" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat

* 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

* 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Burt Young, American actor

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist ( Last Exit ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

* 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician

* 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress

* 1857 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 1940 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian doctor and activist ( d. 2006 )

* 1940 – Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer

2 # 1 ( Jan., 1940 ), pp. 87 – 104 in JSTOR

* 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire

* 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director

* 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

* 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player

* 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

Hemingway also mentioned Bacardí and Hatuey in his novels To Have and Have Not ( 1937 ) and For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940 ).

For the Kigensetsu celebration of 1940, according to the calculation the 2, 600th anniversary of Emperor Jimmu, the government constructed on the legendary site of Emperor Jimmu's palace, near Miyazaki, the Hakkō Tower.

For SEC registered hedge fund advisers to charge an incentive or performance fee, the investors in the funds must be " qualified clients " as defined in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Rule 205 – 3.

For Pare Lorentz's U. S. Film Service, in the year 1940, he made a poetic documentary film on rural electrification called Power and the Land.

For many party members, he represented an " interim " choice, as Morínigo had been for the Liberals in 1940.

For Adolf Hitler, the circumstance was no dilemma, because the Drang nach Osten (" Drive towards the East ") policy secretly remained in force, culminating on 18 December 1940 with Directive No. 21, Operation Barbarossa, approved on 3 February 1941, and scheduled for mid-May 1941.

For the invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 ( Fall Gelb ) the three SS-VT and three of the SS-TV regiments were each organized into divisions ( the future 2nd " Das Reich " and 3rd " Totenkopf "), and another division was raised from the Ordnungspolizei ( later the 4th " Polizei ").

For velocity measurement, Professor Wolman of Dresden created an alternative of his Doppler tracking system in 1940 – 41, which used a ground signal transponded by the A-4 to measure the velocity of the missile.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway in 1940.

For a short period of time in early January 1940, the German Naval Staff managed to convince Raeder that the "' best ' solution was preservation of the status quo.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

For the 1940 model, Oldsmobile was the first auto manufacturer to offer a fully automatic transmission, called the Hydramatic, which featured four forward speeds.

For 1890 – 1940 details, see In 1946, knowing of the Bureau's funding of Hollerith and, later, Powers, John Mauchly approached the Bureau about early funding for UNIVAC development.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940.

For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a " skeleton ... possibly that of a woman ", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner.

For the 1940 Census, the Census Bureau began publishing census block data for all cities with 50, 000 or more people.

For his own safety, he left the European continent and lived from 1940 to 1944 in Washington, D. C.

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.

For fifteen years after the split the LSO did little film work, recording only six soundtracks between 1956 and 1971, compared with more than 70 films between 1940 and 1955.

Solomon Burke ( March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010 ) was an American singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, mortician, and an archbishop of the United House of Prayer For All People.

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

For its “ Alfax ” model ( circa 1940 ), Kimura Kōgaku had 4 × 4. 5 cm frames, spaced by markings on the wind knob.

For example, a 1940 British comedy about an unauthorized TV broadcaster, Band Waggon, uses the phrase " pirate station " several times.