1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
The 1940 World Series featured the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds, with the Tigers losing in 7 games.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 1, the Tigers beat the Reds, 7–2. It was the 10th straight World Series loss for a National League team. The Tigers scored five runs in the 2nd inning, and Bruce Campbell added a two-run home run. Bobo Newsom held the Reds to eight hits. Newsom's father, visiting from South Carolina, died in a Cincinnati hotel room the day after watching his son win Game 1.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 2, Bucky Walters gave the NL its first World Series game victory, 5–3, since Carl Hubbell beat the Yankees in 1937. Jimmy Ripple hit a two-run home run in the 3rd inning, and Walters gave up only 3 hits.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 3, the Tigers won, 7–3, before a crowd of almost 53,000 at Briggs Stadium. The Tigers had 9 hits and 19 total bases in the 7th and 8th innings off the Reds. Tommy Bridges pitched a complete game.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 4, the Reds won, 5–2. Paul Derringer‚ who had lost 4 World Series starts going back to 1931‚ finally got a win. Detroit starter Dizzy Trout did not make it out of the third inning.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 5, Bobo Newsom got the start for Detroit, just three days after his father's death. Bobo said he was going to pitch the game for his dad. In front of 55,000 fans in Detroit, he shut out the Reds, as the Tigers won 8–0, and took a 3–2 lead in the Series.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
In Game 6, Bucky Walters got the win for the Reds with a 4–0 shutout.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, World Series summary
The concluding game was a loss for the Tigers, as Bobo Newsom was called on to start on only one day's rest. Detroit got an unearned run in the 3rd inning to take a 1–0 lead. Newsom pitched well, allowing only two runs in the 7th inning. The Tigers scored only once, and the Reds won, 2–1.


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, Postseason player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1940 Detroit Tigers season, 1940 World Series, Postseason player stats, Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1940 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position
The following members of the 1934 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:


1940 Detroit Titans football team
The 1940 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the 1940 college football season. Detroit shut out six of nine opponents, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 147 to 27, and finished with a 7–2 record in its 16th year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Gus Dorais. During the 1940 season, Dorais registered his 100th victory as coach of the Titans. In his first 16 seasons with the University of Detroit, Dorais compiled a 101–42–7 record.


1940 Detroit Titans football team
According to the American Football Statistical Bureau's 1940 yearbook, the Titans ranked first among the 13 major Midwestern schools (a category including the Western Conference teams) in total offense (322.3 yards per game), rushing offense (242.6 yards per game), total defense (140 yards per game), rushing defense (63.6 yards per game), first downs made (133), and fewest first downs against (58).


1940 Detroit Titans football team
Detroit halfback Al Ghesquiere led the NCAA major college programs with 956 rushing yards, finishing ahead of Michigan's Heisman Trophy winner, Tom Harmon. The team's center, Vince Banonis, was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The team's captain was Casimere Brovarney. The assistant coaches were line coach Bud Boeringer and backfield coach Lloyd Brazil.


1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash
On 8 November 1940, a Deutsche Lufthansa Junkers Ju 90 passenger aircraft crashed near the municipality of Schönteichen, Germany, killing all 29 people on board.


1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash
The aircraft, registered D-AVMF and named Brandenburg, was en route from the German capital Berlin to Budapest, Hungary when ice formed on its tail, causing the airplane to lose control and crash. At the time, the accident was the worst one on German soil.


1940 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football represented Drake University in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1940 college football season. In its eighth season under head coach Vee Green, the team compiled a 4–5 record (2–2 against MVC opponents), tied for third place in the MVC, and outscored opponents by a total of 125 to 108.


1940 Drexel Dragons football team
1940 Drexel Dragons football team was head coached by Walter Halas.


1940 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 1940 Duke Blue Devils football team was an American football team that represented Duke University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1940 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach Wallace Wade, the team compiled a 7–2 record (4–1 against conference opponents), finished second in the conference, was ranked No. 18 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 203 to 52. Alex Winterson was the team captain. The team played its home games at Duke Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
The 1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association was an association of British service veterans "who served at Dunkirk and other ports of evacuation between 10 May and June 1940" – that is in the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940, including those who were taken prisoner. Associate membership was available to those "otherwise not qualified, but who had assisted at the ports of evacuation".


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
The association was formed at Leeds in 1953. Five veterans who had been on the Dunkirk Beach or in the vicinity fighting, met in the bar of the Queens Hotel, City Square, Leeds on 3 September 1953. They wanted to foster the spirit of comradeship and support experienced during the evacuation and support fellow veterans who had fallen on hard times.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
The first membership card, no 1, showed the 6d subscription collected and receipted by Harold Robinson (awarded MBE in 1970 for services to veterans charities) who had been voted in as Honorary General Secretary and stayed in that honorary post until his death in 1988, whilst working as a schoolteacher.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
The association started to arrange pilgrimages to the beaches and towns from which troops had been evacuated including Dunkirk, De Panne, Bray Dunes and Calais. During the first pilgrimage by 45 veterans in 1954, they realised that the local towns and population were still suffering deprivation and shortages. Subsequently, DVA members arranged food parcels for the local population. As the DVA expanded more veterans joined the pilgrimages. The accepted rule was you paid your own way there and joined fellow veterans at pre-booked Hotel and B&B accommodation. Some stayed with families they had met during the evacuation who had assisted them, taking the opportunity to repay kindnesses. These pilgrimages took place when large parts of the towns and villages were still exhibiting severe War damage and rebuilding had not fully started.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Remembrance services were held on beaches and in villages, towns, many conducted by the Reverend Leslie Aitken (later Right Rev. and MBE) who was the DVA first and only 'Padre' having been part of the founding group. (Aitken was the author of Massacre on the road to Dunkirk, detailing the murder by an SS company of 45 officers and men at Wormhoudt in France.)


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
In 1956 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother agreed to be the patron and attended the 1957 pilgrimage, unveiling the Dunkirk Memorial and taking the salute at a march past of DVA members in the Place de Jean Bart in Dunkirk. Over 1000 veterans paraded.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
At its peak membership in the mid 1970s over 20,000 veterans from the UK, with increasing numbers of ex-patriates and Commonwealth Dunkirk Veterans, would make the pilgrimage trip each year to honour their fallen comrades.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Distinguished DVA members included General James Steele, General Ashton Wade, Brigadier General James Gawthorpe, Squadron Leader Douglas Bader and Donald Kaberry (later Lord Kaberry of Adel).


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Royal patronage continued with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh taking the salute at the 40th anniversary parade in May 1980 in Folkestone.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Official 1940 DVA organised pilgrimages (arranged by Harold Robinson MBE) continued every year until 1988 (when he died in office) then became locally organised by branches until the 60th anniversary in 2000 when the association was disbanded centrally on 30 June in light of an aging and decreasing membership. Some local branches maintained contact between members until time took its toll.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
At its height, the 1940 Dunkirk Veterans Association had over 165,000 members worldwide, with over 100 branches in the UK, 20+ branches across the USA and Canada, 25+ branches across Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, 12 branches across South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia at the time they were created) Kenya, Tanzania, branches in Gibraltar, Malta, Brazil and Argentina.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Harold Robinson fostered links between veterans associations in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, promoting peace and comradeship between old soldiers. During the 1970s, when the British veterans became eligible for the Dunkirk Medal, he vetted all applications, processed and issued over 100,000 medals on behalf of the Dunkirk Town Council.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Upon his death in October 1988, his funeral was held at St Michael's and All Angels church, Headingley, Leeds. It was attended by over 2500 people, requiring a p.a system for the crowds outside. Attendees included The Lord Mayors of Leeds, Bradford, Dover, Folkestone, Margate, Ramsgate, the entire town councils and mayor's of Dunkirk, De Panne and Calais. Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Lord Kaberry of Adel (representing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) local MPs, DVA members from all UK branches bringing the branch standards, plus representative members from many overseas branches.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
The Yorkshire Regiment supplied an overnight guard of honour for the coffin in the church and paraded with the DVA at the start of the service. Many ex-pupils, taught through his 35years as a teacher, also attended. The service was conducted by the Right Reverend Leslie Aitken, the DVA padre and was followed by a private family cremation at Lawnswood Cemetery.


1940 Dunkirk Veterans' Association
Harold Robinson received many accolades during his life, including the MBE. Chevalier D'Honour, The Freedom of Dunkirk, The Freedom of De Panne. The Flandres-Dunkirk award, and awards from many other countries for his veteran support work. He occupied varying additional posts including 20 yrs as Chairman of the Headingley Branch of the Royal British Legion, Leeds Poppy Appeal organiser for the RBL, Parade Marshall for Leeds City Remembrance Day Parade, Council member of SAFA, regional Council member of RBL, and was also a hospice visitor for veterans. He spoke seven languages fluently and could 'get by' in several more, taught thousands of children and was married for 43 years to Eileen Robinson who died only eight months after him.


1940 Duquesne Dukes football team
The 1940 Duquesne Dukes football team was an American football team that represented Duquesne University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its second season under head coach Aldo Donelli, Duquesne compiled a 7–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 118 to 54.


1940 East Asian Games
The 1940 East Asian Games was a multi-sport event organised by the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAA) as part of the 2600th Anniversary Since Kigen celebrations commemorating the establishment of the Japanese Empire by Emperor Jimmu. The games were meant to be a replacement to the cancelled 1940 Summer Olympics originally to be hosted by Japan.


1940 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 1940 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented represented East Carolina Teachers College (now known as East Carolina University) as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their first season under head coach John Christenbury, the team compiled a 5–3 record.


1940 East Renfrewshire by-election
The 1940 East Renfrewshire by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 9 May 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of East Renfrewshire in Scotland.


1940 East Renfrewshire by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Unionist Member of Parliament (MP), the Marquess of Clydesdale, succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Hamilton. He had been East Renfrewshire's MP since winning the seat at a by-election in 1930.


1940 East Renfrewshire by-election, Candidates
During the Second World War unopposed by-elections were common, since the major parties had agreed not to contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by the other parties; contests occurred only when independent candidates or minor parties chose to stand.


1940 East Renfrewshire by-election, Candidates
The Unionist candidate in East Renfrewshire, Guy Lloyd, therefore did not face a Labour Party or Liberal candidate. However, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) did not support the electoral truce, and Annie Maxton (sister of ILP leader James Maxton) stood as an ILP candidate in the by-election.


1940 East Renfrewshire by-election, Results
On a much-reduced turnout, the result was a massive victory for Lloyd, who won 80.7% of the votes. He remained East Renfrewshire's MP until he stepped down at the 1959 election.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season
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1940 Eastern Suburbs season
The 1940 Eastern Suburbs DRLFC season was the 33rd in the club's history. Coached by Dave Brown and captained by Ray Stehr they competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1940 season, finishing the season in 1st place (out of 8 teams) and successfully defeating Canterbury-Bankstown in the final to claim their 8th premiership.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Details
Led by forward Ray Stehr, there was still plenty of talent left in the East's side of 1940 and they went on to take the minor premiership, before gaining revenge on Canterbury, claiming their fourth titles in six seasons.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Details
The line-up for the 1940 season included: Jack Arnold * Wal Bamford * Doug Bartlett * Dave Brown * William Brew * S.Callaghan * Owen Campbell * John Clarke * Dick Dunn * Noel Hollingdale * Sel Lisle * Fred May * K.McLean * Andy Norval * Rod O'Loan * Henry 'harry' Pierce * Sid 'Joe' Pearce * Ray Stehr.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Final Series, Semi Final
Eastern Suburbs semi-final against St George was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The match was played in strong wind & heavy rain. The Tricolurs progressed to the premiership decider by defeating St George 10 points to 3.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Final Series, Semi Final
Eastern Suburbs 10 (A. Norval, D. Dunn tries; D. Bartlett 2 goals)


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Final Series, Premiership Final
Eastern Suburbs captain-coach  Dave Brown , still suffering the effects of a leg injury that had kept him out of the Roosters semi-final victory over St George, was forced to withdraw on the morning of the match. His replacement, William Brew, scored the opening try early in the match, after backing up second rower Sid "Joe" Pearce. At the break Canterbury only trailed by two. However East's ended any hopes of a comeback, scoring just after the resumption. The match was never in any danger of being lost from that point, with Eastern suburb's burly forwards storming away in the latter stages. The young Easts side had an average age of just 20 years. They overcame Canterbury by six tries to two.


1940 Eastern Suburbs season, Final Series, Premiership Final
Eastern Suburbs 24 (Tries: Pierce 2, O'Loan, Brew, Pearce, Clarke. Goals: Dunn 2 )


1940 Eastern Washington Savages football team
The 1940 Eastern Washington Savages football team represented Eastern Washington University. The team was coached by Red Reese who was in his tenth season with Eastern Washington. The Savages played their home games at Woodward Field in Cheney, Washington .


1940 Ecuadorian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ecuador on 10 and 11 January 1940. The result was a victory for Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party, who received 53% of the vote.


1940 Edmonton municipal election
The 1940 municipal election was held November 13, 1940 to elect a mayor and seven aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council. Elections for school trustees were not held, as candidates for both the public and separate boards were acclaimed.


1940 Edmonton municipal election
There were ten aldermen on city council, but three of the positions were already filled: George Campbell (SS), Edward Brown, and Dan Knott were all elected to two-year terms in 1939 and were still in office. Frederick Casselman and Douglas Grout (SS) had also been elected to two-year terms in 1939, but had resigned; accordingly, Charles Gariepy and Blair Paterson (SS) were elected to one-year terms.


1940 Edmonton municipal election
There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled:  M Downey (SS), Bruce Smith, R L Sutherland, and Albert Ottewell (SS) had been elected to two-year terms in 1939 and were still in office. The same was true of the separate board, where Romeo Bouchard, Hugh Currie, Robert Tighe, and William Wilde (SS) were continuing.


1940 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout
There were 14,523 ballots cast out of 56,225 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 25.8%.


1940 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Public school trustees
Izena Ross, E M Gunderson, and W G McConachie were acclaimed.


1940 Edmonton municipal election, Results, Separate (Catholic) school trustees
Adrien Crowe (SS), James O’Hara, and J O Pilon were acclaimed.


1940 El Centro earthquake
The 1940 El Centro earthquake (or 1940 Imperial Valley earthquake) occurred at 21:35 Pacific Standard Time on May 18 (05:35 UTC on May 19) in the Imperial Valley in southeastern Southern California near the international border of the United States and Mexico. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It was the first major earthquake to be recorded by a strong-motion seismograph located next to a fault rupture. The earthquake was characterized as a typical moderate-sized destructive event with a complex energy release signature. It was the strongest recorded earthquake to hit the Imperial Valley, and caused widespread damage to irrigation systems and led to the deaths of nine people.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Salton Trough is part of the complex plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate where it undergoes a transition from the continental transform of the San Andreas Fault system to the series of short spreading centers of the East Pacific Rise linked by oceanic transforms in the Gulf of California. The two main right lateral strike-slip fault strands that extend across the southern part of the trough are the Elsinore Fault Zone/Laguna Salada Fault to the western side of the trough and the Imperial Fault to the east. The Imperial Fault is linked to the San Andreas Fault through the Brawley Seismic Zone, which is a spreading center beneath the southern end of the Salton Sea.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Tectonic setting
With the San Jacinto Fault Zone to the west, the Elsinore fault to the south-southwest, and the Imperial fault centered directly under the Imperial Valley, the area frequently encounters seismic activity, including moderate and damaging earthquakes. Other events in 1852, 1892, 1915, 1942, 1979, and 1987 have impacted the region in varying degrees.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was the result of a rupture along the Imperial Fault, with its epicenter 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Calexico, California. A strong secondary quake with a magnitude of 5.5 followed a little more than an hour after the main shock and was centered near Brawley.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times shortly after the earthquake, Dr. Beno Gutenberg, a geophysicist and professor at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena, prematurely reported that the source of the quake was the San Jacinto Fault and compared the earthquake to the 1933 Long Beach earthquake saying "The energy of the Imperial Vally shock was less, and it should have done less damage, than the one of 1933, even had it occurred in an area of greater population." The Imperial Fault had not been previously differentiated from the other faults in the area by geologists until after the earthquake occurred.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
The event caused significant damage in the towns of Brawley, Imperial, El Centro, Calexico and Mexicali and was responsible for the deaths of nine people. Imperial appeared to receive the most damage and was described as "razed" with at least 80% of the buildings in that city being damaged, and at least two people being killed there. It was felt as far afield as Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
The earthquake also caused substantial damage to irrigation systems over a very wide area of the valley, with the canals of the Imperial Irrigation District being breached in multiple locations. With ninety percent of the damage done to the canals south of the international border, water rationing became necessary in Brawley and Imperial during the days following the earthquake spanning the restoration period. The canals brought water from the Mexican side of the border to the United States and supplied 3000 miles of irrigation waterways and ditches in the Imperial Valley. The primary trunkline was the Alamo Canal and it sustained nine breaks, each several hundred feet in length, along a twenty-mile stretch between Sharp's heading and Cudahy check.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
In Mexico, a 427 m (1,401 ft) long wooden flume was completely destroyed south of Mexicali where the Solfatara canal crossed the New River, and water storage tanks were destroyed at Imperial and Holtville. The railroad system also suffered damage, with bent rails and damage to several bridges. The heaviest damage in Mexicali, the capital of the State of Baja California, was a fire which destroyed a hotel there. The fire was blamed on a short circuit.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion
A strong-motion seismograph at El Centro recorded the earthquake and provided the first example of such a recording made very close to a fault rupture in a major earthquake. This gave a detailed record of the different types of shaking associated with the earthquake. It is often used in design of earthquake-proof structures today, particularly for the time history analysis method.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion
The recording showed that the earthquake consisted of several sub-events, with a total of 13 being recorded in just over five minutes. A 1970 report on the earthquake in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America defined an event as "any occurrence of energy release which generates seismic phases that can be resolved and identified" then stated that the size of those discrete events were abnormally strong for regular aftershocks. The majority of the energy released during the earthquake occurred in the first fifteen seconds, although significant energy was released as late as the last of those events, near the 5:20 mark on the seismograph record.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Earthquake, Surface rupture
A surface rupture was formed during the earthquake of 40–60 km (25–37 mi), with a maximum recorded displacement of 4.5 m (15 ft) close to the border. The sense of movement along the rupture was almost pure strike-slip, with no vertical displacement seen. During the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake the same section of the fault ruptured on the US side of the border, but this time there was no sign of rupture on the Mexican side. The displacement pattern of the two earthquakes was very similar on the US side, suggesting that the Imperial Fault slips in discrete patches. Two of these patches are thought to have ruptured in 1940 but only the northern one in 1979.


1940 El Centro earthquake, Aftermath
Soon after the earthquake, reconstruction efforts were concentrated on repairing the Alamo and Solfatara irrigation canals to save the cantaloupe crop, and the water supply was restored in less than four days.


1940 Emperor's Cup, Overview
It was contested by 8 teams, and Keio BRB won the championship.


1940 Emperor's Cup Final
1940 Emperor's Cup Final was the 20th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Meiji Jingu Gaien Stadium in Tokyo on May 26, 1940. Keio BRB won the championship.


1940 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview
Keio BRB won the championship, by defeating Waseda WMW 1–0. Keio BRB won the title for 2 years in a row. Keio BRB was featured a squad consisting of Yukio Tsuda, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Saburo Shinosaki and Takashi Kasahara. Waseda WMW was featured a squad consisting of Kunitaka Sueoka, Taizo Kawamoto, Motoo Tatsuhara, Hidetoki Takahashi and Takashi Kano.


1940 English Greyhound Derby
The 1940 Greyhound Derby took place during June and July with the final being held on Monday 8 July 1940 at Harringay Stadium. The winner G.R.Archduke, owned by Mr. O.G Leach, received a first prize of £1,000. The event took place at Harringay because the traditional venue of White City was closed after the first round due to the war. This Derby became known as the 'Silent Derby' due to the impending war and following the final the Derby was postponed until 1945.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances
Neck, ½, 1, 1, 1 (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. From 1927 to 1950 one length was equal to 0.06 of one second but race times are shown as 0.08 as per modern day calculations.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Review
The Derby finally got the go ahead to take place after problems concerning a possible government ban on racing. Main protagonists heading for White City on 18 June included defending champion Highland Rum, Junior Classic and 1939 Irish Greyhound Derby runner up Irish Rambler.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Review
The heats got underway and Rock Callan recorded the fastest time, a fast 29.26, Highland Rum, Junior Classic and Irish Rambler all won their heats. The GRA ban on racing at White City left the competition in limbo because the ban came into effect after the first round. It was announced that the Derby was to continue at Harringay which upset many including MP's and the national press.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Review
Just four days later the second round did take place at Harringay. Keel Creamery (5-2) and Proof Spirit II (4-1) trained by W Lacey at Walthamstow Stadium provided the first two winners. Roving Youth (11-8f) claimed the third heat and only Rock Callan (10-11f) progressed unbeaten. Defending champion Highland Rum finished third in his race but fell afoul of the stewards and was disqualified for fighting which allowed the fourth place greyhound G.R Archduke to make it through to the semi-finals in his place. Junior Classic was also eliminated at this stage.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Review
The first semi-final went to Keel Creamery (4-1) from Duna Taxmaid and favourite Roving Youth in 29.69. GR Archduke born at the GRA Hook kennels at Northaw was a shock winner of the second semi-final at odds of 10–1; Rock Callan a strong 5-4f, finished half a length behind with Irish Rambler another half back.


1940 English Greyhound Derby, Review
GR Archduke soon led Irish Rambler around the first bend in the final, the pair challenged until the fourth bend when Irish Rambler faded and Duna Taxmaid showed and challenged on the run in, GR Archduke moved wide towards Duna Taxmaid but held on by a neck. There was an opinion that GR Archduke, who had previously been disqualified in his career, had fought again, a view opposed by the Greyhound Express. Owner Mr O.G.Leach would hold the trophy for four years until the return of the event in 1945.


1940 Estonian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 14 and 15 July 1940 alongside simultaneous elections in Latvia and Lithuania. The elections followed the Soviet occupation of the three countries. As was the case in Latvia and Lithuania, the elections in Estonia were blatantly rigged. They were also unconstitutional, since only seats for the lower chamber of the Riigikogu, the Chamber of Deputies, were contested; the upper chamber, the National Council, was never reconvened. According to August Rei, one of independent Estonia's last envoys to Moscow, under the Estonian constitution, the Chamber of Deputies had "no legislative power" apart from the National Council.


1940 Estonian parliamentary election
The Estonian Working People's Union, a Communist front group, was the only party allowed to run, and won all 80 seats with 92.8% of the votes cast, the other 7.2% being invalid. The newly elected "People's Riigikogu" declared the Estonian SSR on 21 July and requested admission to the Soviet Union the following day. The request was approved by the Soviet government on 6 August.


1940 Estonian parliamentary election, Background
The elections followed the Soviet occupation of Estonia in June. The Communist Party established the Estonian Working People's Union to run in the elections, whilst despite having only three days to organise, the opposition put forward 78 candidates in 66 of the 80 Riigikogu constituencies. However, Prime Minister Johannes Vares was ordered by Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov to remove opposition candidates from the ballot. Opposition candidates were required to present a manifesto within a few hours, which most of them did. However, almost all were subsequently removed by a mixture of threats, violence and invalidations. Only one opposition candidate remained; Jüri Rajur-Liivak, who was later arrested along with the other removed candidates.


1940 Estonian parliamentary election, Conduct
On the first day of the election the main daily newspaper Rahva Hääl told readers that "it would be extremely unwise to shirk elections... Only people's enemies stay at home on election day." Red Army troops were present in the polling stations in Tartu.


1940 Estonian parliamentary election, Results
During the German occupation of Estonia during World War II the figures from the election were re-examined. Voter turnout was found to have been 80.1%, and the proportion of total votes for the Working People's Union was revised down to 91.6%. The distortions in the official figures were caused by officials artificially reducing the number of registered voters and counting invalid votes as valid ones, as well as assigning votes received by Rajur-Liivak to the Working People's Union. Additional evidence was uncovered that the Election Committee had forged 35,119 votes.


1940 Faroese general election
General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 30 January 1940. The Union Party emerged as the largest party in the Løgting, winning 8 of the 24 seats.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony
The 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony refers to a promotion ceremony held at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin in which Adolf Hitler promoted twelve generals to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall ("field marshal") on 19 July 1940. It was the first occasion in World War II that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony
The prestigious rank of field marshal had been banned after World War I. As part of German re-armament, the rank was revived. Hitler promoted twelve selected generals to field marshal during the ceremony in Berlin for their role in the swift victory in the Battle of France and to raise morale. The ceremony highlighted the power and prestige of the Wehrmacht; France was considered to have had the strongest army in Europe, yet had been humiliatingly defeated in just six weeks. The ceremony was the first time Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements and was celebrated like no other promotion ceremony of the war.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony
During the same ceremony, Göring, already Generalfeldmarschall since 1938, was promoted to the rank, newly-created especially for him, of Reichsmarschall.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Field marshal
After World War I, the prestigious rank of field marshal was banned in the Weimar Republic, alongside other restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. After Hitler and the Nazi Party came to national power in January 1933, they began an expansion of the military; it was part of Hitler's desire to restore the army's power and prestige. In 1936, he revived the rank of field marshal. It was the highest and most prestigious military rank in Germany, originally only for the use of the Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The traditional attribute distinguishing a German field marshal was an ornately decorated baton. More tangible benefits included a yearly salary of 36,000 Reichsmarks for life (a Field Marshal was deemed never to retire, but to remain permanently on active duty) and all earnings being exempt from income tax.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Ceremony
Flushed with enthusiasm by the swift defeat of the French army, considered to have been the strongest in Europe, and the Low Countries in June 1940, Hitler wanted to mark the occasion with a grand promotion ceremony. He also hoped the promotions would strengthen his influence over the traditional German General Staff. The twelve generals chosen for promotion, who all had played an important role in the victory, were (with the position they occupied during the Battle of France):


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Ceremony
In particular, all Army Group commanders were promoted Field Marshal. In the case of Kesselring and Sperrle, the rank of Colonel General was bypassed. The commanders-in-chief of Navy and Air Force, Erich Raeder and Hermann Göring respectively, were not promoted Field Marshals because they already held the rank (or its equivalent Grand Admiral respectively). Given that Field Marshal was no longer as exceptional a rank as it was before, Göring, however, to satisfy his thirst for prestige, was promoted to the specially created rank of Reich Marshal. This made Göring the senior officer of the military, without, however, making him an actual superior of Army and Navy. It was the only award of this rank during the Nazi era, and it was abolished after the fall of the Nazi regime.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Ceremony
On 19 July 1940, Hitler summoned the generals to a ceremony in Berlin's Kroll Opera House (which housed the Reichstag after the Reichstag fire). After a speech regarding a peace proposal directed at Britain, Hitler personally rewarded his generals with their expensively decorated batons, and thanked them for their contributions to the victory.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Ceremony
The 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony was the first occasion Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements and was celebrated like no other promotion ceremony in Germany. The remaining five years of the war saw an additional twelve promotions, most of which were without ceremony, such as Friedrich Paulus's promotion, which was conferred over the radio by Hitler.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Aftermath
All of the generals promoted went on to achieve further success in their careers during the early years of victory which the German military obtained in the Second World War. Brauchitsch, Bock, Kesselring, Keitel, Leeb, List, Reichenau, Rundstedt, and Göring would all play decisive and important roles in the German-led Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Sperrle spent the rest of the war in semi-retirement, based with his unit in France. Milch was transferred to the production department and was responsible for aircraft production until the end of the war.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Aftermath
Following his avid extermination of Jews in the autumn of 1941 (Severity Order, Babi Yar), Reichenau died on 14 January 1942. In 1943, after a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, and the Allied invasion of Italy, the German military lost all initiative. Hitler's leadership became increasingly disconnected from reality as the war turned against Germany, with the military's defensive strategies often hindered by his slow decision making and frequent directives to hold untenable positions.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Aftermath
His response to the worsening war situation was to unceremoniously sack general after general, a routine which ultimately affected the field marshals promoted at the ceremony. Erwin von Witzleben and Günther von Kluge were both involved in the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. After it became clear that the assassination attempt had failed, Kluge committed suicide by taking cyanide poison on 17 August 1944. Witzleben was to have become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht if the attempt had succeeded.


1940 Field Marshal Ceremony, Aftermath
He was arrested, stripped of his rank and expelled from the Army so that he could be tried in a civilian court, and sentenced to death; the execution was carried out on 8 August 1944. On 4 May 1945, less than a week before Nazi Germany surrendered, Bock died of wounds inflicted the day before by a strafing British fighter-bomber.


1940 Fijian general election
General elections were held in Fiji on 20 July 1940.


1940 Fijian general election, Electoral system
The Legislative Council consisted of 32 members, including 16 'official' members who were civil servants, fifteen 'unofficial' members (five Europeans, five Fijians and five Indo-Fijians), and the Governor sitting as President of the Council.


1940 Fijian general election, Electoral system
For Europeans and Indo-Fijians, three of the five representatives were elected from single-member constituencies, with the other two appointed by the Governor. All five Fijian members were appointed from a list of ten candidates submitted by the Great Council of Chiefs.


1940 Fijian general election, Electoral system
Voting for Europeans remained restricted to men aged 21 or over who had been born to European parents (or a European father and was able to read, speak and write English), who were British subjects and had been continuously resident in Fiji for 12 months, and who either owned at least £20 of freehold or leasehold property or had an annual income of at least £120. For Indo-Fijians, eligibility was also restricted to men aged 21 or over.


1940 Fijian general election, Electoral system
They had to be a British subject or from British India, have lived continuously in the Fiji for at least two years, be able to read or write in English, Gujarati, Gurmukhi,  Hindi, Tamil, Telegu or Urdu, and for the previous six months, have either owned property with an annual value of five years, had a net annual cash income of at least £75, or held a Government or municipal licence worth at least £5 annually.


1940 Fijian general election, Electoral system
In both ethnic categories, civil servants were barred from voting.


1940 Finnish presidential election
Early and indirect presidential elections were held in Finland in 1940 after President Kyösti Kallio resigned on 27 November following a stroke on 27 August. The 1937 electoral college was recalled and elected Prime Minister Risto Ryti, who received 288 of the 300 votes. Most other Finnish politicians considered Ryti a principled, unselfish, intelligent and patriotic man, who could lead Finland effectively enough during World War II. His leadership qualities had been tested already during the Winter War (November 1939–March 1940). Also the outgoing President Kallio considered him the best available presidential candidate.


1940 Finnish presidential election
In early December 1940, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, interfered with the Finnish presidential elections by claiming to the Finnish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, J.K. Paasikivi, that if potential presidential candidates such as Marshal Mannerheim, former President Svinhufvud or former Prime Minister Kivimäki were elected President, the Soviet government would consider Finland unwilling to fulfill its peace treaty with the Soviet Union. Due to the lingering threat of another war and the Karelian refugees' dispersal throughout Finland, regular presidential elections were cancelled, and instead the 1937 presidential electors were summoned to elect the President. Under these tense political circumstances, Ryti had no problem winning these exceptional presidential elections by a landslide. The same day, former president Kallio died.


1940 Florida Gators football team
The 1940 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1940 college football season. The season was the first of four for Tom Lieb as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Lieb was the former coach of the Loyola Lions, and had previously served as Knute Rockne's primary assistant and on-the-field replacement while Rockne was in the hospital during most of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish's 1930 national championship season.


1940 Florida Gators football team
The highlights of the Gators' 1940 season included victories over the Maryland Terrapins (19–0), the Georgia Bulldogs (18–13), the Miami Hurricanes (46–6) and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (16–7). Lieb's 1940 Florida Gators finished with a 5–5 overall record and a 2–3 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing eighth among thirteen SEC teams.


1940 Florida gubernatorial election
The 1940 Florida gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Governor Fred P. Cone was term-limited. Democratic nominee Spessard Holland was elected unopposed.


1940 Florida gubernatorial election, Primary elections
Primary elections were held on May 7, 1940, with the Democratic runoff held on May 28, 1940.


1940 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR
The 1940 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1940 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine.


1940 Football League War Cup Final
The 1940 Football League War Cup Final was contested by West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers. It was played on 8 June 1940 and kicked off at 6.30pm despite fears that London would be bombed by the Luftwaffe. The wartime crowd included wounded members of the BEF recently evacuated from Dunkirk. West Ham won the tie 1–0; the only goal coming from Sam Small in the 34th minute when he followed up a parried shot from George Foreman.


1940 Football League War Cup Final, Post Match
The trophy was presented to the winning team by A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty.


1940 Football League War Cup Final, Post Match
As the match was played during wartime, no reception was held for the winning team. Some players went to the Boleyn public house on Green Street for a few pints whilst others returned immediately to their service units.


1940 Fordham Rams football team
The 1940 Fordham Rams football team represented Fordham University during the 1940 college football season. The Rams finished the regular season ranked twelfth and played in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year's Day, a 13–12 loss to sixth-ranked Texas A&M.


1940 French Oceanian referendum
An unofficial referendum on whether to support the Free French or the Vichy regime was held in the French Oceanian islands of Mo'orea and Tahiti on 24 August 1940. The referendum was held following a call from Charles de Gaulle to oppose the Vichy government on 18 June, and was organised by the underground Free France Committee.


1940 French Oceanian referendum
Over 99% of voters supported backing the Free French Forces, with just 18 people voting in favour of the Vichy regime. Following the referendum, the pro-Vichy governor Frédéric Marie Jean Baptiste Chastenet de Géry was forced to resign on 2 September. On the same day the Free France Committee formed the Provisional Council of Oceania to rule the island group, which was recognised by De Gaulle by a telegram sent from London. Peter Fraser, the Prime Minister of New Zealand also sent a telegram noting great satisfaction at the result. The new administration on the islands lifted the ban on British shipping, allowing imports of food.


1940 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented Fresno State Normal School during the 1940 college football season.


1940 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
Fresno State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by fifth-year head coach James Bradshaw and played home games at Fresno State College Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of nine wins, two losses and one tie (9–2–1, 1–1–1 CCAA). The Bulldogs outscored their opponents 132–52 for the season, including six shutouts and holding the other team to less than 10 points in 10 of 12 games.


1940 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
At the end of the season, the Bulldogs made a two-game trip to Hawaii, including the January 1, 1941 Pineapple Bowl game vs. Hawaii. Fresno State did not give up a point in either of the two games in Hawaii.


1940 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Team players in the NFL
The following Fresno State Bulldog players were selected in the 1941 NFL Draft.


1940 George Washington Colonials football team
The 1940 George Washington Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its third season under head coach William Reinhart, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record and was outscored by a total of 82 to 78.


1940 Georgetown Hoyas football team
The 1940 Georgetown Hoyas football team represented Georgetown University during the 1940 college football season. The Hoyas were led by ninth-year head coach Jack Hagerty and played their home games at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.. The team carried into the year a two-year, 16-game unbeaten streak, which ended at 23 games after a tightly contested loss to eventual co-national champion Boston College. Georgetown ended the regular season with a record of 8–1, ranked 13th in the AP Poll, the only ranked finish in Hoyas team history. They were invited to the 1941 Orange Bowl, where they lost to Mississippi State, 7–14.


1940 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1940 college football season.


1940 Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football team
The 1940 Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football team represented the Georgia Teachers College—now known as Georgia Southern University—during the 1940 college football season. The team was led by Crook Smith in his 12th year as head coach.


1940 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 1940 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1940 college football season.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1940 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1940, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor Eurith D. Rivers was term-limited, and ineligible to run for a third term.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election
As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran with only token opposition in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The Democratic primary election was held on September 11, 1940. As Talmadge won a majority of county unit votes, there was no run-off.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, County unit system
From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, County unit system
The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, County unit system
Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis.


1940 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, County unit system
Candidates were required to obtain a majority of unit votes (not necessarily a majority of the popular vote), or 206 total unit votes, to win the election. If no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates to determine a winner.


1940 German Ice Hockey Championship
The 1940 German Ice Hockey Championship was the 24th season of the German Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Germany. 10 teams participated in the championship, and Wiener EG won the title.


1940 German football championship
The  1940 German football championship, the 33rd edition of the competition, was won by Schalke 04, the club's fifth German championship, by defeating Dresdner SC 1–0 in the final. Both clubs would continue to be strong sides during the Second World War editions of the German championship with Schalke making a losing appearance in the 1941 final before winning again in 1942 while Dresden was crowned German champions in 1943 and 1944.


1940 German football championship
Schalke's 16–0 win over CSC 03 Kassel in the group stages was the highest win in the history of the German championship as well as the most goals scored in a game.


1940 German football championship
Rapid Wien's Franz Binder became the 1940 championships top scorer with 14 goals, a new record that would be broken the following year by Schalke's Hermann Eppenhoff when he scored 15 goals.


1940 German football championship
The eighteen 1939–40 Gauliga champions, the same number as in 1939, competed in a group stage with the four group winners advancing to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners then contested the 1940 championship final. The groups were divided into three with four clubs and one with six clubs with the latter, in turn, subdivided into two groups of three teams each and a final of these group winners to determine the overall group champions.


1940 German football championship
In the following season, the German championship was played with twenty clubs. From there it gradually expanded further through a combination of territorial expansion of Nazi Germany and the sub-dividing of the Gauligas in later years, reaching a strength of thirty-one in its last completed season, 1943–44.


1940 German football championship, Competition, Group 1, Group 1A
Group 1A was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Brandenburg, Ostpreußen and Pommern:


1940 German football championship, Competition, Group 1, Group 1B
Group 1B was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Ostmark, Schlesien and Sudetenland:


1940 German football championship, Competition, Group 2
Group 2 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Mitte, Niedersachsen, Nordmark and Sachsen:


1940 German football championship, Competition, Group 3
Group 3 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Hessen, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein and Westfalen:


1940 German football championship, Competition, Group 4
Group 4 was contested by the champions of the Gauligas Bayern, Baden, Südwest and Württemberg:


1940 German football championship, Competition, Semi-finals
Two of the four clubs in the 1940 semi-finals had reached the same stage in the previous season, Dresdner SC and FC Schalke 04, while Rapid Wien replaced Admira Wien and SV Waldhof Mannheim Hamburger SV in comparison to 1939:


1940 Giro d'Italia
The 1940 Giro d'Italia was the 28th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 17 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 180 km (112 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 9 June after a 180 km (112 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,574 km (2,221 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Fausto Coppi of the Legnano team, with fellow Italians Enrico Mollo and Giordano Cottur coming in second and third respectively.


1940 Giro d'Italia
It was won by Fausto Coppi, at his first participation. Coppi, who was 20 years old at the time, is still the youngest winner of the Giro.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Participants
Of the 91 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 17 May, 47 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 9 June May. Riders were allowed to ride as a member of a team or group; 41 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 50 competed as a part of a group. The eight teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Legnano, Gloria, Olympia, Lygie, Gerbi. Each team started with either six or seven riders.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Participants
The Ganna team did not start the race due to the team's Belgian riders not being cleared to enter the country. There were also seven groups, made up of three to five riders each, that participated in the race. Those groups were: S. C. Binda, G. S. Battisti-Aquilano, U. S. Azzini-Universal, Cicli Viscontea, Dopolavoro Az. Bemberg, U. C. Modenese, Il Littoriale, Dopolavoro Az. Vismara, S. S. Parioli, and G. S. Mater.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Participants
The peloton was composed primarily of Italian riders. The field featured two former Giro d'Italia winners with two-time winners Gino Bartali and Giovanni Valetti, who was the reigning champion. Bartali studied the route for the Giro intensely during the winter before the race and during reconnaissance rides, he befriended local business owners with the hopes of contacting for local road and weather conditions during the race. Other notable Italian riders included Olimpio Bizzi, Ezio Cecchi, and Fausto Coppi. The only non-Italian riders to compete in the race were Luxembourgian Christophe Didier and Swiss rider Walter Diggelmann. Bartali and Valetti were both seen a strong contenders for the overall title.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
During the second stage, Bartali crashed into a dog that ran onto the road, throwing him from the bike. He returned to his bike, but a doctor examination after finishing the stage, led the diagnosis of a strained muscle and a recommendation to withdraw from the race. Bartali elected to remain the race, but knew he could not win.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner. If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification. The group classification was decided in the same manner, but the classification was exclusive to the competing groups.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.


1940 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, Group classification
Giovanni De Stefanis won the special category prize which was the best ranked group rider in the general classification.


1940 Glasgow Pollok by-election
The Glasgow Pollok by-election, 1940 was held on 30 April 1940 in the Glasgow Pollok constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The election was caused by the death of the previous MP, Sir John Gilmour.


1940 Glasgow Pollok by-election
As with other by-elections in the war period, the incumbent party was given a clear run by the other major parties.


1940 Glasgow Pollok by-election
It was won by Thomas Galbraith of the Unionist Party (Scotland). His only opponent came from a local Labour party -which had been disaffiliated by the party's National Executive Committee for breaking the electoral truce - and stood as an Independent Labour candidate.


1940 Gonzaga Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Gonzaga Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Gonzaga University during the 1940 college football season. In their second year under head coach Puggy Hunton, the Bulldogs compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 133 to 79.


1940 Gonzaga Bulldogs football team
Senior halfback Tony Canadeo was the star of Gonzaga's 1940 team. He later played 11 seasons for the Green Bay Packers and was inducted in 1974 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1940 Governor General's Awards
The 1940 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the fifth rendition of the Governor General's Awards, Canada's annual national awards program which then comprised literary awards alone. The awards recognized Canadian writers for new English-language works published in Canada during 1940 and were presented in 1941. There were no cash prizes.


1940 Governor General's Awards
There was one award in each of three established categories, which recognized English-language works only.


1940 Grand National
The 1940 Grand National was the 99th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 5 April 1940.


1940 Grand National
Thirty horses ran in the steeplechase, which was won by Bogskar, a 25/1 shot ridden by Royal Air Force sergeant Mervyn Jones. MacMoffat finished in second place, Gold Arrow was third, and Symaethis fourth.


1940 Grand National
It was the last true Aintree Grand National before a five-year break due to World War II.


1940 Green Bay Packers season
The 1940 Green Bay Packers season was their 22nd season overall and their 20th season in the National Football League. The defending NFL champions, Green Bay finished with a 6–4–1 record under founder and head coach Curly Lambeau, earning them a second-place finish in the Western Conference.


1940 Green Bay Packers season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1940 Hardin–Simmons Cowboys football team
The 1940 Hardin–Simmons Cowboys football team represented Hardin–Simmons University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its sixth and final season under head coach Frank Kimbrough, the team compiled a perfect 9–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 235 to 76, and was ranked No. 17 in the final AP Poll. In January 1941, Coach Kimbrough left Hardin–Simmons to become head football coach at Baylor University. Kimbrough compiled a 47–8–3 in six seasons at Hardin-Simmons.


1940 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1940 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled a 3–2–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 77 to 49. The team played its home games at Harvard Stadium in Boston.


1940 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1940 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 16th season in the Victorian Football League and 39th overall.


1940 Hawthorn Football Club season, Fixture, Patriotic Premiership
The VFL between Rounds 14 and 15 played a one-day lightning carnival, Known as the Patriotic Premiership, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to raise money for the Patriotic Fund. The matches played were twenty minutes long with no time-on.


1940 Heywood and Radcliffe by-election
The Heywood and Radcliffe by-election of 1940 was held on 28 August 1940. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Richard Porritt. It was won by the Conservative candidate James Wootton-Davies, who was elected unopposed.


1940 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1940 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its second year under head coach Joe Sheeketski, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record. The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1940 Homestead Grays season
The 1940 Homestead Grays baseball team competed in the Negro National League during the 1940 baseball season. The Grays compiled a 34–19 (.642) record and won the Negro National League championship. The team played its home games at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.


1940 Homestead Grays season
First baseman Buck Leonard compiled a .369 batting average, .475 on-base percentage, and .619 slugging percentage with eight home runs and 48 RBIs in 49 games. Leonard was later admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame.


1940 Homestead Grays season
Third baseman Howard Easterling and center fielder Jerry Benjamin also had strong seasons at the plate with batting averages of .344 and .333, respectively.


1940 Homestead Grays season
Ray Brown led the pitching staff with a 16–2 win-loss record with a 1.88 earned run average (ERA) and 67 strikeouts. Brown was also inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.


1940 Homestead Grays season
Edsall Walker was the team's No. 2 pitcher. He compiled an 11–4 record with a 3.13 ERA and 69 strikeouts.


1940 Hong Kong municipal election
The 1940 Hong Kong municipal election was held on 29 February 1940 for the one of the 2 unofficial seats in the Urban Council of Hong Kong. It was the first contested election since the establishment of the Urban Council of Hong Kong and also the last one before the outbreak of the Pacific War. The next election to be held would be the 1952 election, twelve years later.


1940 Hong Kong municipal election, Overview
Only ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations, unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council, or categories of profession were entitled to vote at the election.


1940 Hong Kong municipal election, Overview
The two candidates were both from the Portuguese community in Hong Kong. Incumbent Dr. Roberto Alexandre de Castro Basto was proposed by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., LL.D., seconded by Major C. M. Manners, O.B.E. had held three terms of officer of three years each on the Urban Council which expired a few weeks ago. Dr. Alberto Maria Rodrigues, a University of Hong Kong graduate who later became the Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council, was proposed by Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Snr., seconded by Lt.-Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E..


1940 Hong Kong municipal election, Overview
The election took place in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 29 February. 682 eligible voters cast their votes but nine of them were declared invalid for various reasons. The Presiding Officer at the election was the Registrar Mr. L. R. Andrewes, assisted by Mr. W. R. N. Andrews, Miss Grace Ezra and three clerks.


1940 Hong Kong municipal election, Overview
Dr. Rodrigues defeated the incumbent Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto by 407 votes to 266 votes as the result.


1940 Howard Bulldogs football team
The 1940 Howard Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Howard College (now known as the Samford University) as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their first year under head coach William C. White, the team compiled a 4–5 record.


1940 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1940 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College during the 1940 college football season. They competed as an independent.


1940 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1940 Lumberjacks were led by head coach Herbert L. Hart in his third, and last season as head coach at Humboldt State. They played home games at Albee Stadium in Eureka, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of three wins and four losses (3–4). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 33–60 for the season.


1940 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
In three years under coach Hart the Lumberjacks compiled a record of 12–8 (.600).


1940 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 1940 NFL Draft.


1940 Idaho Vandals football team
The 1940 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1940 college football season. The Vandals were led by sixth-year head coach Ted Bank, and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at Neale Stadium, with one game in Boise at Public School Field.


1940 Idaho Vandals football team
The Vandals were 1–7–1 overall and lost all four conference games. They did not play any of the four teams from California or the Oregon Webfoots. In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, the Vandals suffered a thirteenth straight loss, falling 0–26 at homecoming in Moscow on November 2. Idaho's most recent win in the series was a fifteen years earlier in 1925 and the next was fourteen years away in 1954.


1940 Idaho Vandals football team
A week later, Idaho continued its rare three-year losing streak to Montana in the Little Brown Stein rivalry with a ten-point loss at Missoula. It improved the Grizzlies' record against the Vandals to 7–19–1 (.278). While Montana was in the PCC (through 1949), the loser of the game was frequently last in the conference standings. This was the seventh game of the season, and the first in which Idaho scored.


1940 Idaho Vandals football team
Bank was relieved of his coaching duties in January 1941, succeeded by Francis Schmidt of Ohio State.


1940 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference
No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; honorable mention were end Chace Anderson, tackle Glenn Rathbun, and guard Len Zenkevitch.


1940 Idaho gubernatorial election
The 1940 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Democratic nominee Chase A. Clark defeated incumbent Republican C. A. Bottolfsen with 50.48% of the vote.


1940 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1940 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 28th season under head coach Robert Zuppke, the Illini compiled a 1–7 record and finished in last place in the Big Ten Conference. Fullback George Bernhardt was selected as the team's most valuable player.


1940 Illinois elections
Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday, November 5, 1940.


1940 Illinois elections
While the Democratic ticket of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace won the state's electors in the presidential election, the election overall saw significant victories for the Republican Party. The Republican Party retained their control of the Illinois House, and flipped control of the Illinois Senate, as well as control of the executive offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts, and Treasurer, all of which had previously been under Democratic Party control. Democrats retained their hold on the executive office of Secretary of State. Additionally, Republicans won all seats up for election on the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Republicans also won the state's special United States Senate election and flipped 6 Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives.


1940 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout
In the primaries, 2,647,467 ballots were cast (1,503,706 Democratic and 1,143,761 Republican).


1940 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States President
Illinois voted for the Democratic ticket of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace.


1940 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States Senate
Republican Charles W. Brooks unseated Democrat James M. Slattery, who had been appointed to the seat left vacant by the death in office of Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis.


1940 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House
All 27 Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1940.


1940 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House
Republicans flipped six Democratic-held seats, making the composition of Illinois' House delegation 16 Republicans and 11 Democrats.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Governor
Before the primary, incumbent governor Henry Horner, a Democrat, opted not to seek a third term. In October, before the general election, his death in office made John Henry Stelle assume the governorship. However, Stelle had previously failed to win the Democratic nomination in the primary.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Lieutenant Governor
Incumbent lieutenant governor John Henry Stelle, a Democrat, did not seek reelection to a second term, instead opting to run for governor. H Republican Hugh W. Cross was elected to succeed him.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Attorney General
Incumbent Attorney General John Edward Cassidy, a Democrat appointed in 1938 after fellow Democrat Otto Kerner Sr. resigned to accept a federal judgeship, did not seek reelection to a full term. Republican George F. Barrett was elected to succeed him.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent second-term Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes, a Democrat, was reelected.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Secretary of State, Republican primary
Justus L. Johnson won the Republican primary, defeating businessman Richard Yates Rowe and Illinois state senator Arthur J. Bidwill.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Auditor of Public Accounts
Incumbent third-term Auditor of Public Accounts Edward J. Barrett, lost renomination in the Democratic primary. Republican Arthur C. Lueder was elected to succeed him.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Auditor of Public Accounts, Democratic primary
Incumbent Edward J. Barrett narrowly lost renomination to U.S. congressman and former Illinois state treasurer John C. Martin.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Treasurer
Incumbent first-term Treasurer Louie E. Lewis, a Democrat, did not seek reelection, instead running for lieutenant governor. Republican Warren Wright was elected to succeed him in office.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, State Senate
Seats of the Illinois Senate were up for election in 1940. Republicans flipped control of the chamber.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, State House of Representatives
Seats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1940. Republicans retained control of the chamber.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois
An election was held for three of the nine seats for Trustees of University of Illinois to six year terms, and a special election was held to fill the partial term of a seat that was vacated. Republicans swept all four seats in the two elections. The election was for six-year terms.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election
An election was held for three six-year terms to the board.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election
Former two-term Republican member Helen M. H. Grigsby was returned to the board. New Republican members John R. Fornof and Park Livingston were elected to the board.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election
First-term Democrats Oscar G. Mayer Sr. and Harold Pogue did not seek reelection.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election
Marie Coyle Plumb was listed on the ballot as "Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb", and Beulah Campbell was listed as "Belulah (Mrs. Bruce A.) Campbell".


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Special election
A special election was held to fill the term left vacant by the death in office of Democrat Louis Conrad Moschel in 1940. Republican Chester R. Davis was elected.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Judicial elections
On June 3, 1940, an election was held for judges of the Superior Court of Cook County.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Judicial elections
On November 5, 1940, an election was held to fill a vacancy on the Eighth Judicial Circuit.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures
A legislatively referred state statute was brought before the voters.


1940 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures, Illinois Banking Law Amendment
Voters approved the Illinois Banking Law Amendment, a legislatively referred state statute which made it easier to establish new banks in small municipalities that lack banks. It amended sections 11 and 12 of the general banking law.


1940 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1940 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season. The participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Bo McMillin, in his seventh year as head coach of the Hoosiers.


1940 Indiana gubernatorial election
The 1940 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Democratic nominee Henry F. Schricker narrowly defeated Republican nominee Glenn R. Hillis with 49.92% of the vote.


1940 Indianapolis 500
The 28th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30, 1940. The winner was Wilbur Shaw in the same Maserati 8CTF he had driven to victory in 1939. Shaw became the first driver in the history of the race to win in consecutive years. It also marked Shaw's third win in four years, making him the second three-time winner of the race. Shaw's average speed was 114.277 mph, slowed by rain which caused the last 50 laps to be run under caution. Shaw took home $31,875 (equivalent to $581,700 in 2019) in prize winnings, plus additional prizes that included a car and a refrigerator.


1940 Indianapolis 500
Fourth place finisher Ted Horn was flagged due to the rain shower after completing only 199 laps - one lap short of the full distance. This marked the only blemish on his noteworthy record of nine consecutive races completing every lap. He would eventually complete 1,799 out of a possible 1,800 laps from 1936 to 1948.


1940 Indianapolis 500
The top 4 starting positions finished in the top four places, albeit in shuffled order.


1940 Indianapolis 500, Results
Note: The race was run under caution from lap 150 to 200 due to rain.


1940 International Cross Country Championships
The unofficial 1940 International Cross Country Championships was held in Paris, France, at the Bois de Boulogne on March 24, 1940. The event was open for male junior athletes.


1940 International Cross Country Championships
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1940 International Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 27 athletes from 3 countries.


1940 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1940 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1940 Big Ten Conference football season.


1940 Iowa Senate election
The 1940 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1940 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 29 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.


1940 Iowa Senate election
A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1940 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly


1940 Iowa Senate election
The primary election on June 3, 1940 determined which candidates appeared on the November 5, 1940 general election ballot.


1940 Iowa Senate election
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa state Senate with 38 seats to Democrats' 12 seats.


1940 Iowa Senate election
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 14 Senate seats.


1940 Iowa Senate election
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1940 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 45 seats and Democrats having 5 seats (a net gain of 7 seats for Republicans).


1940 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 1940 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) in the Big Six Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach James J. Yeager, the Cyclones compiled a 4–5 record (2–3 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 132 to 118. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.


1940 Iowa State Cyclones football team
Tom Smith was the team captain. No Iowa State player was selected as a first-team all-conference player.


1940 Iowa State Teachers Panthers football team
The 1940 Iowa State Teachers Panthers football team represented Iowa State Teachers College in the North Central Conference during the 1940 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Clyde Starbeck, the team compiled an 8–1 record (5–0 against NCC opponents) and won the conference championship. After losing its season opener against Creighton, the team won its final eight games.


1940 Iowa gubernatorial election
The 1940 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Republican George A. Wilson defeated Democratic nominee John K. Valentine with 52.72% of the vote.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby
The 1940 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during September and October with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 5 October.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby
The winner Tanist won £225 and was owned by Arthur Probert of London and bred by Mr W.Twyford (real name Father Browne). Tanist a brindle dog whelped in March 1938 would become one of the fastest trackers in the sport and was one of the foundation sires of modern racing greyhounds.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
Shelbourne track record holder Tanist returned to Ireland after an unsuccessful spell at Wimbledon Stadium and within a week of his return he set a new national record for 525yds. He was entered for the Derby and was the firm favourite.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
Forty of Ireland's leading greyhounds entered the event and the early rounds proved a test for Tanist who found trouble but scraped through to round two where he won in 30.21. Another Dancing Willie won both of his opening rounds and defending champion Marchin' Thro' Georgia made it to the semi finals.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
In the first semi final there was a very strong line up with ended with Tanist coming home first in a time of 29.80; twice Trigo Cup champion Fearless Gaughan finished second and Prince Norroy who would go on to win the Easter Cup the following year denied Marchin' Thro' Georgia a second Derby final appearance by taking third place. In the second semi Another Dancing Willie continued his winning ways by recording 29.94 success.


1940 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report
The expected battle between Tanist and Another Dancing Willie did not materialise because Tanist eased to a six length victory in another very fast time of 29.89. Tanist passed the early leaders Another Dancing Willie and Prince Norroy on the back straight and drew clear.


1940 Jersey election
Elections were held in Jersey on 30 August 1940. The island was occupied by the Germans from 1 July 1940 until the surrender of the German forces on 9 May 1945. During this time, there was one election, held soon after the occupation began. The result installed puppet leader Edward Campbell as a front for the German administration, which was centered around the department of Manche, a French department in Normandy. Also standing was Thomas Jenkins.


1940 Jersey election
The election was unique in that only two candidates stood to represent the entire island. The post voted for was short-lived, and the Nazis removed it in 1942 to little reaction from the islanders. Campbell returned to his suffering business. He later went broke and died before the end of the war.


1940 Kalgoorlie by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie on 16 November 1940. This was triggered by the death of Labor MP Albert Green.


1940 Kansas City Monarchs season
The 1940 Kansas City Monarchs baseball team represented the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League (NAL) during the 1940 baseball season. The team compiled a 31–15–2 (.667) record and won the NAL pennant.


1940 Kansas City Monarchs season
The team featured three individuals who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: manager Andy Cooper, center fielder Turkey Stearnes, and left fielder Willard Brown.


1940 Kansas City Monarchs season
The team's leading pitchers were Jack Matchett (6–2, 2.58 ERA) and Frank Bradley (4–1, 2.38 ERA).


1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Six Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their second season under head coach Gwinn Henry, the Jayhawks compiled a 2–7 record (0–5 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 183 to 75. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.


1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ed Hall with 294 rushing yards, 251 passing yards, and 27 points scored (four touchdowns and three extra points), and Don Pollom with 158 receiving yards. Don Pierce was the team captain.


1940 Kansas State Wildcats football team
The 1940 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1940 college football season. The team's head football coach was Hobbs Adams, in his first year of his first tenure at the helm of the Wildcats. The Wildcats played their home games in Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats finished the season with a 2–7 record with a 1–4 record in conference play. They finished in fifth place in the Big Six Conference. The Wildcats scored 73 points and gave up 145 points.


1940 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1940 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Republican Payne Ratner defeated Democratic nominee William H. Burke with 49.63% of the vote.


1940 Kent State Golden Flashes football team
The 1940 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University during the 1940 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Donald Starn, the Golden Flashes compiled an 8–1 record  and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 186 to 43.


1940 Kentucky Derby
The 1940 Kentucky Derby was the 66th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 1940.


1940 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1940 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1940 college football season.


1940 Kettering by-election
The 1940 Kettering by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 6 March 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Kettering in Northamptonshire.


1940 Kettering by-election, Previous MP
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), John Eastwood, resigned his seat following his appointment as a Metropolitan Police magistrate. He had been Kettering's MP since the 1931 general election, when he defeated the sitting Labour MP Samuel Perry.


1940 Kettering by-election, Candidates
The Conservative candidate was John Profumo, a British Army officer and son of a prominent barrister of Italian origin.


1940 Kettering by-election, Candidates
During the Second World War unopposed by-elections were common, since the major parties had agreed not to contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by the other parties; contests occurred only when independent candidates or minor parties chose to stand. However, William Ross, a local steelworker and Labour Party councillor in Corby, wanted to contest the seat. He was disowned by his local Labour Party and by the party's National Executive Committee, and stood as a "Workers' and Pensioners' Anti - War" candidate.


1940 Kettering by-election, Result
On a turnout barely half of that at the 1935 general election, Profumo held the seat comfortably, with 73% of the votes. After a successful career in the army (where he rose to the rank of Brigadier and was awarded an OBE), he was defeated at the 1945 general election. He returned to Parliament in 1950, and rose to become Secretary of State for War in 1960, before his career was destroyed in 1963 by a political scandal which became known as the Profumo affair.


1940 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1940 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 46th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


1940 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 13 October 1940, Carrickshock won the championship after a 1-04 to 1-02 defeat of Mullinavat in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their first title in two championship seasons.


1940 LSU Tigers football team
The 1940 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the 1940 college football season.


1940 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 1940 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College in the Middle Three Conference during the 1940 college football season. In its fourth  season under head coach Edward Mylin, the team compiled a 9–0 record. George Moyer was the team captain. The team played its home games at Fisher Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.


1940 Lagos by-election
A by-election was held for the Lagos seat in the Legislative Council of Nigeria in 1940. It followed the death of incumbent Olayinka Alakija, who had been a member of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM). Jibril Martin of the NYM was elected with 64% of the vote.


1940 Lagos by-election, Campaign
Martin and Samuel Akisanya both sought the NYM nomination, with Martin chosen as the party's candidate. His opponent was Crispin Adeniyi-Jones, a doctor who had been a member of the Legislative Council from 1923 until losing his seat in the 1938 elections.


1940 Latvian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 14 and 15 July 1940, alongside simultaneous similarly undemocratic and anticonstitutional elections in Estonia and Lithuania, following the Soviet occupation of the three countries. The Communist Party of Latvia was legalised and renamed the "Working People's Bloc" (Darba ļaužu bloks).


1940 Latvian parliamentary election
It was the sole permitted participant in the election, as an attempt to include the Democratic Bloc (Demokrātiskais bloks; an alliance of all now-banned Latvian parties except the Social Democratic Workers' Party) on the ballot was suppressed, and the main figures of the bloc either arrested and deported (Atis Ķeniņš, Pēteris Berģis and Jānis Bankavs) or shot (Hugo Celmiņš) shortly after, while a few (Voldemārs Zāmuēls, Jānis Breikšs) managed to escape the repression by fleeing from the country.


1940 Latvian parliamentary election
Along with its sister parliaments in Estonia (Riigivolikogu) and Lithuania (Liaudies Seimas), the newly elected People's Parliament (Tautas Saeima) convened on 21 July. It declared Latvia a Soviet republic and requested admission to the Soviet Union on the same day. The request was approved by the Soviet government on 5 August. This move was illegal under the Latvian Constitution, which stipulated that a major change to the basic constitutional order could only be enacted after two-thirds of the electorate approved it via a plebiscite.


1940 Latvian parliamentary election
Soviet sources maintained that the election marked the culmination of a socialist revolution that the Latvian people carried out free of Soviet influence, and the "People's Parliament" was a democratic institution of the Latvian people that ultimately voted to join the Soviet Union. However, Baltic and Western sources maintained that the election was merely an attempt to give legal sanction to a Soviet occupation.


1940 Latvian parliamentary election
When Latvia declared independence in 1990, it contended that the 1940 election was illegal on several counts. According to the declaration, the election was conducted on the basis of an unconstitutional and illegal election law, and the election results were heavily falsified. It also noted that the Working People's Bloc was the only party allowed to contest the election out of 17 that submitted lists, and accused the bloc of deceiving the people about its intention to make Latvia part of the Soviet Union. On this basis, the declaration argued that all acts of the People's Saeima, including the request to join the Soviet Union, were void.


1940 Leeds North East by-election
The Leeds North East by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election in England held on 13 March 1940 to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds North East.


1940 Leeds North East by-election
The vacancy was caused by the resignation on 8 February 1940 of the sitting Member, Sir John Birchall, through the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He had held the seat since its creation for the 1918 general election.


1940 Leeds North East by-election
The by-election was held during World War II, and the five largest political parties – Conservative, Labour, Liberal, National Labour and National Liberal – were all members of the Coalition Government. As such, they maintained an electoral pact and agreed not to contest any by-elections in seats held by any other party in the Government.


1940 Leeds North East by-election
The Conservative candidate, John Craik-Henderson, was opposed only by Sydney Allen of the British Union of Fascists. Henderson won with 97.1% of the vote, but gained only 37.5% and lost his seat in the 1945 general election, when the seat was also contested by Labour and Liberal party candidates.


1940 Lehigh Engineers football team
The 1940 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1940 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Glen Harmeson, the team compiled a 2–7 record, and lost both games against its Middle Three Conference rivals.


1940 Lehigh Engineers football team
The team played its home games at Taylor Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1940 Liga Bet
The 1940 Liga Bet season was the second-tier league of the Palestine League organized by the EIFA. The league was split into three regional divisions: North, Samaria and South. The Samaria division was won by Degel Zion Tel Aviv, while Hapoel Hadera won the North division and a British military team, RSG, which competed in the league as a guest, won the South Division.


1940 Liga Bet
At the end of the season, Degel Zion, Hapoel Hadera and Hapoel Rishon LeZion (who finished as runners-up in the South division) competed for promotions to the top division. Hapoel Rishon leZion and Degel Zion won the two top places and were promoted.


1940 Liga Bet, Regular season results, North division
8 teams competed in the division, with Hapoel Hadera winning the league with a perfect record.


1940 Lima earthquake
The 1940 Lima earthquake occurred on May 24 at 11:35 a.m. PST with a magnitude of Mw 8.2 on the moment magnitude scale. Shaking from this powerful earthquake was felt throughout the country, and in Ecuador and Chile. An estimated 179 to 300 Peruvians lost their lives while 3,500 left injured by the earthquake. The earthquake was centered near the coastal cities of Huacho and Huaura, about 150 km north of the Peruvian capital, Lima. A tsunami of up to two meters was generated without major damage.


1940 Lima earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was a megathrust event, caused by a sudden slippage along a section of fault under the Peru–Chile Trench. Here, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate at a rate of 10 cm/yr, this process could be seen throughout the entire west coast of South America. The interface where both plates make contact occasionally produce moderate to great earthquakes. During the May 1940 earthquake, it is thought that a 162 by 71 km segment of the megathrust ruptured, with an average offset of 2.7 meters. A maximum uplift of 1.27 m, and subsidence of 0.36 m has been estimated. Its rupture area is wedged between that of the 1966 and 1974 earthquake.


1940 Lima earthquake, Damage
In Lima, the devastation was great, 32 people were killed in this city alone, while in Callao, the death toll was at 58. The Lima Cathedral was badly damaged, together with several thousand buildings. At Bellavista, there were 11 deaths, ten of them were children when the school they were in collapsed, and in San Miguel, two were dead. An estimated 3.6 million Peruvian sols worth of damage was caused by the earthquake.


1940 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1940 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 46th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


1940 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Croom won the championship after a 4-02 to 3-01 defeat of Ahane in the final. It was their fifth championship title overall and their first title since 1929. It was Ahane's first defeat in the championship since 1932.


1940 Lithuanian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 14–15 July 1940 to the so-called People's Seimas. They followed an ultimatum from the Soviet Union to allow Soviet troops to enter the country and operate freely. President Antanas Smetona left Lithuania on 15 June as the Red Army occupied the country and took control of the government. The elections were rigged and only communist candidates were allowed to run.


1940 Lithuanian parliamentary election
On 1 July the puppet People's Government led by Justas Paleckis announced elections to a new parliament, the People's Seimas, to be held on 14 July. The Communist Party of Lithuania emerged from underground with 1,500 members. Soon afterwards, the government announced the formation of the Union of the Working People of Lithuania, ostensibly a popular front. Voters were presented with a single list of candidates, including some non-communists. Just one candidate was presented for every seat in the new parliament and no other organizations were allowed to participate.


1940 Lithuanian parliamentary election
On 11 and 12 July, the Soviet authorities stifled the opposition by arresting leading figures of the previous government and deporting some of them to the interior of the Soviet Union – even though Lithuania was still formally an independent state. The elections were later extended into 15 July. Each voter had his or her passport stamped after voting. According to the official results, voter turnout reached 95% and the Union list received over 99% of the votes. Most of the original election records were destroyed. The remaining data shows that turnout was indeed high, but that many ballots were invalid (missing, destroyed, left blank, or marked with anti-Soviet slogans). The results were announced even before the polls closed.


1940 Lithuanian parliamentary election
The new parliament was convened on 21 July and voted unanimously to established the Lithuanian SSR and request to join the Soviet Union. The country became the Soviet Union's fourteenth member on 3 August.


1940 Lo Oka Gramam
1940 Lo Oka Gramam (transl. A village in 1940) is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language period drama film directed by Narasimha Nandi. It stars Baladitya and Sri Ramya, with Rallapalli, Mukkuraju, Rajitha, Sri Latha and Sai Lakshmi in supporting roles. It is based on the classic Ghosha written by Gurazada Appa Rao. The director mentions that naayuDu pilla by Gudipati Venkatachalam (Chalam) inspired him to develop the story. It is produced by N. C. Narasimham.