Attlee was Lord Privy Seal ( 1940 – 42 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 1942 – 45 ), Dominions Secretary ( 1942 – 43 ), and Lord President of the Council ( 1943 – 45 ).

In terms of fighter aircraft production, the British exceeded their production plans by 43 percent, while the Germans remained 40 percent behind target by the summer 1940.

In later years, he served as Secretary of the Dominican Legation in Madrid ( 1932 – 1935 ), Undersecretary of the Presidency ( 1936 ), Undersecretary of Foreign Relations ( 1937 ), Extraordinary Ambassador to Colombia and Ecuador ( 1940 – 43 and 1943 – 47 ), Ambassador to Mexico ( 1947 – 49 ), Secretary of Education ( 1949 – 55 ), and Secretary of State of Foreign Relations ( 1953 – 56 ).

in English literature from the University of Travancore ( 1940 – 43 ) ( present day University of Kerala ), standing first in the university ( thus becoming the first Dalit to obtain this degree with first class in Travancore ).

On July 3, 1940 the Doodlebug Disaster train wreck killed 43 people ; the worst disaster in the history of the city.

: Runners-up ( 2 ): 1940 – 41, 1942 – 43

" You Can Teach An Old Revolutionary Historiography New Tricks Regions, Popular Movements, Culture, and Gender in Mexico, 1820 – 1940 ," Latin American Research Review ( 2008 ) 43 # 2 260-271 in Project MUSE

The German occupation of Denmark after May 1940, however, resulted in Iceland's autonomy, and Sveinn was elected Regent of Iceland three times during 1941 – 43, assuming all the prerogatives in Icelandic affairs previously held by the Danish king.

During its peak, from 1940 to 1945, 43, 000 personnel were employed and 6, 850 vessels were built.

A self-proclaimed " very difficult man ," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns ( 1932 – 33 ; annulled ); Margaret Allen ( 1934 – 37 ; divorced ); actress Lana Turner ( 1940 ; divorced ); Betty Kern ( 1942 – 43 ; divorced ), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern ; actress Ava Gardner ( 1945 – 46 ; divorced ); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor ( 1946 – 48 ; annulled ); actress Doris Dowling ( 1952 – 56 ; divorced ); and actress Evelyn Keyes ( 1957 – 85 ; divorced ).

* The Second World War: Villers Bocage, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pinçon, Jurques, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Le Touques Crossing, Risle Crossing, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West Europe 1944 – 45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Withdrawal to Matruh, Bir Emba, Sidi Barrani, Buq Buq, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gubi I II, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Taieb el Essem, Relief of Tobruk, Saunnu, Msus, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1940 – 43, Capture of Naples, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943

Pennies were produced dated 1937 – 1940, and 1944 – 1952, although when necessary pennies were produced for the colonies in 1941 – 43 using the 1940 dies ; the 1950 and 1951 circulation pennies were only produced for the colonies as none were needed in Britain — when collecting pennies by year became fashionable in the early 1960s it was discovered that virtually the entire 1951 production of 120, 000 coins had been sent to Bermuda and considerable effort was made to buy as many specimens as possible and many wild claims were made about their investment value ( currently about £ 30 in uncirculated grade ).

Greenwood and Seshadri ( 2002 ) show that from 1800 to 1940 there was a demographic shift from a mostly rural US population with high fertility, with an average of seven children born per white woman, to a minority ( 43 %) rural population with low fertility, with an average of two births per white woman.

In 1940, children in 43 states were expelled for refusing to salute the flag and the Watch Tower Society took most cases to court, with Rutherford personally leading the unsuccessful case of Minersville School District v. Gobitis.

In 2003, in a speech for the 60th anniversary of the end of the 1940 – 43 collaborationist government, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Denmark's cooperation with Nazis was " morally unjustifiable ", which was the first public condemnation of the World War II era Danish leadership by a Danish leader.

Between September 17 and November 17, 1940, by a mutual agreement between USSR and Germany, 43, 641 " ethnic Germans " from the Chernivtsi region were moved to Germany, although the total ethnic German population was only 34, 500, and of these some 3, 500 did not go to Germany.

The club never lost a home game in Gauliga Westfalen in all these eleven seasons and only lost six away games, while remaining entirely unbeaten in the seasons 1935 – 36, 1936 – 37, 1937 – 38, 1938 – 39, 1940 – 41 and 1942 – 43 ; a clear sign of the club's dominance.

* New York Jewels ( 1933 / 34-42 / 43, as Brooklyn Jewels in 1933 / 34 ; as New York Jewels in 1934 / 35-36 / 37 ; renamed Brooklyn Jewels for 2nd half of 1936 / 37 ; as New Haven Jewels in 1937 / 38 ; moved to New York in November, 1937 and renamed New York Jewels ; absorbed Jersey Reds in January, 1940 ; dropped out in 1st half of 1941 / 42 )

Aberhart's government was re-elected in the 1940 election, carrying 43 % of the vote.

* McIndoe A. H .; Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine ; 1940 ; V. 43 ; p. 43 ; Citation count: 1.

A left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals during the " Gashouse Gang " era of the 1930s, he also played for the Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1940 – 43, ' 46 ), New York Giants ( 1943 – 45 ), and Boston Braves ( 1945 ).

He was captured in the Netherlands in 1940 and later escaped through a tunnel from Dulag luft, near Frankfurt, in June 1941, where he covered 27 miles ( 43 km ) over three days before a member of the Hitler Youth captured him.

Wrote jazz historian Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903 – 1940:

Agrarian conflicts in colonial New York, 1711-1775 ( 1940 )

Heschel arrived in New York City in March 1940.

In 1940 " New San Antonio Rose " sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

The New York Times ' obituary of Thayer on August 22, 1940, p. 19 quotes comedian DeWolf Hopper, who helped make the poem famous:

That is the time when I left Columbia University, and after a few months of commuting between Chicago and New York, eventually moved to Chicago to keep up the work there, and from then on, with a few notable exceptions, the work at Columbia was concentrated on the isotope separation phase of the atomic energy project, initiated by Booth, Dunning and Urey about 1940 ".

Enrico Bombieri ( born 26 November 1940 in Milan, Italy ) is a mathematician who has been working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

* In 1940, La Guardia received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award " in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York ".

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).

A new route was established in July 1940 by way of Canton Island and New Caledonia.

Between 1932 and 1940, Rivera also painted murals in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City.

Teacher using a blackboard to illustrate a music lesson, New Orleans, 1940

* 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand Prime Minister ( b. 1872 )

In June 1940, after the fall of France, the Conseil General of New Caledonia voted unanimously to support the Free French government, and in September the pro-Vichy governor was forced to leave for Indochina.

* 1940 – New York City's " Mad Bomber " George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

* The New World Order ( Wells ), a 1940 book by H. G. Wells promoting a post-WWII new world order uniting the world and bringing peace

* Greiner, H. ' Operation Seelowe and Intensified Air Warfare Against England up to the 30 October 1940 ', in Detweiler, D. World War II German Military Studies, Volume 7 of 24 ( New York, 1979 )

* 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director

Spies and Saboteurs: Anglo-American Collaboration and Rivalry in Human Intelligence Collection and Special Operations, 1940 – 45 ( New York: St. Martin's, 1999 )