* 1940 – Dennis Tito, American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates

* 1940 – Gudrun Ensslin, German militant leader, founded Red Army Faction ( d. 1977 )

In 1940, Karl König founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland.

In Germany the small Christadelphian community founded by Albert Maier went underground from 1940 – 1945, and a leading brother, Albert Merz, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and later executed.

* 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor and businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research

On 7 May 1940, Ribbentrop founded a new section of the Foreign Office, the Abteilung Deutschland ( Department of Internal German Affairs ), under Martin Luther, to which was assigned the responsibility for all anti-Semitic affairs.

The ancient Valaam Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam, the largest in Lake Ladoga, abandoned between 1611 – 1715, magnificently restored in the 18th century, and evacuated to Finland during the Winter War in 1940.

Luis Muñoz Marín founded the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in 1940.

He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1940 to 1992.

* February 1 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant ( the company's 9th since it was founded in 1940 ), but Kroc later takes over the company and oversees its worldwide expansion.

These techniques were an important asset of the Long Range Desert Group which Bagnold founded in 1940.

They were founded in 1940 to provide a venue for traditional Eastern Band Cherokee artists.

* Walter Chrysler ( 1875 – 1940 ), businessman, commissioned the Chrysler Building and founded the Chrysler Corporation

The department was founded by Beaumont Newhall in 1940.

IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology ( founded in 1890 ) and Lewis Institute ( founded in 1895 ).

The club was founded in 1940, under the name Albacete Fútbol Asociación, being later changed in an attempt to make it sound " more Spanish ".

* Perry Ellis ( 1940 – 1986 ), American fashion designer who founded a sportswear house in the mid-1970s.

While DuBois was founded as a lumber town, the mining of bituminous coal quickly became the chief industry in DuBois, supporting a population of 9, 375 in 1900 ; 12, 623 in 1910 ; 13, 681 in 1920 ; and 12, 080 in 1940.

Chef Specialties Company, founded in 1940, is America's first manufacturer and purveyor of pepper and spice mills.

The Free French Forces were individuals or military units who joined " Free France ", the resistance organization founded by Charles de Gaulle in 1940 in London in order to continue the struggle against the Axis powers.

The Special Boat Section was founded in July 1940 by a Commando officer, Roger Courtney.

Santangelo and Levy opened a printing plant in Waterbury the following year, and in 1940 founded the T. W. O.

The Art & Language group was founded in 1967 / 8 in the United Kingdom by artists Terry Atkinson ( b. 1939 ), David Bainbridge ( b. 1941 ), Michael Baldwin ( b. 1945 ) and Harold Hurrell ( b. 1940 ), four artists who began collaborating around 1966 while teaching art in Coventry.

Shiatsu was invented by Tokujiro Namikoshi ; he founded the first shiatsu college in 1940.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.

* The Wimsey Papers, published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine — a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war.

In a series of articles, re-published in The Contempt of Freedom ( 1940 ) and The Logic of Liberty ( 1951 ), Polanyi claimed that co-operation amongst scientists is analogous to the way in which agents co-ordinate themselves within a free market.

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.

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

The 1940 Denver Mint, 1936 Denver mint and the 1935 Denver Mint coins, as well as many others in the series, are considerably more valuable than other coins.

Orson Welles ' radio series Campbell Playhouse broadcast a one-hour adaptation on 7January 1940 featuring Helen Hayes and Agnes Moorehead.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

* WC series ( 1940 – 1945 )

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

Crawford worked in the radio series The Screen Guild Theater on January 8, 1939 ; Good News ; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on Arch Oboler's Lights Out ; The Word on Everyman's Theater ( 1941 ); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and Norman Corwin's Document A / 777 ( 1948 ).

Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.

In a series of reports Raeder submitted to Hitler starting in June 1940, he called for Germany to permanently occupy France and to annex Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and all of the British, French and Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa plus South Africa in order that Germany would become the dominant naval power in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Through essentially a rehash of the " Mediterranean plan " of 1940 with the main German blows to be focused against the British in the Middle East, the " Great Plan " of 1942 was worked out in considerably more detail, and called for a series of mutually supporting attacks between Germany in the Middle East and Japan in the Indian subcontinent that were intended to knock Britain out of the war.

A definitive series for the colony followed in 1937, featuring local scenes and key ( French ) figures in the formation of the colony, with various color and value changes each year through 1940.

The 1937 series was overprinted or just in 1940 by the Free French, and in 1941 they issued a series depicting a phoenix rising from the flames.

In 1940 and in the aftermath of Dunkirk, Churchill's interest was caught again by the idea of taking the fight back to Europe-the airborne was now a means ' to be able to storm a series of water obstacles ... everywhere from the Channel to the Mediterranean and in the East '.

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.

She would appear in the next two entries in the Broadway Melody series: Broadway Melody of 1938 and Broadway Melody of 1940.

In 1940, a thirty minute musical version of the play written by Joseph Gottlieb and Irvin Graham aired on CBS as part of their Columbia Workshop series, with Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland.

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War II.