Forty million years ago the Southern Ocean reached the base of the northern and western base of the mountain range, the deposition from the range forming the sea floor which is now Little Desert National Park.

The cipher stone, which one researcher is said to have translated to read " Forty feet below two million pounds is buried ", was allegedly last seen in the early 20th century ( exact dates are a topic of controversy ).

Forty million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS.

His owner, Calumet Farm, had brought Citation back from his injury in 1950 with the intention of making him the first horse to earn $ 1 million, but he came against the English import Noor, who defeated Citation four times ( Citation carrying more weight in the first three encounters ), in the Santa Anita Handicap at 1¼ miles, the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at 1¾ miles in world record time, the Forty Niners Handicap at 1⅛ miles in track record time, and in the Golden Gate Handicap, this time with Noor conceding weight to Citation, in a world record of 1: 58⅕ which stood as an American record on a dirt track until the great Spectacular Bid broke it 30 years later.

Forty organophosphate pesticides are registered in the U. S., with at least 73 million pounds used in agricultural and residential settings.

Forty million doses of vaccines were prepared and distributed.

One example of a Feghoot is the " Forty million Frenchmen " gag (" For DeMille, young fur-henchmen ...") on page 559 of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

Forty per cent of the existing buildings had already been condemned, but moves were afoot to start a renovation and rebuilding worth $ 7. 5 million.

Forty five Mennonite relief sales throughout the United States and Canada raise five million USD annually for Mennonite Central Committee to fund relief and service projects throughout the world.

* Forty type EN94 six-axle articulated electric units, built between 1969 – 1972 in Wrocław and normally operated in pairs.

Forty radicals of both races were killed and 140 others injured.

Forty percent of these newcomers to the senior colleges were open-admissions students.

Forty days ' penance was demanded of nuns who " rode " each other or were discovered to have touched each other's breasts.

Forty barrels of fake blood were used to simulate the effect of blood in the seawater.

In Gregory's lifetime the Christians of Cappadocia were devout, with the cults of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Saint George being particularly significant and a considerable monastic presence.

Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly " Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " and " The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor ", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.

Forty were built.

Forty native worshipers who were attending mass and two boys who had been ringing the bells in the tower were buried under the rubble and lost their lives, and were subsequently interred in the Mission cemetery.

Forty anti-aircraft defence battalions were created, linked with radar and a centralised command-and-control system.

Rafferty's onscreen image as a lanky, laconic bushman struck a chord with film goers and appeared in iconic early Australian films as Forty Thousand Horsemen, The Rats of Tobruk, The Overlanders and Eureka Stockade ( Overlanders and Eureka were part of a series of Australian themed films produced by Britain's iconic Ealing Studios ).

Forty government wagons were sent to Arkansas Post to transport them to Little Rock.

Forty thousand Allied soldiers ( some who carried on fighting after the official evacuation ) were captured or forced to make their own way home through a variety of routes including via neutral Spain.

Forty staff members, along with one de Havilland DH. 60 Gypsy Moth, one de Havilland 80A Puss Moth, three Junkers F. 13s and a leased Junkers F13 and Junkers A50 were among the acquired.

Forty Fort was named for a Revolutionary War-era fort that the town's original settlers built ; there were forty of these settlers from Connecticut, so the town was later named Forty Fort.

Forty percent had inadequate pain management and less than 2 % were seeing a pain management specialist.

Forty cannon were positioned near the chateau of St Amant, and another 30 guns positioned between the chateau and Fleurus.

According to writer Richie Unterberger, " The singles-' Peter Gunn ,' ' Cannonball ,' ' Shazam ,' and ' Forty Miles of Bad Road ' were probably the best-also did their part to help keep the raunchy spirit of rock & roll alive, during a time in which it was in danger of being watered down.

Buffett played several popular songs including " Fins ", " Son of a Son of a Sailor ", " A Pirate Looks at Forty " and a modified version of " Margaritaville " where the lyrics were changed in the chorus to " now I know, it's all BP's fault.

Forty people were wounded when Bophuthatswana Defence Force troops opened fire on striking civil servants.

Forty minutes later the guns paused as attacks were made by close air support and then resumed as the infantry and armour moved forward.

Forty of these tanks were produced, along with six prototypes.

* IHES at Forty by Allyn Jackson

Forty years after Doppler's death the misnomer Johann Christian Doppler was introduced by the astronomer Julius Scheiner.

* The IHÉS at Forty, by Allyn Jackson

* Al-Nawawi Forty Hadiths and Commentary, by Arabic Virtual Translation Center ; ( 2010 ) ISBN 978-1-4563-6735-0 ( Philosophy of Religion from an Islamic Point of View )

* April 2 – Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by the HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.

( The slogan " Fifty-four Forty or Fight !” is often incorrectly regarded as being part of this president's election campaign rhetoric ; it became a popular slogan in the months after the election, used by those proposing the most extreme solution to the Oregon boundary dispute ).

* In the 1961 song " Top Forty, News, Weather And Sports " by Mark Dinning, the verse " I had Lumumba doing the rumba ..." was removed after his death a few weeks after the release of the record.

The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by him at the Saint Forty Martyrs Church in Turnovo.

Bennett's first stage play Forty Years On directed by Patrick Garland was produced in 1968.

Forty years later however he is considered by many a politician who carefully made well thought-out decisions and when needed showed enough strength with a more progressive ideology then he was credited for at the time.

In 2009, Inverness was awarded the national title of " City of the Year " by the Veterans honor organization the Forty & Eight.

The hospital is led by Olas Hubbs, a winner of Modern Healthcare Magazine's Up and Comer award in 2002, who was also featured in Columbus Business First's " Forty Under 40 " in 2005.

* Forty years at El Paso, 1858 – 1898 ; recollections of war, politics, adventure, events, narratives, sketches, etc., by W. W. Mills, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

While most of the contributors are relatively unknown, the album includes two versions of a remix of " Dead London " by Apollo Four Forty and other remixes by house-music pioneer Todd Terry.

The " Forty Acres " backlot was sold off by Gulf + Western in 1976 and redeveloped in the 1980s into an industrial tract.

Written by Ian Thomas ( brother of comedian Dave Thomas of Strange Brew fame ), and produced by Bobby Colomby, the single barely missed a spot in the Top Forty during early 1983.

In 1678, Charles II withheld his Assent from a bill " for preserving the Peace of the Kingdom by raising the Militia, and continuing them in Duty for Two and Forty Days ," suggesting that he, not Parliament, should control the militia.

As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".

Forty of Caillebotte's own works are now held by the Musée d ' Orsay.