Charlie Chan in Panama
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Norman Foster
Starring: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash
February 1940 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1940.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
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Historical Events
Which were the important events of February 1940?
Events
- 01 Feb 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland.
- 02 Feb 1940 Vsevolod Meyerhold is executed in the Soviet Union on charges of treason and espionage. He is cleared of all charges 15 years later in the first waves of de-Stalinization
- 05 Feb 1940 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record Tuxedo Junction
- 07 Feb 1940 British railroads are nationalized.
- 08 Feb 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
- 09 Feb 1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 10 Feb 1940 In The Mood by Glenn Miller hits #1
- 14 Feb 1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed.
- 16 Feb 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
- 17 Feb 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
- 20 Feb 1940 Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record Limehouse Blues
- 22 Feb 1940 German air force sinks two German destroyers, killing 578.
- 23 Feb 1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island.
- 24 Feb 1940 Frances Langford records When You Wish Upon a Star
- 25 Feb 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game
- 26 Feb 1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York.
- 28 Feb 1940 1st televised basketball game
- 29 Feb 1940 Gone with the Wind, wins 8 Oscars
Famous Birthday
![Peter Fonda]()
American actor on stage and in films, screenwriter and producer.
![Mario Andretti]()
Italian-American auto racer along with his twin brother Aldo.
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Famous Deaths
Head of Soviet NKVD (Born 1895).
English writer (Born 1867).
Dutch political cartoonist, dies at age 81.
science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (Born 1888).
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Movies
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Norman Taurog
Starring: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan
The House of the Seven Gables
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Joe May
Starring: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
My Little Chickadee
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Edward F. Cline
Starring: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran
Country: United States of America
Swiss Family Robinson
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
Starring: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn
Country: United States of America