* R. Norman Bauer, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1940 to 1948

According to Polish sources ( published in 1969 ) The area remained the main centre of activity by Polish minority in the region and in 1923 Związek Polaków na obszar Kaszubski was founded in the city In 1928 Jan Bauer, a Polish teacher organised Polish language lessons, and reinvigorated the Polish movement in the city, which resulted in repressions by German state, and his eventual conviction and exile from Germany in 1932, founding himself at the outbreak of Second World War in Berlin he was arrested and murdered by Germans in 1940.

In 1940 Bauer patented the first quilted down jacket.

In addition to her position at NYU, Bauer was affiliated with Juilliard as a guest lecturer from 1940 until her death in 1955.

Bauer argues that on the basis of Heinrich Himmler's memorandum of May 25, 1940 to Adolf Hitler regarding the " Final Solution of the Jewish Question "— in which Himmler states his rejection of " the Bolshevik method of physical annihilation of a people out of inner conviction as un-German and impossible ," and goes on to recommend the Madagascar Plan as the desired " territorial solution " of the " Jewish Question "— proves that there was no master plan for genocide going back to the days when Hitler wrote Mein Kampf.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

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.

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 ".

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

Nehru was then succeeded by his socialist colleagues Bose ( 1938 – 39 ) and Azad ( 1940 – 46 ).

When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

Latvia's independent status was interrupted at the outset of World War II when in 1940 the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then retaken by the Soviets in 1944 after Germany surrendered.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

* 1940 – The Lahore Resolution ( Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore ) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

In 1920 the Vox-group had taken over the building and the following year commissioned its remodelling by Swiss architect Rudolf Otto Salvisberg ( 1882 – 1940 ), and then erected two transmitting antennae.

Heydrich became the President of Interpol ( then under Nazi control ) on 24 August 1940, and its headquarters were transferred to Berlin.

Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

The Redskins then met the Bears again in the 1940 NFL Championship Game on December 8, 1940.

In this area Lipscomb originally intended a more ambitious project: " My original intention in the late 1940 ’ s was to spend a few years understanding the boranes, and then to discover a systematic valence description of the vast numbers of electron deficient intermetallic compounds.

Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then for Helsinki ; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London.

He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 ( joining the American Federation of Teachers ), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).

The opera was then given a rest, returning to the touring repertory between 1894 and 1900 and again for most of the time between 1903 and 1940.

He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 in mathematics, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Dönitz told the former Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath that " It had been Raeder's fault that until the middle of 1940 only two U-boats slid down the ways " per month, and that if only he had been Navy Commander-in-Chief in 1940 then he would have won the war.

The cipher was broken by a team from the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, then directed by William Friedman in 1940.

Lambertsen's invention ( patented by himself several times from 1940 to 1989 ) was a rebreather and is different from the open circuit diving regulator and diving cylinder assemblies also commonly referred to as scuba.

Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers patented on 16 Dec 1940 and 2 May 1944.

Jack Andresen patented the first trick ski, a shorter, finless water ski, in 1940.

Albert Bouwers built a prototype meniscus telescope in August 1940 and patented it in February 1941.

In 1940, Carrillo patented fifteen metamorphoser pianos for producing whole tones, third-tones, quarter-tones, fifth -, sixth -, seventh -, eighth -, ninth -, tenth -, eleventh -, twelfth -, thirteenth-fourteenth -, fifteenth -, and sixteenth-tones.

Projection clocks were patented at least twice: once in 1909, and another time in 1940.

It was patented by John Joseph Earley in 1940.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

The first symptoms of his health problems began late in 1940, when his right shoulder began to show signs of stiffening.

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.

The first of his four volumes appeared in 1940 ( the year he retired ) and the last in 1953, two years before his death.

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.

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.

The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

DeMille first used three-strip Technicolor in Northwest Mounted Police ( 1940 ).

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

The alternative crossbreeding programs initiated in 1940 by Dr. Antonio Teixeira Viana had the objective of obtaining first, crossbreeds 5 / 8 Charolais and 3 / 8 Zebu and second, 3 / 8 Charolais x 5 / 8 Zebu, to evaluate which of the two was the most successful.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

DC's first logo appeared on the April 1940 issues of its titles.

He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led the side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd.

More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to top the ton since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940.

The film now most commonly cited as the first " true " film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster.

* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it was adopted by others.