December 1940 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1940 Manuel Ávila Camacho takes office as President of Mexico.
• 06 Dec 1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter / poster artist Helen Ernst
• 09 Dec 1940 British assault on Banghazi Libya.
• 10 Dec 1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani).
• 11 Dec 1940 Russian General Zhukov warns of German assault.
• 12 Dec 1940 British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani.
• 16 Dec 1940 Joe Louis knocks out Al McCoy in six rounds for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago, Illinois.
• 17 Dec 1940 British troops occupies Sollum
• 20 Dec 1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Kansas City Athletics for US$42,000.
• 21 Dec 1940 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies of a heart attack in Hollywood, California at age 44.
• 22 Dec 1940 World War II: Himare is captured by the Greek army.
• 23 Dec 1940 World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (?-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
• 24 Dec 1940 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him quotMy friendquot, requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
• 25 Dec 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts Pal Joey, premieres in New York City
• 28 Dec 1940 Arthur Morris scores 111 in second innings of first game after 148.
• 29 Dec 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London, England.
• 30 Dec 1940 In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.
• 31 Dec 1940 37 U-boats sunk this month
• 14 Dec 1940 Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

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