January 1940 calendar

Events

• 03 Jan 1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City, New Jersey consolidates with WBIL andWOV as new WOV
• 04 Jan 1940 WWII: Axis powers: Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.
• 05 Jan 1940 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
• 06 Jan 1940 WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces.
• 08 Jan 1940 World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
• 09 Jan 1940 WWII British submarine is sunk.
• 10 Jan 1940 WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
• 14 Jan 1940 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers.
• 21 Jan 1940 Foreign correspondents in the Netherlands under censorship
• 22 Jan 1940 1st radio broadcast of Road to Happiness on CBS
• 23 Jan 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile.
• 26 Jan 1940 Brisbane, Australia swelters through its hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees Celsius (109.76 Fahrenheit).
• 27 Jan 1940 -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia, USA (state record).
• 29 Jan 1940 Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.
• 30 Jan 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race.
• 31 Jan 1940 40 U-boats sunk this month
• 07 Jan 1940 Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

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