Godthaab became the seat of government for the Danish colony of South Greenland, while Godhavn ( modern Qeqertarsuaq ) was the capital of North Greenland until 1940 when the administration was unified in Godthaab.

His short poems, known as gruks or grooks ( Danish: Gruk ), first started to appear in the daily newspaper " Politiken " shortly after the Nazi occupation in April 1940 under the pseudonym " Kumbel Kumbell ".

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), he achieved great popularity for his recording of traditional Danish songs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1940, before the occupation, she was the leader of the Danske Kvinders Beredskab ( The Danish Women's war-effort society ).

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.

His initial success came in the Moray Firth where he attacked and sank the Danish 10, 517 ton tanker Danmark on 12 January 1940, using torpedoes.

Anna Karina ( born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer ; 22 September 1940 ) is a Danish, now French citizen, film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France.

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.

A group of Danish soldiers on the morning of the German invasion, 9 April 1940.

At 4: 15 on the morning of 9 April 1940, German forces crossed the border into neutral Denmark, in direct violation of a German – Danish treaty of non-aggression signed the previous year.

Danish public opinion generally backed the new government, particularly after the fall of France in June 1940.

On 23 April 1940, members of the Danish military intelligence established contacts with their British counterparts through the British diplomatic mission in Stockholm, and began dispatching intelligence reports to them by Autumn 1940.

* was a Flower class corvette launched in 1940 and sold to the Royal Danish Navy in 1945.

After the invasion of Denmark on April 9, 1940 and subsequent occupation, the German authorities allowed the Danish government to remain in power.

Intelligence officers from the Danish army known as the Princes began channeling reports to London as early as 13 April 1940.

On 23 April 1940, members of Danish military intelligence established contacts with their British counterparts through the British diplomatic mission in Stockholm, and the first intelligence dispatch was sent by messenger to the Stockholm mission in the autumn of 1940.

Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén ( 11 June 1867-25 May 1940 ), commonly known as Marie Krøyer, was a famous Danish painter.

His first marriage ( 1912 – 1936 ) was to the Danish painter Marie Triepcke ( 1867 – 1940 ), who had previously been married to the painter Peder Severin Krøyer ( 1851 – 1909 ).

;: Used Polish guns captured in 1939 as 3, 7 cm PaK 36 ( p ) and Danish guns captured in 1940 as 3, 7 cm PaK 157 ( d ).

Alex Riel, ( 13 September 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark ), is a Danish jazz and rock drummer.

* Gerda Wegener ( 1886 – 1940 ), Danish illustrator

Serving in the Danish Merchant Navy, he came to the United Kingdom shortly after the start of the Second World War where he joined the British Commandos in 1940, serving with No. 62 Commando ( also known as the Small Scale Raiding Force ) as a private.

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.

On May 5, 1940 Pope Pius XII named her a joint Patron Saint of Italy along with Saint Francis of Assisi.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Hans Rudolf " Ruedi " Giger (; born February 5, 1940 ) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.

Part of 5 March 1940 memo from Lavrentiy Beria to Stalin proposing execution of Polish officers

After taking around 300, 000 Polish prisoners in 1939 and early 1940, 25, 700 Polish POWs were executed on 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Lavrenty Beria, in what became known as the Katyn massacre.

In track and field, Robinson won the 1940 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the Long Jump, jumping 24 ' 10. 5 ".

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

As one example, Luftflotte 5 was created in 1940 to direct operations in Norway and Denmark, and other Luftflotten were created as necessary.

On 5 March 1940, after the Gestapo – NKVD Third Conference was held in Zakopane, Beria sent a note ( no.

On March 5, 1940, in what would later be known as the Katyn massacre, orders were signed to execute 25, 700 Polish POWs, labeled " nationalists and counterrevolutionaries ", kept at camps and prisons in occupied western Ukraine and Belarus.

On 5 December 1940, Hitler received military plans for the invasion, and approved them all, with the start scheduled for May 1941.

Le North-American P-51 Mustang – de 1940 à 1980 ( Avions et Pilotes 5 )( in French ).

The next day, on May 5, Dutch people celebrate the liberation of the nation from the German occupation of 1940 to 1945.

In 1940, the Census Bureau reported Toledo's population as 94. 8 % white and 5. 2 % black.

During Japan's initial conquest it captured of oil (~ 5. 5 × 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > tonnes ) left behind by retreating Allied forces, and by 1943 was able to get production in the Dutch East Indies up to, 76 percent of its 1940 output rate.

That g ( 3 ) = 9 was established from 1909 to 1912 by Wieferich and A. J. Kempner, g ( 4 ) = 19 in 1986 by R. Balasubramanian, F. Dress, and J .- M. Deshouillers, g ( 5 ) = 37 in 1964 by Chen Jingrun, and g ( 6 ) = 73 in 1940 by Pillai.

* November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States ' first and only third-term president.

* July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist ( d. 1940 )

* February 5, – Maxine Elliott, actress, ( d. 1940 )

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?