale, at a depth of 122–125 km; this quake was strongly felt, especially in Wallachia and Moldavia. Only light damage, for example, cracks in walls and broken windows, was reported, but no casualties. This earthquake did not have immediate after shocks.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Background
At the beginning of November there were, however, several earthquakes over 4.0 at about 140–150 km depth. On 8 November, at about 14:00, less than two days before the catastrophic earthquake, there was another earthquake of magnitude 5.5 at a depth of 145 km, which was also felt in Bucharest. A day later, in the afternoon of 9 November there were several weak and local earthquakes, around the town of Panciu, movements which passed almost unnoticed by the population (II–III degrees on the Mercalli intensity scale).


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
The earthquake was felt in Bucharest, where 267 people were killed in the collapse of Carlton Bloc, a 14-story reinforced concrete structure, the tallest building in the city at the time. After the earthquake, the basement was engulfed in flames which hampered the intervention of rescue teams. Almost all ceilings of the concert halls collapsed. The American Embassy, the Post's hotel, the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and that of the General Staff were reported destroyed. According to the documents of the National Firefighters Museum, 185 buildings completely collapsed in Bucharest, and another 412 were seriously damaged.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
The Romanian General Association of Engineers undertook a detailed study of earthquake effects on reinforced concrete buildings. The main conclusion was that the guidelines used for constructing reinforced concrete buildings, did not take into account possible seismic movement. Following the study, new rules were developed and applied to all postwar buildings.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
Focșani, a city 150 kilometres (93 mi) northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Panciu was destroyed in 90%, although most of the buildings were made of wood, while the number of casualties is uncertain (22 to 62 deaths, 54 to 300 injured); Galați, the site of the German submarine base, also suffered severely; and Giurgiu, the principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories completely destroyed. In Câmpina, a densely populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a sticky and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploiești, a few field fires broke out, but were later reported extinguished. In Chișinău were reported 78 deaths and 2,795 affected buildings, of which 172 destroyed.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage
The earthquake also caused significant morphological effects in the earth's crust, especially in the sub-Carpathian regions of Wallachia and Moldavia; these effects manifested by landslides, fissures, settlements, formation of cracks in the surface layers of the crust, water spurting from cracks formed alongside rivers. According to recorded testimonies, luminous phenomena were observed, both in the epicentral area and in regions that are far away from the epicenter.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage, Controversial death toll
Initial dispatches, reported casualties that were based on sketchy evidence, however on the second day official reports gave 267 killed and 476 injured all over the country until the evening of 10 November.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage, Controversial death toll
After the emergency response phase, Tillotson (1940) gave many details of the effects of the earthquake around the country and said that due to telecommunications still interrupted a conservative estimate would place the casualties at 400 killed and 800 severely injured in Romania, with more than 150 killed in Bucharest where 30 or more were still trapped under the debris of Carlton and more than one thousand badly damaged houses had to be evacuated. Time magazine (1940) said that about 98 bodies were extricated from under Carlton debris, while there were 357 killed and thousands injured in all the country.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage, Controversial death toll
In 1982, the published memoirs of the vice-premier of Romania at the time of the event, indicated 593 killed and 1,271 injured in all the country, and in Bucharest 140 killed from the 226 occupants of Carlton block, with another 300 injured in the city. The rest of the country's casualties were mostly in masonry buildings. Near the epicenter, the city of Focșani and the town of Panciu were heavily damaged and many lives were lost. The cities of Galați and Ploiești were seriously affected, as was the region of Muntenia.


1940 Vrancea earthquake, Damage, Controversial death toll
In a research conducted by the National Research and Development Institute URBAN-INCERC, the death toll stands at 593, while 1,271 were injured.


1940 WANFL season
The 1940 WANFL season was the 56th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League. It saw Claremont win its third consecutive premiership, but its last before returning to the status of cellar-dweller it occupied during its first decade in the WA(N)FL – between 1943 and 1978 Claremont played finals only five times for one premiership. South Fremantle, after a lean period in the middle 1930s, displaced perennial power clubs East Fremantle and East Perth as the Tigers’ Grand Final opponent, and established some of the basis, in spite of three disastrous wartime under-age seasons, for the club's fabled dynasty after the war.


1940 WANFL season
The season was severely affected by World War II, which claimed numerous players from all clubs and limited the availability of others, and also a dispute with the Perth City Council over charges for the rental of Leederville and Perth Ovals, which were not resolved fully before the season.


1940 WANFL season
Consequently, East Perth and West Perth were forced to play home games at either the WACA or Subiaco Oval; however this did not affect their performance and the Cardinals, with young players like Bill Baker, “Spike” Pola and “Pops” Heal coming of age, improved from one win in 1939 to eleven this season – and would have done better but for appendicitis ending Ted Tyson’s football after June.


1940 WANFL season
Swan Districts, affected by the retirement of early stalwarts Jim Ditchburn and George Krepp, the loss early in the season of Jack Murray, and the recruitment of numerous players to the services, suffered despite the return of champion spearhead Holdsworth who was third in the goalkicking with 73 its first wooden spoon with only two wins. More surprisingly Perth – who had looked the previous season to be emerging from twenty years in the doldrums – could not replace captain-coach Austin Robertson and lost all but one of its final thirteen games for its worst record since 1923.


1940 WANFL season
Notable highlights included the first double-century score in Perth senior football and two record comebacks over the final three quarters.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1
Aided by a late clearance for Keith Shea from Subiaco, South Fremantle win a thrilling high-scoring derby.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 3
After kicking an amazing 3.22 (40) to three-quarter time in favourable conditions, South Fremantle kick 6.2 (38) to overpower the dual-premiership Tigers.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 6
With rover Truscott scoring ten goals, South Fremantle demoralise the improving Cardinals in the final quarter after being behind all afternoon, scoring 8.10 (58) to 1.0 (6).


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7
South Fremantle set a record by winning from a quarter-time deficit of 45 points, to be broken later in the season.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 8
A missed shot on the siren from an acute angle by Johnny Compton denies Claremont a draw after trailing all day.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10
Despite losing Reid and having key strongman Compton carrying an injury, Claremont produce a superlative display against South Fremantle, with Heusler and Sutherland detracting the play and O‘Neill dominant at centre half-back.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 11
With George Moloney kicking thirteen goals, Claremont record the biggest win with fewer scoring shots in the WANFL until 1969.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
With Holdsworth and Clem Rosewarne reaching their best form for the first time and combining for fourteen goals, Swan Districts win their second and last match for 1940.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 15 (Foundation Day)
East Fremantle’s ability to keep the play crowded ensures Claremont cannot play its normal running game and results in an impressive win for Old Easts.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 19
Moloney kicks his hundredth goal (having already done so for Geelong in 1932) as Claremont all but wrap up the double chance with a certain win against Perth in the last round.


1940 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20
In winning after Perth lead by 47 points at quarter-time, Claremont surpass South Fremantle’s record from earlier in the season to hold the double chance in the wake of East Fremantle’s win over East Perth.


1940 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final
In a battle of defences affected by rain after quarter-time, East Perth spend the last three minutes deep in attack but fail to kick the winning goal.


1940 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final
Remarkably pacy and precise play in the second quarter, scoring 9.7 (61) to 1.3 (9), puts South Fremantle into its first Grand Final since 1930 and makes it favourite for its first premiership in twenty-three seasons.


1940 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
Kicking 14.10 (94) to 2.8 (20), Claremont produce a remarkable second-half rally to enter their fifth consecutive Grand Final.


1940 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Superior forward play ensures Claremont wins its third consecutive premiership after a hard-fought struggle.


1940 WANFL season, Notes
As of 2014, Perth have never drawn any senior WA(N)FL match with either Subiaco or South Fremantle.


1940 Waipawa by-election
The Waipawa by-election of 1940 was a by-election for the electorate of Waipawa held on 16 November 1940 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Albert Jull on 24 September 1940.


1940 Waipawa by-election, Background
The by-election was won by Cyril Harker, also of the National Party. The rural seat was usually safe for non-Labour parties, but in the 1935 general election had been won by Max Christie of the Labour Party Christie lost the seat to the former holder Albert Jull in the 1938 general election.


1940 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1940 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1940 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Peahead Walker, the team compiled a 7–3 record and finished in third place in the Southern Conference.


1940 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
Wake Forest back Tony Gallovich was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team player on the 1940 All-Southern Conference football team.


1940 Wandsworth Central by-election
The Wandsworth Central by-election of 1940 was held on 22 June 1940. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Labour MP, Harry Nathan, in order to find a seat for the trade union leader and recently appointed Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin, who ran as a member of the Labour Party. Bevin was elected unopposed.


1940 Wansbeck by-election
The Wansbeck by-election, 1940 was a by-election held in England on 22 July 1940 for the House of Commons constituency of Wansbeck in Northumberland.


1940 Wansbeck by-election, Vacancy
The seat became vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Bernard Cruddas resigned from the House of Commons on 12 July 1940. He had held the seat since the 1931 general election.


1940 Wansbeck by-election, Results
The Conservative candidate, Robert Scott, was returned unopposed. He represented the constituency until his defeat at the 1945 general election.


1940 Washington Huskies football team
The 1940 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1940 college football season. In its 11th season under head coach Jimmy Phelan, the team compiled a 7–2 record, finished in second place in the Pacific Coast Conference, was ranked #10 in the final AP Poll, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 169 to 54. The Huskies' only two losses came to Minnesota and Stanford teams that were ranked #1 and #2, respectively, in the final AP Poll. Bill Marx was the team captain.


1940 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
Three University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1941 NFL Draft, which lasted 22 rounds with 204 selections.


1940 Washington Redskins season
The 1940 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 9th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 4th in Washington, D.C. The team improved on their 6–3–2 record from 1939, finishing at 9–2. They would end the season by losing the NFL Championship to the Chicago Bears, 73–0.


1940 Washington Redskins season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1940 Washington Redskins season, Standings
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1940 Washington Senators season
The 1940 Washington Senators won 64 games, lost 90, and finished in seventh place in the American League. They were managed by Bucky Harris and played home games at Griffith Stadium.


1940 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1940 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1940 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1940 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1940 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1940 Washington Senators season, Farm system
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: OrlandoNewport (TN) club played in Maryville (TN), July 31 to August 11, 1940; Shelby club folded, July 19


1940 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1940 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College during the 1940 college football season. Fifteenth-year head coach Babe Hollingbery led the team to a 3–4–2 mark in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) and 4–4–2 overall.


1940 Washington State Cougars football team
The Cougars played their three home games, all in October, on campus at Rogers Field in Pullman, Washington. Two road games were played nearby, in Moscow and Spokane.


1940 Washington gubernatorial election
The 1940 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Republican nominee Arthur B. Langlie defeated Democratic nominee Clarence Dill with 50.24% of the vote.


1940 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1940 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 40th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1940 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 8 December 1940, Mount Sion won the championship after a 6-05 to 3-02 defeat of Dungarvan in a replay of the final. This was their third ever championship title and their third title in succession.


1940 Wayne Tartars football team
The 1940 Wayne Tartars football team represented Wayne University (later renamed Wayne State University) as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their ninth year under head coach Joe Gembis, the Tartars compiled a 4–1–3 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 79 to 69.


1940 West North Temple station
1940 West North Temple is a light rail station in Salt Lake City, Utah serviced by the Green Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system. The Green Line provides service from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City), and connects with the rest of the TRAX system, as well as UTA's FrontRunner commuter rail and S Line streetcar.


1940 West North Temple station, Description
As the station's name indicates, it is located at 1940 West North Temple Street, with the island platform in the median of the street. (It is one of only small number of TRAX stations that do not have designated name other than its approximate address.) Unlike many TRAX stations, 1940 West North Temple does not have a Park and Ride lot. Like many other UTA stations, this station has art work included in its design. The art work for the 1940 W North Temple station was designed to "mirror the wetlands and wildlife that exist throughout the Salt Lake Valley".


1940 West North Temple station, Description
It is called Spatial Perception and was designed by Shawn Porter of Salt Lake City. The station is part of a railway right of way that was created specifically for the Green Line. The station opened on April 14, 2013, and is operated by the Utah Transit Authority. It is also one of four TRAX stations (all of which are located the north end of the Green Line) that is powered by solar panels located on top of the station's canopy through a project which was initially funded in part by Rocky Mountain Power.


1940 West North Temple station, Description
All of UTA's TRAX and FrontRunner trains and stations, streetcars and streetcar stops, and all fixed route buses are compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act and are therefore accessible to those with disabilities. Signage at the stations, on the passenger platforms, and on the trains clearly indicate accessibility options. In accordance with the Utah Clean Air Act and UTA ordinance, "smoking is prohibited on UTA vehicles as well as UTA bus stops, TRAX stations, and FrontRunner stations".


1940 West North Temple station, Train schedule
On weekdays the first northbound Green Line train to the next station (the Airport Station) leaves the 1940 West North Temple Station at about 5:30 am and the first southbound train (to the West Valley Central Station) leaves at about 6:00 am. The last northbound train leaves at 11:14 pm and the last southbound train leaves at 11:33 pm. However, the last southbound train only goes as far south as the Central Pointe Station; the last southbound train to the West Valley Station leaves at 10:48 pm.


1940 West North Temple station, Train schedule
On Saturdays the first northbound train leaves at about 6:15 am and the first southbound train leaves at about 6:45 am. The last northbound train leaves at 10:59 pm and the last southbound train leaving at 11:22 pm.


1940 West North Temple station, Train schedule
On Sundays the first northbound train leaves at about 9:30 am and the first southbound train leaves at about 9:15 am. The last northbound train leaves at 7:39 pm and the last southbound train leaves at 8:02 pm.


1940 West North Temple station, Train schedule
Green Line trains run every fifteen minutes on weekdays and every twenty minutes on weekends.


1940 West North Temple station, Bus connections
Bus routes are current as of Change Day, 17 August 2014.


1940 West Tennessee State Tigers football team
The 1940 West Tennessee State Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the West Tennessee State Teachers College (now known as the University of Memphis) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1940 college football season. In their second season under head coach Cecil C. Humphreys, Memphis State compiled a 5–5 record.


1940 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1940 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Kern, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 127 to 94. The team played its home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. John Shonk was the team captain.


1940 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 1940 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1940, to elect the governor of West Virginia.


1940 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1940 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College in the 1940 college football season. The team was coached by Gander Terry. Howard "Tip" Downing, Vernon Dulaney, Johnny Taylor, and Leslie Van Meter were named to the All-Kentucky Team.


1940 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Schedule
September, 28 at Bradley Won 13-0 October, 5 Presbyterian Won 26-7 October, 11 at Louisiana Tech Lost 6-7 October, 19 Tennessee Tech Won 6-0 October, 26 Middle Tennessee Won 13-0 November, 2 Western Michigan  Won 25-6 Homecoming November, 9 at Morehead State Tied 0-0 November, 16 Austin Peay Won 20-0 November, 23 Murray State Won 6-0 Italic SIAA game


1940 Western Reserve Red Cats football team
The 1940 Western Reserve Red Cats football team represented the Western Reserve University, now known as Case Western Reserve University, during the 1940 college football season. The team was led by sixth-year head coach Bill Edwards, who was assisted by Gene Myslenski and Roy A. (Dugan) Miller. Notable players included Johnny Reis, Andy Logan, Stan Skoczen, Steve Belichick, Dom "Mickey" Sanzotta and Dick Booth.


1940 Western Reserve Red Cats football team
The season opener against the Akron officially opened their new Rubber Bowl. Western Reserve conclude the season with a win in the Sun Bowl over Arizona State.


1940 Western State Broncos football team
The 1940 Western State Broncos football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Mike Gary, the Broncos compiled a 2–5 record and were outscored by their opponents, 117 to 77. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1940 Western State Broncos football team
Guard Wayne Falan and guard/quarterback Harold Benge were the team captains. Halfback Horace Coleman received the team's most outstanding player award.


1940 Whipple
1940 Whipple (prov. designation: 1975 CA) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 2 February 1975, by the Harvard College Observatory at its George R. Agassiz Station near Harvard, Massachusetts, in the United States, and named after astronomer Fred Whipple.


1940 Whipple, Classification and orbit
Whipple orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.9–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (1,956 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.06 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. The first used observation was made at Goethe Link Observatory in 1962, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 13 years prior to its discovery observation.


1940 Whipple, Naming
This minor planet was named after American astronomer Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), author of the icy conglomerate model, also known as the dirty snowball hypothesis.


1940 Whipple, Naming
Whipple worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years and was the director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory where he developed new methods imaging meteors. He was also president of several commissions at the International Astronomical Union and on NASA's panel for missions to small Solar System bodies. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 (M.P.C. 3828).


1940 Whipple, Physical characteristics
Whipple has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric survey.


1940 Whipple, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid measures between 32.6 and 40.4 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a low albedo between 0.04 and 0.06. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.056 and a diameter of 33.8 kilometers using an absolute magnitude of 11.1.


1940 Whipple, Physical characteristics, Lightcurves
In December 2011, a rotational lightcurve was obtained for this asteroid from photometric observations by American astronomer Russel Durkee at the Shed of Science Observatory (H39). It gave a well-defined rotation period of 6.953±0.003 hours with a brightness variation of 0.25 magnitude (U=3), superseding a period of 5.78±0.03 hours previously obtained by French astronomer René Roy in 2005 (U=2).


1940 Wichita Shockers football team
The 1940 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita University (now known as Wichita State University) as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their 11th season under head coach Al Gebert, the Shockers compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 102 to 72.


1940 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1940 William & Mary Indians football team represented William & Mary during the 1940 college football season.


1940 William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves football team
The 1940 William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves football team represented the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, now referred to as Old Dominion University, during the 1940 college football season. They finished with a 0–6 record, and went all six games without scoring a single point; they also allowed no less than eighteen points in every game. This was the last season of football for Old Dominion until they reinstated the football program 69 years later, in 2009.


1940 Winter Olympics
The 1940 Winter Olympics, which would have been officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (第五回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Dai Go-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and as Sapporo 1940 (札幌1940), were to have been celebrated from 3 to 12 February 1940 in Sapporo, Japan, but the games were eventually cancelled due to the onset of World War II. Sapporo subsequently hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city in Asia to host the Winter Olympics.


1940 Winter Olympics, History
Sapporo was selected to be the host of the fifth edition of the Winter Olympics, scheduled 3–12 February 1940, but Japan gave the Games back to the IOC in July 1938, after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The IOC then decided to give the Winter Olympics to St. Moritz, Switzerland, which had hosted it in 1928. However, the Swiss organizers believed that ski instructors should be considered professionals. The IOC was not of that mind, and the Games were withdrawn again.


1940 Winter Olympics, History
In the spring of 1939, the IOC gave the 1940 Winter Olympics, now scheduled for 2–11 February, to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where the previous Games had been held. Five months later, on 1 September, Germany invaded Poland, igniting World War II, and the Winter Games were cancelled in November. Likewise, the 1944 Games, awarded in 1939 to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, were cancelled in 1941. St. Moritz held the first post-war games in 1948, while Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted in 1956.


1940 Winter Olympics, History
Germany has not hosted the Winter Olympics since 1936: on 6 July 2011; Munich lost to Pyeongchang, South Korea to host the 2018 Winter Games.


1940 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1940 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 4–4 record (3–3 against conference opponents) and finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten Conference. Harry Stuhldreher was in his fifth year as Wisconsin's head coach.


1940 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Fullback George Paskvan was selected by the Associated Press (AP) as a second-team player, and by the United Press (UP) as a third-team player, on the 1940 College Football All-America Team. He was also selected by both the AP and UP as a first-team player on the 1940 All-Big Ten Conference football team, and as Wisconsin's most valuable player. John Tennant was the team captain.


1940 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium which was expanded to a capacity of 45,000 for the 1940 season. During the 1940 season, the average attendance at home games was 26,277.


1940 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1940 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940.


1940 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Julius P. Heil defeated Progressive nominee Orland Steen Loomis and Democratic nominee Francis E. McGovern with 40.67% of the vote.


1940 Wisła Kraków season
The 1940 season was Wisła Kraków's 32nd year as a club.


1940 Wofford Terriers football team
The 1940 Wofford Terriers football team represented Wofford College as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1940 college football season.


1940 Women's Western Open
The 1940 Women's Western Open was a golf competition held at Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, the 11th edition of the event. Babe Zaharias won the championship in match play competition by defeating Mrs. Russell Mann in the final match, 5 and 4.


1940 World Series
The 1940 World Series matched the Cincinnati Reds against the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning a closely contested seven-game series. The victory secured the Reds the second championship in their franchise history and came 21 years after their victory over the scandal-tainted Chicago White Sox in 1919. This would be the Reds' last World Series championship for 35 years despite appearances in 1961, 1970, and 1972. Meanwhile, Bill Klem worked the last of his record 18 World Series as an umpire.


1940 World Series
Other story lines marked this series. Henry Quillen Buffkin Newsom, the father of Detroit's star pitcher Bobo Newsom, died in a Cincinnati hotel room the day after watching him win Game 1. Newsom came back to hurl a shutout in Game 5 in his memory. Called on to start a third time after a single day of rest by Tiger manager Del Baker, he pitched well in Game 7 until the seventh inning, when the Reds scored two runs to take the lead and eventually the game and the Series.


1940 World Series
The Reds' star pitchers Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters won two games apiece, with Derringer winning the decisive seventh game. Walters hurled two complete games, allowing only eight hits and three runs combined. He also hit a home run in Game 6 in the midst of his 4–0 shutout, which sent the Series to a Game 7.


1940 World Series
It was redemption of sorts for the Reds, who returned to the World Series after being swept by the Yankees squad in 1939. The Reds' win in Game 2 against Detroit snapped a 10-game losing streak for the National League in the Series going back to Game 6 in 1937.


1940 World Series
The victory culminated a somewhat turbulent season for the Reds, who played large stretches of the season without injured All-Star catcher Ernie Lombardi. And on August 3, Lombardi's backup, Willard Hershberger, committed suicide in Boston a day after a defensive lapse cost the Reds a game against the Bees. Hershberger was hitting .309 at the time of his death. The Reds dedicated the rest of the season to "Hershie." One of the stars in the World Series was 40-year-old Jimmy Wilson. Wilson had been one of the Reds' coaches before Hershberger's suicide forced him back onto the playing field as Lombardi's backup. With Lombardi hurting, Wilson did the bulk of the catching against Detroit and hit .353 for the Series and recorded the team's only stolen base.


1940 World Series
Reds' manager Bill McKechnie became the first manager to win a World Series with two different teams, at the helm of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925, after trailing three games to one against Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Bobo Newsom won Game 1 aided by a five-run second inning by Detroit. Two singles and an error loaded the bases before Pinky Higgins drove in two runs with a single. A walk reloaded the bases before Dick Bartell's two-run single. Bruce Campbell's RBI single knocked starter Paul Derringer out of the game. The Reds got on the board in the fourth when Ival Goodman hit a leadoff double and scored on Jimmy Ripple's single, but Campbell's two-run home run in the fifth off of Whitey Moore extended the Tigers' lead to 7–1. The Reds got another run in the eighth when Billy Werber doubled and scored on Goodman's single, but nothing else as Detroit took a 1–0 series lead.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Detroit struck first in Game 2 Bucky Walters allowed two leadoff walks in the first, then an RBI single to Charlie Gehringer and ground-ball RBI double-play to Hank Greenberg, but the Reds tied it in the second on four singles off of Schoolboy Rowe, two of which by Eddie Joost and Billy Myers scoring a run each. Next inning, Jimmy Ripple's two-run home run put the Reds up 4–2. Back-to-back doubles by Walters and Billy Werber made it 5–2 Reds in the fourth. The Tigers got a run in the sixth on Hank Greenberg's RBI double after a walk and forceout in the sixth, but nothing else besides Pinky Higgins's leadoff double in the fifth as the Reds tied the series with a 5–3 win heading to Detroit.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Reds struck first in Game 3 when Billy Werber doubled to lead off the first off of Tommy Bridges and scored on Ival Goodman's single, but the Tigers tied it in the fourth on Hank Greenberg's double-play after back-to-back leadoff singles off of  Jim Turner. Detroit went up 5–1 in the seventh on two-run home runs by Rudy York and Pinky Higgins.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Reds got a run in the eighth on  Mike McCormick's RBI single with two on, but in the bottom half, Greenberg hit a leadoff triple off of Joe Beggs before  Bruce Campbell's RBI single and Higgins's RBI double made it 7–2 Tigers. In the ninth after a leadoff single and error, RBI singles by Eddie Joost and Werber made it 7–4 Tigers, but Bridges struck out McCormick to end the game as Detroit took a 2–1 series lead.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In Game 4, after a leadoff walk off of Dizzy Trout, Ival Goodman's RBI double and Pinky Higgins's error on Jimmy Ripple's ground ball made it 2–0 Reds in the first. They made it 3–0 in the third on Jimmy Ripple's RBI double after two leadoff singles.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Tigers got on the board in the bottom half when Paul Derringer walked Barney McCosky, who moved to second on a groundout and scored on Hank Greenberg's RBI double, but the Reds got back that run in the fourth on Ival Goodman's sacrifice fly off of  Clay Smith after a leadoff walk and double.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Tigers got another run in the sixth  Bruce Campbell singled with two outs and scored on Higgins's triple, but the Reds again got the run back in the eighth when Billy Werber singled with two outs off of Archie McKain, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on  Mike McCormick's RBI single. Derringer pitched a complete game to give the Reds a 5–2 win, tying the series 2–2.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Bobo Newsom allowed only three singles and two walks in the shutout, the day after his father died. Detroit got on the board on Hank Greenberg's three-run home run after two leadoff singles in the third. Next inning,  Billy Sullivan drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on Dick Bartell's double. Two walks by starter Junior Thompson and reliever Whitey Moore loaded the bases before Hank Greenberg's sacrifice fly and after another walk,  Bruce Campbell's two-run single made it 7–0 Tigers. They got another run in the eighth on Johnny Hutchings's wild pitch with two on and were just one win way from the championship heading back to Cincinnati.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Bucky Walters drew the Reds even with a five-hit shutout. He helped his own cause with an RBI fielder's choice in the sixth with the bases loaded off of Johnny Gorsica and a solo home run in the eighth off of Fred Hutchinson. Schoolboy Rowe was knocked out after just 1⁄3 of an inning, allowing four hits, including RBI singles to Ival Goodman and Jimmy Ripple. The Reds' 4–0 win forced a final Game 7.


1940 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
Game 7 was over in a 1 hour, 47 minutes. Detroit and pitcher Bobo Newsom clung to a 1-0 lead, courtesy of Charlie Gehringer's third inning RBI single off of Paul Derringer, until the seventh. Leadoff doubles by Frank McCormick and Jimmy Ripple tied the score, followed by a sacrifice bunt and Billy Myers' sacrifice fly for the game-winning (and Series-winning) run.


1940 World Series, Composite line score
1940 World Series (4–3): Cincinnati Reds (NL) over Detroit Tigers (AL)


1940 World Series, Home runs by pitchers
Bucky Walters, converted to pitching only after a torn cartilage (not repairable in those days) had slowed him down as a runner, was the fourth National League pitcher to hit a home run during a World Series game. The others were:


1940 World Snooker Championship
The 1940 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament held at Thurston's Hall in London, England from 22 February to 20 March 1940. It was the fourteenth edition of the World Snooker Championship. Joe Davis defeated his younger brother Fred Davis by 37 frames to 36 in the final, to retain the title that he had held since the tournament's inception in 1927. Joe Davis compiled a century break in the penultimate frame to win the match at 37–35 before a dead frame was played out. The only other century break of the tournament was 101 by Fred Davis earlier in the final.


1940 World Snooker Championship
There were nine participants. Herbert Holt and Conrad Stanbury played a qualifying match, which Holt won to join the other seven players in the competition proper. Holt was eliminated in the first round by Walter Donaldson. This was the last World Championship to be held until the end of World War II, the next edition being held in 1946.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Background
The World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. The sport was developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. Professional English billiards player and billiard hall manager Joe Davis noticed the increasing popularity of snooker compared to billiards in the 1920s, and with Birmingham-based billiards equipment manager Bill Camkin, persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27 season.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Background
In 1927, the final of the first professional snooker championship was held at Camkin's Hall; Davis won the tournament by beating Tom Dennis in the final. The annual competition was not titled the World Championship until the 1935 tournament, but the 1927 tournament is now referred to as the first World Snooker Championship. Davis had also won the title every year from 1928 to 1938.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Background
There were nine entries for the 1938 Championship. There were eight places in the competition proper, with a qualifying match scheduled between Herbert Holt and Conrad Stanbury to determine which of them would join the other seven participants in the main draw.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round (quarter-finals)
Holt, who joined the main draw by defeating Stanbury in the qualifying round, met Walter Donaldson in the first match of the competition proper from 22 to 24 February. Donaldson claimed the first four frames and led 6–4 overnight. Donaldson won eight frames on the second day to lead 14–6, two frames from victory, and took the first two frames on the final day to win 16–6. He eventually won 10 of the 11 frames played, for a final score of 24–7. All 11 frames on the final day were completed in 2 hours 15 minutes.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round (quarter-finals)
Joe Davis and Alec Brown played in the second quarter-final from 26 to 28 February. Brown had recently won the Daily Mail Gold Cup beating Davis 39–22 in October 1939. However, in that match he had received a start of 25 in each frame. Brown took a 2–1 lead but Davis led 7–3 after the first day. Davis extended his lead to 10–3 but at the end of the second day Brown had reduced Davis's lead to 12–8. By winning the last frame of the final afternoon session, Davis achieved  a decisive 16–9 lead. The final score was 20–11.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round (quarter-finals)
From 29 February to 2 March, Fred Davis faced Sydney Lee in the third quarter-final. On the first day Lee won frame 4 but Davis led 9–1. The players each won five frames on the second day so that Davis led 14–6. Davis took the first two frames on the third day to win the match 16–6. The final score was 20–11, with Davis making a break of 88 in the evening session.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, First round (quarter-finals)
The last quarter-final was between Sidney Smith, a tournament finalist in the two preceding years, and Tom Newman, from 4 to 6 March. Newman won the first frame with a break of 53 but Smith led 8–2 overnight and won comfortably 16–3 on the second day. The final score was 22–9.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals
The first semi-final took place from 7 to 9 March. Joe Davis and Donaldson met in the first semi-final. Davis won the first three frames but Donaldson levelled the match at 5–5 at the end of the first day. Davis won 7 frames on the second day to lead 12–8. On the final day Donaldson won the first frame but Davis won the next four to win the match 16–9. Davis then extended his winning run to 10 frames to leave a final score of 22–9.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals
From 11 to 13 March, the second semi-final, between Fred Davis and Sidney Smith, was played. Smith established a 7–2 lead, before Davis won the last frame of the day to reduce the gap to four frames. Davis won seven frames on the second day to level the match at 10–10 and then added three of the five frames on the final afternoon to lead 13–12. Winning first two frames in the concluding evening session gave him a 15–12 lead and, although Smith won the following frame, Davis took the match 16–13. The final score was 17–14.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Brothers Joe and Fred Davis met in the final from 14 to 20 March (with no play on 17 March, a Sunday). Joe took an 8–4 lead on the first day by winning both sessions 4–2. Joe led 14–10 after the second day. Fred won the first 10 frames on the third day and led 21–15 at the end of the day. Including the last frame on the second day, Fred had won 11 frames in succession. Joe won 9 frames on the fourth day to level the match at 24–24. The fifth afternoon session was shared.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Fred made a 101 break in frame 50, including 13 reds, 11 blacks, a pink and a blue. It was the first century break of the tournament. Joe won four frames in the evening to lead 31–29. On the final day Joe won the first three frames to lead 34–29 but Fred won the next four frames. When Joe won frame 70, he took a 36–34 lead but Fred won the next. In frame 72 Fred scored the first 12 points but Joe then made a 101 break to take a winning 37–35 lead.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Joe got his century by potting the blue, leaving just the pink and black remaining. The spectators cheered for nearly a minute when Joe made his century. Fred won the last frame, giving a final score of 37–36. Snooker historian Clive Everton noted that this was the closest that Davis had ever come to defeat in the history of the championship. It was the last time that the pair met in the tournament. Joe Davis retired from the competition after winning for the fifteenth time when the tournament was next held, which was in 1946, after a break due to World War II.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
In his book Talking Snooker, Fred Davis recalled of the 1940 final that "The cynics were not slow to suggest that Joe had 'taken it easy' with his younger brother, but those on the inside knew how wrong they were."


1940 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
The Billiard Player magazine's correspondent wrote that there was no incentive for Joe Davis not to try to win every frame, as "the hall would be packed just the same" even if he had a commanding lead, and attributed the closeness of the result to the younger brother playing the best snooker of his career whilst the defending champion was not consistently at his best. In Joe Davis's autobiography, he claimed that he had always tried his hardest when playing his brother, and commented that 1940 was the "toughest" of all his championship finals.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
Match results are shown below. Winning players and scores are denoted in bold text.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Herbert Holt and Conrad Stanbury met at Thurston's Hall for their qualifying match, played from 19 to 21 February. Holt led 6–4 after the first day and 13–7 after day two. Although he lost the first frame on the final day, he took the next three to secure a winning 16–8 lead. Stanbury won five of the seven dead frames for a final score of 18–13.


1940 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks
There were two century breaks during the tournament, both during the final.


1940 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1940 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1940 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Okie Blanchard, the team compiled a 1–7–1 record (0–5–1 against MSC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 190 to 32.


1940 Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1940 Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented Xavier University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Clem Crowe, the team compiled a 7–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 105 to 82. The team played its home games at Xavier Stadium in Cincinnati.


1940 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1940 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by seventh-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 1–7 record.


1940 Yukon general election
The 1940 Yukon general election was held on 25 November 1940 to elect the three members of the Yukon Territorial Council.


1940 Yukon general election, Yukon Territorial Council
The council was non-partisan, and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner.


1940 college football season
The 1940 college football season ended with the Gophers of the University of Minnesota being named the nation's No. 1 team and national champion by the AP Poll, and the Stanford University Indians in second, with the two teams receiving 65 and 44 first place votes respectively. Each writer listed his choice for the top ten teams, and points were tallied based on 10 for first place, 9 for second, etc., and the AP then ranked the twenty teams with the highest number of points. Minnesota, Stanford, Boston College, and Tennessee all claim 1940 as a national championship season.


1940 college football season, September
September 28 Defending champion Texas A&M beat Texas A&I (later the university's Kingsville campus), 26–0. Tennessee beat Mercer 49–0. USC and Washington State played to a 14–14 tie. Tulane lost to Boston College 27–7. Michigan won at California 41–0. Minnesota defeated Washington 19–14 in Minneapolis.


1940 college football season, October
October 5 In San Antonio, Texas A&M beat Tulsa 41–6. Tennessee beat Duke 13–0. Cornell beat Colgate 34–0. Northwestern won at Syracuse, 40–0. Minnesota beat Nebraska 13–7. Michigan beat Michigan State 21–14.


1940 college football season, October
October 12 Cornell won at Army 45–0. In Los Angeles, Texas A&M beat UCLA, 7–0, and was ranked 2nd in the AP poll that followed. Tennessee beat Chattanooga 53–0 and was fifth in the next poll. Northwestern beat Ohio State 6–3. Michigan won at Harvard 26–0.


1940 college football season, October
October 19 No. 1 Cornell beat Syracuse 33–6. No. 2 Texas A&M beat TCU 21–7. No. 3 Michigan beat Illinois 28–0. No. 4 Northwestern won at Wisconsin 27–7. In Birmingham, No. 5 Tennessee beat Alabama, 27–12. In Columbus, No. 7 Minnesota beat No. 15 Ohio State 13–7. No. 6 Notre Dame beat Carnegie Tech 61–0.


1940 college football season, October
October 26 No. 1 Cornell beat Ohio State 21–7. No. 2 Notre Dame won at Illinois 26–0. No. 3 Michigan  beat Pennsylvania 14–0. No. 4 Texas A&M won at Baylor 14–7. No. 5 Tennessee beat Florida 14–0. No. 6 Minnesota beat Iowa 34–6.


1940 college football season, November
November 2 No. 1 Cornell beat Columbia 27–0. No. 2 Notre Dame beat Army 7–0 at Yankee Stadium. No. 3 Michigan was idle. No. 4 Minnesota narrowly won at Northwestern, 13–12. No. 5 Texas A&M beat Arkansas 17–0. No. 7 Tennessee beat LSU 28–0.


1940 college football season, November
November 9 No. 1 Cornell beat Yale 21–0, but dropped to second in the next poll. No. 2 Minnesota and No. 3 Michigan both unbeaten (5–0–0) met in Minneapolis, with the Gophers winning by one point, 7–6. No. 4 Texas A&M won at SMU 19–7. No. 5 Tennessee won at Rhodes College 41–0. No. 6 Stanford beat Washington 20–10 to advance its record to 7–0–0.


1940 college football season, November
November 16 No. 1 Minnesota beat Purdue 33–6. No. 2 Cornell lost at Dartmouth 3–0. No. 3 Texas A&M beat Rice 25–0. No. 4 Stanford beat Oregon State 28–14. No. 5 Tennessee beat Virginia 41–14. No. 8 Boston College beat Georgetown 19–18 to extend its record to 8–0–0


1940 college football season, November
November 23 No. 1 Minnesota closed its season with a 22–13 win at Wisconsin. No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 3 Stanford were idle. No. 4 Boston College beat Auburn 33–7. No. 5 Cornell. No. 7 Michigan won at Ohio State to close its season at 7–1–0.


1940 college football season, November
On Thanksgiving Day No. 2 Texas A&M lost at Texas 7–0.


1940 college football season, November
November 30 No. 3 Stanford closed its season with a 13–7 win at California. No. 4 Boston College defeated Holy Cross 7–0.


1940 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Afghanistan.


1940 in Afghanistan
Internal economic development is furthered by increasing the availability of land for cultivation, by assistance to the sugar-beet industry, and by official sanction of a scheme for the formation of a joint-stock company to coordinate the work of the country's cotton pressing, spinning, and weaving factories. Special taxation is imposed for the purchase of arms from abroad and the construction of two radio stations and three railway lines.


1940 in Afghanistan, January 1940
Obligatory national service for all males over 17 is decreed.


1940 in Afghanistan, Early 1940
Archaeology benefits by the discovery of the long-buried city of Begram, the ancient capital at the time of the Greek domination, by the French research expedition (withdrawn in July) under Prof. Joseph Hackin.


1940 in Afghanistan, July 1940
A trade agreement with the U.S.S.R. is signed, under which Afghanistan exchanges wool, casings, skins, and herbs against textiles, salt, sugar, and kerosene.


1940 in Afghanistan, August 17, 1940
Parliament is opened at Kabul, and the king says that the country is pursuing a policy consistent with a declaration of neutrality, and that political and economic relations between Afghanistan and the belligerent powers are very cordial. However, he stresses the necessity of being prepared and united in view of current external events.


1940 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Australia.


1940 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1940.


1940 in Australian literature
For an overview of Australian literature see List of years in Australian_literature


1940 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1940 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1940 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1940 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1940 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1940 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 39th season of competitive football in the country.


1940 in Brazilian football, Torneio Rio-São Paulo
The 1940 Torneio Rio-São Paulo was not concluded, thus no club was declared as the competition champion.


1940 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1940.


1940 in British music
This is a summary of 1940 in music in the United Kingdom.


1940 in British radio
This is a list of events from British radio in 1940.


1940 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 1940.


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
"The influence of the older generation" - Indian residential school principal sorry his pupils' "good training" neutralized at home


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
"Almost terrifying sums of money" - Transport Minister C.D. Howe on War Supply Board's huge task, and power


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Training facilities across Canada will be set up to turn out 35,000 Commonwealth pilots, air gunners and observers annually


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Infantry training at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition grounds to supply reinforcements for units now in England


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Limit to "complete equality for women" is on North Atlantic as female reporters tour Canadian destroyer at sea


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Controversy erupts in Ontario Liberal Party over Premier Hepburn's "personal grudge" censure of King war policy


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
"My own bomb came looking for me, but I was not at home" - Canadian diplomat survives Blitz (just barely) in London


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
King George walks five miles and stops to chat 50 times as he inspects Canadian First Division in England


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
First loan drive (for 12-year bonds at 3.25% interest) brings in more than $136 million from cities, towns and hamlets


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Nazi-linked German nationals and suspect German-Canadians to be interned as possibly dangerous to Canada


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
"No place for excitement in the hearts of people" regarding federal election issues, but deep concern over world affairs in Ottawa


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Hours before its capitulation to Germans, Canadian, British and U.S. governments pledge help to imperilled France


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Following fall of France, Quebec editorials call on English and French Canadian men to heed call to Canada's defence


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Montreal mayor interned as "prejudicial to the public safety" after he "blasted" wartime compulsory training order


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Editorials point out importance of U.S.A. to Allies' struggle, and its people's recognition of that


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Canada shifting main war partnership from Britain to U.S.A.; public wants greater war effort (except overseas conscription)


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
U.S. ambassador reports Canadian public demanding "some form of joint defence understanding with the United States"


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
U.S.A. and Canada set up Permanent Joint Board on Defence to protect North America


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth political cartoon of U.S.-Canada defence pact has Wild West setting


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Supervisor of German sanitorium and Württemberg bishop object to unlawful killing of mental patients and epileptics


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
"Such a sudden and swift offensive" - Ukrainian-Canadian leftists are arrested in wide police sweep in Winnipeg


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
With government "forcing conscription of unemployed and needy youth," Canadian Youth Congress wants training and jobs


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Liberal Party federal election leaflet identifies CCF (and Nazis) as socialist


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
German Jewish refugee Frederick Mendel turns Saskatoon meatpacking plant into thriving business


1940 in Canada, Historical Documents
Anarchist Emma Goldman feels "gagged and paralyzed" in wartime Canada as she collects money for refugees


1940 in Canadian football
The only two-game total point series in Grey Cup history was played between the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers. It was Ottawa's first Grey Cup championship since the Senators won back-to-back titles in 1925 and 1926. It was Balmy Beach's fourth and final appearance at a Grey Cup, winning two times in four opportunities.


1940 in Canadian football
The Canadian Rugby Union arranged the series after it refused to allow the WIFU winners, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to compete in the final. The reason for the refusal was based on the WIFU season being played under rules that varied from IRFU rules.


1940 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1940 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings
A tie game between the Hamilton Alerts and Camp Borden was ordered to be replayed but was cancelled.


1940 in Canadian football, Grey Cup Championship
28th Annual Grey Cup Game – Game 1: Varsity Stadium – Toronto, Ontario


1940 in Canadian football, Grey Cup Championship
28th Annual Grey Cup Game – Game 2: Lansdowne Park – Ottawa, Ontario


1940 in Canadian football, Grey Cup Championship
The Ottawa Rough Riders are the 1940 Grey Cup Champions


1940 in Canadian football, 1940 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1940 in Canadian football, 1940 Western Interprovincial Football Union All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1940 in Canadian football, 1940 Ontario Rugby Football Union All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1940 in Cape Verde
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Cape Verde.


1940 in Chile
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Chile.


1940 in El Salvador
The following lists events that happened in 1940 in El Salvador.


1940 in Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1940 in Estonia.


1940 in Germany, Events, December
4 June: German troops on parade after the surrender of Paris


1940 in Germany, Events, December
British destroyers attack the German fleet during the Battle of Narvik


1940 in Germany, Events, December
9 April: the German ship "Blücher" is sunk by the Norwegian shore defences at the Battle of Drøbak Sound.


1940 in Germany, Events, December
20 May: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau opens in occupied Poland


1940 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 1940 in Iceland.


1940 in Japan
Events in the year 1940 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 15 (昭和15年) in the Japanese calendar.


1940 in Malaya
This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1940, together with births and deaths of prominent Malayans.


1940 in Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1940 in the British Mandate of Palestine.


1940 in Michigan, Top stories
The Associated Press polled editors of its member newspapers in Michigan and ranked the state's top news stories of 1940 as follows:


1940 in Michigan, Top stories
Other stories receiving votes included a political fight over the extent of state aid for the care and treatment of crippled children; a murder-suicide of Wayne County Judge Robert Sage and two of his associates; the 1940 Census results entitling Michigan to an additional congressman and showed a population shift away from urban districts; Congressional approval for construction of the Mackinac Bridge; and the appointment of former Governor Frank Murphy to the U.S. Supreme Court.


1940 in Michigan, Population
In the 1940 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 5,256,106, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1950, Michigan's population had increased by 21.2% to 6,371,766.


1940 in Michigan, Population, Cities
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 20,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.


1940 in Michigan, Population, Counties
The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 75,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.


1940 in Michigan, Companies
The following is a list of major companies based in Michigan in 1940.


1940 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in New Zealand.


1940 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government
The 26th New Zealand Parliament continued with the Labour Party in government.


1940 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film
See : Category:1940 film awards, 1940 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1940 films


1940 in New Zealand, Sport, Lawn bowls
The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Wellington.


1940 in Norway, Overview
1940 is the year when Norway became drawn into World War II. On 9 April Nazi Germany invaded the country, which remained occupied until 8 May 1945. See the article Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany for a full exposition of World War II in Norway.


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
British destroyers attacking a 10-strong German destroyer force during the Battle of Narvik


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
The German cruiser Blücher sinking in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940.


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
A shot down Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft at Dombås.


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
German infantry attacking through a burning Norwegian village, April 1940.


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
German troops in Oslo, May 1940. In the background is the Victoria Terrasse, which later became the headquarters of the Gestapo in Norway.


1940 in Norway, Events, Unknown date
German officers stand in front of the National Theater in Oslo, 1940.


1940 in Norwegian football, Norgesserien 1939/40
Because of World War II, Norgesserien 1939/40 was abandoned after the winter break following the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940.


1940 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1940 in Norwegian music.


1940 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in South Africa.


1940 in Taiwan
Events from the year 1940 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.


1940 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1940 to Wales and its people.


1940 in animation
This is a list of events related to film and television animation of 1940.


1940 in architecture
The year 1940 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1940 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1940 throughout the world.


1940 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1940  throughout the world.


1940 in chess
The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1940.


1940 in comics
Notable events of 1940 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


1940 in country music
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1940 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1940.


1940 in film
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia.


1940 in film, Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:


1940 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1940 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.


1940 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1940.


1940 in jazz, Top hits of the year
On February 8, 1940, “How High the Moon” was introduced during the Broadway revue Two for the Show. The musical would run at the Booth Theatre for 124 performances. Music and Lyrics by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock.


1940 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1940.


1940 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1940 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


1940 in motorsport, Annual events
The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had own significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.


1940 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1940.


1940 in music, Biggest hit songs
The following songs achieved the highest  in the limited set of charts available for 1940.


1940 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1940.


1940 in paleontology, Plants, Angiosperms
A golden larch species, split into Pseudolarix arnoldii and Pseudolarix wehrii in 1992


1940 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


1940 in poetry, Works published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised:


1940 in poetry, Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; works listed again if substantially revised:


1940 in poetry, Works published in other languages, Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:


1940 in poetry, Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1940 in poetry, Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1940 in professional wrestling
1940 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.


1940 in radio
The year 1940 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.


1940 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1940.


1940 in science
The year 1940 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.


1940 in sports
1940 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.


1940 in television
The year 1940 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1940.


1940 in the Belgian Congo
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Belgian Congo.


1940 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1940 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


1940 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1940 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by Britain's involvement in the Second World War, which commenced in September the previous year, as well as the numerous enemy air raids on Britain and thousands of subsequent casualties. Although the war continued, Britain did triumph in the Battle of Britain and foiled Nazi Germany's invasion attempt.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons
All first-class cricket was cancelled in the 1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons because of the Second World War; no first-class matches were played in England after Friday, 1 September 1939 until Saturday, 19 May 1945.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons
Ten matches were cancelled at the end of the 1939 English cricket season due to the German invasion of Poland on 1 September and the British government’s declaration of war against Germany on Sunday 3 September.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons
Although eleven first-class matches were arranged during the 1945 season following the final defeat of Germany in early May, it was not until the 1946 season that normal fixtures, including the County Championship and Minor Counties Championship, could resume. In contrast with much of the First World War, it was realised in the 1940s that cricket had its part to play in terms of raising both public morale and funds for charity. Efforts were made to stage matches whenever opportunity arose, especially if a suitable number of top players could be assembled. From the summer of 1941 onwards, teams such as the British Empire Eleven toured the country raising money for war charities.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons
At league cricket level, playing one-day matches, many competitions continued throughout the war: e.g., the Birmingham League, the Bradford League and the Lancashire League.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons
Successful wartime players included Laurie Fishlock, Eric Hollies and Eddie Paynter.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
In the 1940 Wisden, the cricket author H S Altham described his “sobering experience” when he visited Lord’s the previous December. He said:


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
Altham reflected the popular (and official) view that the game can and should be kept going whenever possible.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
One venue where it would not be possible was The Oval, which was commandeered in 1939 and quickly turned into a prisoner of war camp, except that no prisoners were ever interned there. The playing area became a maze of concrete posts and wire fences.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
Lord’s was also due for requisition but it was spared and MCC was able to stage many public schools and representative games throughout the war. A highlight in 1940 was the one-day game in which Sir PF Warner’s XI, including Len Hutton and Denis Compton (who top-scored with 73), beat a West Indies XI which included Learie Constantine and Leslie Compton (an honorary West Indian for the day).


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
Of the more regular wartime teams, the most famous were the British Empire XI and the London Counties XI which were established in 1940. Both played one-day charity matches, mostly in the south-east and often at Lord’s. The British Empire XI was founded by Pelham Warner but featured mainly English county players. The politician Desmond Donnelly, then in the Royal Air Force, began the London Counties XI. In one match between the two, Frank Woolley came out of retirement and played against the new star batsman Denis Compton. The British Empire XI played between 34 and 45 matches per season from 1940 to 1944; the London Counties XI was credited with 191 matches from 1940 to 1945.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
Although the teams were successful in raising money for charity, their main purpose was to help sustain morale. Many of the services and civil defence organisations had their own teams, some of them national and featuring first-class players.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1940
County clubs encouraged their players to join the services but at the same time pleaded with their members to continue subscriptions “as an investment for the future”. While some counties (notably Somerset and Hampshire) closed for the duration, others did arrange matches. Nottinghamshire played six matches at Trent Bridge in 1940 and Lancashire mooted a scheme for a regionalised county competition to include the minor counties, but it was not taken further.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1941
From 1941 to 1945 the University Match was played annually at Lord's as a one-day, and hence not first-class, game. Because Fenner's had not been commandeered, Cambridge had played nine matches during the 1941 season against Sussex and strong military and hospital teams and won four against a single defeat, whereas Oxford had played no cricket whatsoever due to The Parks being commandeered. Consequently, Cambridge were expected to and did win the match and were to win easily all but one of the subsequent one-day University Matches. Cambridge’s most famous player was John Bridger, who played after the war for Hampshire with considerable success.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1941
In public school cricket, a future champion in Trevor Bailey demonstrated his latterly-famous defensive skill for Dulwich College by scoring 851 runs in fifteen innings – in only seven of which was he dismissed. Dulwich also had the best school bowler in Horace Kiddle, who took fifty wickets for 7.86 runs each but was killed in action in 1944 before World War II ended, whilst future Worcestershire bowler George Chesterton of Malvern took 45 wickets for 12.88 runs each, but could not make the Wisden editors best school eleven. Edward Spooner, a son of famous Marlborough and Lancashire batsman Reggie, averaged 49.50 for Eton and was tipped for a big future, but was never to play first-class cricket at all.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1941
The British Empire XI was dominated by West Indian leg-spinner Bertie Clarke – exempt from military service because of his profession as a doctor – whose leg-breaks and googlies took 98 wickets for 11.40 runs apiece and was to better this record in 1942. In contrast, the main players for the London Counties XI were veterans, with Alf Gover their most successful bowler with 83 wickets for 9.50.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1942
As the war grew more intense, Lord’s was still able to expand its profits, with 1942 described as “the best wartime season Lord’s has had”. Jack Robertson came to prominence with an innings of 102 for the Army against the Royal Navy


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1942
Eddie Paynter scored 970 runs at an average of 138.50 for Keighley in the Bradford League, whist Bailey took 52 wickets for Dulwich at 6.16 runs apiece to follow up his high-class batting from the previous season. Essex veteran Jack O’Connor scored 208 – the only double-century in wartime cricket – in a two-day match on 4 and 5 July against Peterborough. whilst Clarke surpassed his 1942 record for the Empire XI. In public school cricket, the most significant discovery was Nigel Howard of Rossall School, who scored 456 runs at an average of 45 and took twenty-four cheap wickets, whilst future Derbyshire captain Donald Carr made his debut for Repton as a spin bowler.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1943
A drawn one-day match at Lord’s between an England XI and a West Indies XI featured the young Alec Bedser and Trevor Bailey. Bedser made his mark by taking 6/27 in the West Indies first innings. In the drawn Sir PF Warner’s XI v Royal Australian Air Force match at Lord’s, Keith Miller top-scored in the RAAF’s first innings, with 45 out of 100, as well as taking 2/20. The RAAF won a two-day match against The South at Hove by ten wickets. A strong England XI beat The Dominions by 8 runs in a two-day match at Lord’s. Les Ames made 133 in the England first innings, and Denis Compton then took 6/15 in eight overs. In their second innings, The Dominions came close to snatching an unlikely victory, with Stewie Dempster making 113.


1940 to 1944 English cricket seasons, 1944
At Lord's, two one-day matches were played by an England XI against “West Indies” and “Australia”, England winning both matches. (These were not limited overs matches.) Jack Young, unknown before the war but later to win two County Championships for Middlesex, took 88 wickets for London Counties XI at 7.63 runs apiece.


1940 Úrvalsdeild, Overview
It was contested by 4 teams, and Valur won the championship. Valur's Sigurpáll Jónsson and Víkingur's Ingólfur Isebarn were the joint top scorers with 4 goals.


1940: Myth and Reality
1940: Myth and Reality is a controversial 1990 book by British historian Clive Ponting. It is a revisionist history of the Second World War, particularly the divergences between the rhetoric and the reality in relation to popular British narratives of the Battle of Britain. The revisionism is different from that of, for example, The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality, a 2000 book by British historian Richard Overy, and draws different (arguably more pessimistic) conclusions. The book caused a minor sensation when published, but few of the revelations were new, most having been published in other books in the previous 21 years.


1940: Myth and Reality
The historiography of the period is a contentious one. Ponting claims that underlying realities that are far more complex and troubling are masked by the notions of 'Britain's finest hour' in the year of the Battle of Britain and the evacuation of Dunkirk, the other eulogising about the conflict and the lionisation of the premiership of Winston Churchill.


1940: Myth and Reality
The lesson of 1940 in particular, according to Ponting, was that Britain was no longer a superpower: "So vulnerable was Britain in the summer of 1940 that secret plans were laid to sell out Ulster to Eire and the Falklands (a nice touch, this) to Argentina. As the money ran out, the British forfeited their independence and became a client state of the United States".


1940: Myth and Reality
Ponting also analyses the role of propaganda transmitted by the government that also led to the creation of a façade that overstated underlying German casualty levels in the Battle of Britain and the parlous situation that led to Dunkirk. The question of the leadership of Churchill is examined and foreshadows Ponting's 1994 biography of Churchill, with the point made that the latter then addressed Parliament but rarely broadcast to the nation. The latter point has itself been contested, however, for example in the view that the idea that actors recorded Churchill's speeches is itself a myth.


1940s
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the 40s") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.


1940s
Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. The consequences of the war lingered well into the second half of the decade, with a war-weary Europe divided between the jostling spheres of influence of the Western world and the Soviet Union, leading to the beginning of the Cold War.


1940s
To some degree internal and external tensions in the post-war era were managed by new institutions, including the United Nations, the welfare state, and the Bretton Woods system, facilitating the post–World War II economic expansion, which lasted well into the 1970s. The conditions of the post-war world encouraged decolonization and the emergence of new states and governments, with India, Pakistan, Israel, Vietnam, and others declaring independence, although rarely without bloodshed. The decade also witnessed the early beginnings of new technologies (such as computers, nuclear power, and jet propulsion), often first developed in tandem with the war effort, and later adapted and improved upon in the post-war era.


1940s, Economics
The Bretton Woods Conference was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. The conference was held from July 1–22, 1944. It established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and created the Bretton Woods system.


1940s, Science and technology, Technology
ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, operated by Betty Jennings and Frances Bilas


1940s, Science and technology, Technology
Atanasoff–Berry Computer replica at 1st floor of Durham Center, Iowa State University


1940s, Science and technology, Technology
July 16, 1945 - The Manhattan Project - The atomic age begins with the Trinity nuclear test, during which the United States detonates a nuclear bomb based on plutonium at the Trinity Site in New Mexico


1940s, Science and technology, Science
October 24, 1946: V-2 rocket takes first picture of Earth from outer space


1940s, Science and technology, Science
Thor Heyerdahl's raft Kon-Tiki crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Tahiti proving the practical possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times


1940s, Popular culture, Film
Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era. Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films. European cinema survived although obviously curtailed during wartime and yet many films of high quality were made in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and elsewhere in Europe. The cinema of Japan also survived. Akira Kurosawa and other directors managed to produce significant films during the 1940s.


1940s, Popular culture, Film
Polish filmmakers in Great Britain created anti-nazi color film Calling mr. Smith (1943) about current nazi crimes in occupied Europe during the war and about lies of nazi propaganda.


1940s, Popular culture, Film
Film Noir, a film style that incorporated crime dramas with dark images, became largely prevalent during the decade. Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. The genre has been widely copied since its initial inception.


1940s, Popular culture, Film
In France during the war the tour de force Children of Paradise directed by Marcel Carné (1945), was shot in Nazi occupied Paris. Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947) and The Third Man (1949), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1946) and The Red Shoes (1948), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) directed by Robert Hamer.


1940s, Popular culture, Film
Italian neorealism of the 1940s produced poignant movies made in post-war Italy. Roma, città aperta directed by Roberto Rossellini (1945), Sciuscià directed by Vittorio De Sica (1946), Paisà directed by Roberto Rossellini (1946), La terra trema directed by Luchino Visconti (1948), The Bicycle Thief directed by Vittorio De Sica (1948), and Bitter Rice directed by Giuseppe De Santis (1949), are some well-known examples.


1940s, Popular culture, Film
In Japanese cinema, The 47 Ronin is a 1941 black and white two-part Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945), and the post-war Drunken Angel (1948), and Stray Dog (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s. Drunken Angel (1948), marked the beginning of the successful collaboration between Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune that lasted until 1965.


1940s, Popular culture, Fashion
As the 1940s went through times of hardship during and after WWII, the solution was significant rationing and fashion items and fabrics were no exception. Fashion became more utilitarian or function and comfortability over style. Besides this rationing, as a tribute, women's fashion also changed to reflect that and it was seen in the new silhouette that is featured suits. In order to feminize this, certain elements were added such as the straight knee-length skirts and accessories to complete the look.


1940s, Popular culture, Fashion
Even with the challenges imposed by shortages in rayon, nylon, wool, leather, rubber, metal (for snaps, buckles, and embellishments), and even the amount of fabric that could be used in any one garment, the fashion industry's wheels kept chugging slowly along, producing what it could.


1940s, Popular culture, Fashion
After the fall of France in 1940, Hollywood drove fashion in the United States almost entirely, with the exception of a few trends coming from war torn London in 1944 and 1945, as America's own rationing hit full force, and the idea of function seemed to overtake fashion, if only for a few short months until the end of the war. Fabrics shifted dramatically as rationing and wartime shortages controlled import items such as silk and furs.


1940s, Popular culture, Fashion
Floral prints seem to dominate the early 1940s, with the mid-to-late 1940s also seeing what is sometimes referred to as "atomic prints" or geometric patterns and shapes. The color of fashion seemed to even go to war, with patriotic nautical themes and dark greens and khakis dominating the color palettes, as trousers and wedges slowly replaced the dresses and more traditional heels due to shortages in stockings and gasoline. The most common characteristics of this fashion were the straight skirt, pleats, front fullness, squared shoulders with v-necks or high necks, slim sleeves and the most favorited necklines were sailor, mandarin and scalloped.


1940s, People, Military leaders
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Imperial Navy Fleet Admiral responsible for attack on Pearl Harbor.


1940s, People, Military leaders
Georgy Zhukov who led the Soviet army during the Battle of Berlin


1940s, People, Military leaders
Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal who led the North African Campaign.


1940s, People, Actors / Entertainers
Rita Hayworth as Doña Sol des Muire in Blood and Sand (1941)


1940s, People, Sports
During the 1940s, sporting events were disrupted and changed by the events that engaged and shaped the entire world. The 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games were cancelled because of World War II. During World War II in the United States Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis and numerous stars and performers from American baseball and other sports served in the armed forces until the end of the war. Among the many baseball players (including well known stars) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial (in 1945), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams. They like many others sacrificed their personal and valuable career time for the benefit and well-being of the rest of society. The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.


1940s, People, Sports
In 1947, Wataru Misaka of the New York Knicks became the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball, just months after Jackie Robinson had broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.


1940s, People, Sports, Baseball
During the early 1940s World War II had an enormous impact on Major League Baseball as many players including many of the most successful stars joined the war effort. After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Signing Robinson opened the door to the integration of Major League Baseball finally putting an end to the professional discrimination that had characterized the sport since the 19th century.


1940s, People, Sports, Boxing
During the mid-1930s and throughout the years leading up to the 1940s Joe Louis was an enormously popular Heavyweight boxer. In 1936, he lost an important 12 round fight (his first loss) to the German boxer Max Schmeling and he vowed to meet Schmeling once again in the ring. Louis' comeback bout against Schmeling became an international symbol of the struggle between the US and democracy against Nazism and Fascism.


1940s, People, Sports, Boxing
When on June 22, 1938, Louis knocked Schmeling out in the first few seconds of the first round during their rematch at Yankee Stadium, his sensational comeback victory riveted the entire nation. Louis enlisted in the U.S. Army on January 10, 1942, in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Louis' cultural impact was felt well outside the ring. He is widely regarded as the first African American to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II.