Michael Reid was born in Hackney, East London in 1940, the son of Ellen Louvian ( née Ives ) and Sidney Reid, during World War II, and the Blitz bombings of Central London caused him and his family to move to Tottenham, North London, where he attended Rowland Hill School.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Denmark, Bohr began his physics degree at the University of Copenhagen.

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.

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

Until he began making spoken dialogue films with The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), he never shot from a completed script, but instead usually started with only a vague premise — for example " Charlie enters a health spa " or " Charlie works in a pawn shop.

On 29 March 1940 his long association with Tribune began with a review of a sergeant's account of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

In 1940, he began postdoctoral studies at Yale University.

In 1940, the German government began funding him through the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt ( AVA, Aerodynamic Research Institute, forerunner of the DLR ), which used his work for the production of glide bombs.

In 1940 he began living with Aileen Furse in London.

In Auschwitz, which began operating on 14 June 1940, 1. 1 million people died.

In January 1940, construction began on a secret plant, code named " Hochwerk " ( High factory ), for the production of tabun at Dyherrnfurth an der Oder ( now Brzeg Dolny in Poland ), on the Oder River from Breslau ( now Wrocław ) in Silesia.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

Recognising the need for an even larger craft capable of landing both tanks and infantry onto a hostile shore, the Navy began development of the 220-ton Marinefährprahm ( MFP ) but these too were unavailable in time for a landing on English soil in 1940, the first of them not being commissioned until April 1941.

It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 — three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland — and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty.

By 1940, Stalin began to relent, restoring approximately one-third of previously dismissed officers to duty.

The Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) began an experimental RGB field-sequential color system in 1940.

After 1930, when the Japanese began industrial development on the Korean Peninsula, particularly in the northern provinces adjacent to Manchuria, the urban portion of the population began to grow, reaching 11. 6 % for all of Korea in 1940.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

His experiments with television ( known as telectroescopía at first ) began in 1931 and led to a patent for the " trichromatic field sequential system " color television in 1940 ,.

*: Perhaps modern Thailand ’ s only war of aggression, began in October 1940.

Watson soon began second-guessing himself for accepting the medal, and eventually returned the medal to the German government in June 1940.

Italy began operations in the Mediterranean, initiating a siege of Malta in June, conquering British Somaliland in August, and making an incursion into British-held Egypt in September 1940.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

In the summer of 1940, fear of the Soviet Union, in conjunction with German support for the territorial demands of Romania's neighbors and the Romanian government's own miscalculations, resulted in more territorial losses for Romania.

The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 19 April 1940, entitled " Quislings everywhere " after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself.

After the fall of France in 1940, Hollywood drove fashion in the United States almost entirely, with the exception of a few trends coming from war torn London in 1944 and 1945, as America's own rationing hit full force, and the idea of function seemed to overtake fashion, if only for a few short months until the end of the war.

By 1940, collège classique programs were gone and Loyola became a four-year university, although it never obtained its own charter, granting its degrees through Laval or, after 1920, the Université de Montréal.

Forgetting his and the navy's own prior emphasis on the French ports as the best base for Atlantic operations, and fearful that that the war might end before he could demonstrate to Hitler's satisfaction the great value of a battleship navy, he ordered the two available battleships into operations off the Norwegian coasts in late May and June 1940.

This was the first of a series of ten stories ; the next year " Adam Link's Vengeance " ( 1940 ) featured Adam thinking " A robot must never kill a human, of his own free will.

Stead's best-known novel, with the ironic title The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940.

She achieved great success on her own in a variety of film roles and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ).

He recorded his own " It's Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby " with Benny Goodman in 1940 and nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a successful popular song composer.

Paramount had television interests of its own, having launched experimental stations in Los Angeles in 1939 and Chicago in 1940, and DuMont's association with Paramount ultimately proved to be a mistake.

Between 1928 and 1940, as part of comprehensive programs to educate ( and politically influence ) Uzbek people, who for the first time now had their own cartographically delineated ( administrative ) region, Uzbek writing was switched to Latin script ( Yanalif ; a proposal for the latinization of Yana imla was already developed in 1924 ).

Between July and October 1940, De Gaulle rejected the unconstitutional, repressive, and racist laws instituted by Pétain, and he established his own bona fides as the principal defender of republican values.

She took her own life in 1940.

Johnny Dodds ( April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940 ) was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe " King " Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong.

The community had its own independent school district and an estimated population of 200 in 1940.

For his own safety, he left the European continent and lived from 1940 to 1944 in Washington, D. C.

The Swedish government realised the strategic advantage of developing an aerial camera for their own use, and in the spring of 1940 approached Victor Hasselblad to help create one.

He succeeded, however, in obtaining an audience with the King, following the capitulation of the Belgian army on 28 May 1940, and the King's own imprisonment by the Germans at Laeken Castle.

In keeping with Ellington's formation of small groups featuring his primary soloists, Bigard continued to be featured under his own name on Variety and subsequently Vocalion and OKeh through 1940.

When the entire Ellington organization signed with Victor in 1940, Bigard recorded for Bluebird under his own name.

Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the newly-formed Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B Westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse, Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick, and had many opportunities to sing in each film.

In addition to his own movies, Rogers played a supporting role in the John Wayne classic Dark Command ( 1940 ).

With money from not only Rogers ' films but his own public appearances going to Republic Pictures, Rogers brought a clause into a 1940 contract with the studio where he would have the right to his likeness, voice and name for merchandising.