At the beginning of 1940, the first edition of Connolly's Horizon appeared, and this provided a new outlet for Orwell's work as well as new literary contacts.

At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.

At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesota, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager.

At the wedding of Patton's daughter Ruth Ellen ( 1940 ), a couple who knew Patton from Hawaii ( Restarick and Eleanor Jones Withington ) crashed the wedding, and explained they were in the area when they saw the wedding announcement and hoped Patton didn't mind them showing up uninvited.

At the age of 37, he was perceived as a rising star in the Republican Party and frontrunner for the presidential nomination in 1940.

At the same time in early 1940, Hitler had finally decided upon a plan for the invasion of France ; the prospect of seizing bases in France, which were regarded as offering better access to the North Atlantic than Norway, caused many Naval Staff officers to abandon their support for Weserübung.

At a meeting with Hitler on 26 March 1940, Raeder stated he still believed in Weserübung, and wished it to be started as soon as possible.

At a meeting with Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, ( 1869 – November 1940 ), and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier chose diplomacy over war.

At the start of 1940 he was still a first lieutenant but, beginning in 1941, began to receive temporary advancement in grade in the expanding Army Air Forces.

At the beginning of 1940, the Selbstschutz was disbanded and its members transferred to various units of the SS and German police.

At some point, the studio wanted Brian Aherne for the male lead, and Joel McCrea, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard were under consideration as of July 1940, but in August 1940 Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll were announced as co-stars.

At the end of the summer of 1940, Daniel Mayer was asked by Leon Blum to reconstitute the SFIO ( in ruins because of Paul Faure's defection to the Vichy regime ).

At the height of his influence, in 1940, Joyce had an estimated 6 million regular and 18 million occasional listeners in the United Kingdom.

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

At the same time, Glen Rose grew from 1, 050 residents in 1940 to 1, 248 in 1950.

At the outbreak of war, the orchestra was cut from 61 to 35, and then in 1940 to only 24 players.

The mill was the subject of a 1971 World in Action investigation entitled " The Dust At Acre Mill " which revealed how the factory broke the law regarding asbestos-dust control between 1940 – 1970.

# At the Last Port of Call ( dailies and Sundays, June 1938-February 1940 )

At the conclusion of the war, over 167, 000 students, including over 50, 000 pilots, trained in Canada under the program from May 1940 to March 1945.

At Oxford Healey joined the Communist Party in 1937 during the Great Terror but left in 1940 after the fall of France.

At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

At the founding congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) Vladimir Lenin was able to gain enough support for the establishment of an all-powerful central organ at the next congress.

At the 9th Party Congress the Democratic Centralists, an opposition faction within the party, accused Lenin and his associates, of creating a Central Committee in which a " small handful of party oligarchs ... was banning those who hold deviant views.

At the time of the Lisbon Treaty ratification, they were actively campaigning against it, unlike the governing Civic Democratic Party, who endorsed it in the Chamber of Deputies.

At the same time, an Islamist party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) and a Chinese socialist party, the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), gained increasing support, at the expense of UMNO and the MCA respectively.

At that time, a Bolshevik revolt took place in the Menshevik-controlled Democratic Republic of Georgia, and the Red Army subsequently invaded.

At the state level, Lansing is located in the 23rd district of the Michigan Senate, which has been represented by Democratic state senator Gretchen Whitmer since January 1, 2007.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Uzbekistan voted to cut its ties with the CPSU ; three months later, it changed its name to the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan ( PDPU ), but the party leadership, under President Islam Karimov, remained in place.

At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee ( See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee ) that acts as the hub for much fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.

At various times the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party for a few years had considerable local strength, and then faded away — although in Minnesota, the Farmer – Labor Party merged into the state's Democratic Party, which is now officially known as the Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party.

At the 1996 Democratic National Convention, Clinton and incumbent Vice President Al Gore were renominated with token opposition.

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

At unification, both the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen were struggling underdeveloped economies.

** At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the " forgotten middle class ".

* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

At the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party he was elected in absentia as a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.

At the 2001 parliamentary elections, the UP entered into an electoral alliance with the larger social-democratic party Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament.

At the end of the war, Honecker resumed activity in the party under leader Walter Ulbricht, and, in 1946, became one of the first members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED ), which was formed by the merger of the KPD and the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.