Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

fr: Abraham Lincoln ( film, 1940 )

Eichenlaubträger 1940 – 1945 Zeitgeschichte in Farbe I Abraham – Huppertz.

The head of Hashomer Hatzair in Łódź, Abraham Gancwajch, on the other hand, formed the Jewish Nazi collaboration network Group 13 in December 1940, active in the Warsaw Ghetto.

* In the 1940 election, he ran as a Communist in Winnipeg North, coming in third place with 17 % of the vote, which was larger than the number of votes separating the Conservative victor from the defeated Cooperative Commonwealth Federation incumbent, Abraham Albert Heaps.

This controversy contributed to the defeat of federal CCF MP Abraham Albert Heaps in the election of 1940.

In 1940, Ross campaigned for Leslie Morris in the federal riding of Winnipeg North, and thereby contributed to the defeat of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation incumbent Abraham Albert Heaps, the most prominent Jewish politician in the city.

Abraham H. Foxman ( born May 1, 1940 ) is a Soviet-born American activist.

Abraham Lubelski ( born 1940 ) is an American contemporary artist and founder of NYArts Magazine, also known as New York Arts Magazine.

There were rumours that Stubbs would run a third time for the House of Commons in 1940 against CCF incumbent Abraham Albert Heaps, but he declined in the interests of unity among " progressive " politicians.

Hérard Abraham ( born July 28, 1940 ) is a former Haïtian political figure.

At the Westminster Theatre in 1940 he portrayed the title character in John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln.

They went on to create Abraham Lincoln ( 1939 ) that received the coveted Caldecott Medal in 1940, and the 1953 Boy's Club award went to their version of Buffalo Bill ( 1952 ).

Abraham D. Lavender ( born 1940 ) is a professor of Sociology at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, where his special areas of interest include ethnic relations, Judaica, political sociology, urban sociology, the sociology of sexuality, and social deviance.

* R. C. Abraham, A Dictionary of the Tiv Language, Government of Nigeria 1940, republished by Gregg Press Ltd., Farnborough, Hants., England 1968.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, a son to Luba Lubinsky and Abraham Shumiatcher ( 1890 – 1974 ), he received a BA in 1940 and a LL. B in 1941 from the University of Alberta.

* 1940 – Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue

* 1859 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American businessman and politician ( d. 1940 )

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

* September 18 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, Hawaiian politician and rancher ( d. 1940 )

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

On March 23, 1940, NBC Radio introduced a Saturday morning dramatic show called Lincoln Highway sponsored by Shinola Polish, which featured stories of life along the route.

Virgil Orr, a former member of the Louisiana House from Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, graduated from Glenmora High School in 1940.

Although there was a great outcry when a Canadian was cast as an American president, he scored a great triumph on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and repeated his role in the 1940 film version ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ).

Abe Lincoln in Illinois was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on the April 22, 1940 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, again starring Raymond Massey as Lincoln.

The Horace Mann School for Girls remained at Teachers College, and then merged with the Lincoln School in 1940, and finally closed in 1946.

He first served as curate at St Giles, Lincoln from 1935 to 1938, then St Mary's, Putney from 1938 to 1940, and finally at Barrow-in-Furness from 1940 to 1942.

* 1940: Autocrat of Lincoln, Rhode Island began to make a mixture of corn syrup and coffee extract.

Lincoln “ Link ” Loy McCandless ( 1859 – 1940 ) was an American cattle rancher, industrialist and politician from Hawaii.

* Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1938 ) Pulitzer Prize for Drama-adapted into 1940 film.

* William Lincoln Brown ( 1862 – 1940 ), second Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office

* Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 )

* Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 )

The following French editions of Emil Ludwig's books were published in the period 1926 – 1940: Biographies: Goethe ( 3 volumes ), Napoléon, Bismarck, Trois Titans, Lincoln, Le Fils de l ' Homme, Le Nil ( 2 volumes ).

Raymond Massey portrayed Lincoln ; he repeated his role in the 1940 film version.

After the War, he decided to remain in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1940.

* War With Honour ( 1940 )

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

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

* 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.

* 1940 – World War II: the Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.

He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of World War II.

In 1940, as the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

( 2002 ) Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899 – 1940, Modern War Studies.

The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918 – 1940.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

* Hubal, about the last months ( September 1939-April 1940 ) of Poland's first World War II guerilla, Major Henryk Dobrzanski, " Hubal "

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

* 1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.

* 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.

The larger Latviešu konversācijas vārdnīca ( 21 volumes, A – Tjepolo, 1927 – 1940 ) was interrupted by World War II and never completed.