" 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

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* 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

The first was the Gran Premio del Norte of 1940, run from Buenos Aires to Lima and back ; it was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a much modified Chevrolet coupé.

He went on to appear in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ) with David Niven, Dodge City ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ) and Adventures of Don Juan ( 1948 ).

Diego María de la Concepción Juan epomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez ( December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957 ) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo ( 1929 – 1939 and 1940 – 1954 ).

In the elections of 1940, Cárdenas, with hopes of preventing another uprising in the country, surprised people and endorsed the PRM nominee Manuel Ávila Camacho, a moderate conservative whom he hoped would salvage some of his liberal policies and act as a compromise candidate between liberals and conservatives in the country against Ávila's opponent, Juan Andreu.

Juan Downey ( May 11, 1940 – June 9, 1993 ) was a video artist.

In 1940 and 1941, he commanded the 10th Naval District and Caribbean Sea Frontier, headquartered at San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Former presidents: Cornelio Nable ( 1901 – 1902 ), Juan Aguilocho ( 1902 – 1903 ), Vicente Dominguez ( 1903 – 1904 ), Florencio Morente ( 1905 – 1906 ), Juan Morente ( 1907 – 1912 ), Jesus Dominuez ( 1913 – 1915 ), Jose Benitez ( 1915 – 1916 ), Elias Semilla ( 1916 – 1919 ), Carlos Aguilocho, Francisco Laurea ( 1925 – 1928 ), Anacleto Villamin ( 1928 – 1929 ), Conrado M. Morente ( 1929 – 1930, 1931 – 1934 ), Felipe Venturanza ( 1934 – 1938 ), ( 1938 – 1940 ), Dr. Abelardo Bunag ( 1941 – 1942 ), Carlos Aguilocho ( 1942 – 1943 ), Manuel Medina ( 1943 – 1945 ), Thomas B. Villamin ( 1946 – 1947 ). Dominador Madrid ( 1948 – 1951 ), Dr. Pio Baldos ( 1952 – 1955 ).

Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano, better known as Johnny Ventura ( born 8 March 1940 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ) is a Dominican singer and band leader of merengue music and former mayor of Santo Domingo.

He also organized the School of Design with Juan Nakpil in 1940.

It is calculated that almost 300 rural teachers were murdered in this way between 1935 and 1939, while other authors calculate that at least 223 teachers were victims of the violence between 1931 and 1940, including the assassinations of Carlos Sayago, Carlos Pastraña and Librado Labastida in Teziutlán, Puebla, hometown of future president Manuel Ávila Camacho ; the execution of a teacher, Carlos Toledano, who was burned alive in Tlapacoyan, Veracruz ; and the lynching of at least 42 teachers in the state of Michoacan: J. Trinidad Ramírez in Contepec, Pedro García in Apatzingan, Juan Gonzalez Valdespino in Huajumbaro, José Rivera Romero in Ciudad Hidalgo, María Salud Morales in Tacambaro ; et al.

In 1940, Peraza and her followers founded their own church in Arecibo, and in 1947 she relocated to the current location of Hato Rey a section of San Juan.

* Juan Yustrich ( 1940 – 41 )

Future Formula One star Juan Manuel Fangio ( Chevrolet ) won the 1940 and 1941 editions of the TC.

In 1940, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonia Bonet designed the well known Butterfly chair, made of dismantling metal sections and clearly inspired by the Paragon.

In 1940, the first Commonwealth Literary Awards were given by President Manuel L. Quezon to Salvador P. Lopez for " Literature and Society " ( essay ), Manuel Arguilla for " How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Stories " ( short story ), R. Zulueta da Costa for " Like the Molave " ( poetry ), and Juan C. Laya for " His Native Soil " ( novel ).

The company usually refers to this as The Original McDonald's, although it is not the first McDonald's restaurant, but the ninth ; the first was opened by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California, in 1940, while the oldest McDonald's still in operation is the third one built, in Downey, California, which opened in 1953.