• 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in November 1940: Turkey declared...
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    The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic...
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  • November 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1940. Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard. "Seekrieg 1940,...
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  • The 1940 Southampton by-election was held on 27 November 1940. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent National...
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    Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. The bridge's collapse has...
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  • 1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...
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    were appointed on 18 November 1940: Secretary General of the Head of State: Émile Laure Laval was sacked by Pétain on 13 December 1940. This came as a surprise...
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  • The years between 1940 and 1949 featured the 1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical...
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    survive attacks from Nazi Germany. During the Battle of Britain in November 1940, Kennedy publicly suggested, "Democracy is finished in England. It may...
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