" 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

In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the League to adopt the Lahore Resolution of 1940, demanding the formation of independent states in the East and the West of British India.

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( otherwise written as Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood, ; born 1940 ) SI, is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and Islamic-scholar educated in Lahore, West-Pakistan ( now Pakistan ) and Manchester, United Kingdom.

In 1940, Jinnah made a statement at the Lahore conference that seemed to call for a separate Muslim country.

Alla Rakha began his career as an accompanist in Lahore and then as an All India Radio staffer in Bombay in 1940, playing the station's first ever tabla solo and elevating the instrument's position in the process.

The Pakistan Resolution was adopted in 1940 at the Lahore session of the Muslim League.

At a League conference in Lahore in 1940, Jinnah said: " Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature ....

The Lahore Resolution was adopted on March 23, 1940, and its principles formed the foundation for Pakistan's first constitution.

Every year, on 23 March, the Pakistani people commemorate their National Day in remembrance of “ The Pakistan Resolution ” passed on 23 March 1940, in the historic city of Lahore which is also the day the country was declared a republic.

The park accommodates Minar-e-Pakistan ( Lighthouse of Pakistan ), a 60 meters ( 198. 5 feet ) tall distinctive monument in the shape of a minaret that has been built in commemoration of the Lahore Resolution passed at the three-day general session ( 22 – 24 March 1940 ) of All India Muslim League, calling for greater Muslim autonomy in British India.

It was the same day in 1940 that the historic Pakistan Resolution was adopted at Minto Park, Lahore.

He presented the two-nation theory in the now famous Lahore Resolution in March 1940, seeking a separate Muslim state,

The Lahore Resolution (, Qarardad-e-Lahore ), commonly known as the Pakistan Resolution (, Qarardad-e-Pakistan ), was a formal political statement adopted by the Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session on March 22 – 24, 1940 that called for the creation of ' independent states ' for Muslims in British India.

The session was held between March 22 and March 24, 1940, at Minto Park ( now Iqbal Park ), Lahore.

23 March, 1940: Newspapers printed news about Lahore Resolution, demanding division of India

* March 23 ( Pakistan Day ) is a national holiday in Pakistan to commemorate both Lahore Resolution ( 1940 ) and the Republic Day ( 1956 ); the country became the first Islamic Republic in the world.

* Lahore Resolution ( 1940 ) at Story of Pakistan website.

On March 22, 1940, Jinnah made a speech in Lahore which was very similar to Al-Biruni's thesis in theme and tone.

In Muhammad Ali Jinnah's All India Muslim League presidential address delivered in Lahore, on March 22, 1940, he explained: