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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 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.

But much more happened on March 1940: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1940?


Events

  • 01 Mar 1940 12th Academy Awards: Gone With the Wind, Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh win.
  • 02 Mar 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island, Finland.
  • 03 Mar 1940 Artie Shaw records Frenesi on RCA Victor label
  • 05 Mar 1940 Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
  • 06 Mar 1940 First US telecast from an airplane, New York City, New York.
  • 07 Mar 1940 Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, to become wrestling champion.
  • 10 Mar 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
  • 11 Mar 1940 Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for The Sea of Cortez on a collecting expedition.
  • 12 Mar 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, gives Karelische Isthmus
  • 13 Mar 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
  • 14 Mar 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas, USA.
  • 16 Mar 1940 First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
  • 18 Mar 1940 World War II: Axis Powers : Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
  • 19 Mar 1940 French government of Edouard Daladier falls.
  • 21 Mar 1940 Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France Paul Reynaud succeeds him.
  • 23 Mar 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland.
  • 26 Mar 1940 Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City
  • 29 Mar 1940 Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paycheck in two rounds to retain heavyweight boxing title.
  • 31 Mar 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (lasts until 1956).

Famous Birthday

  • Chuck Norris

    American actor who built a substantial career on his skill in martial arts.

  • James Caan

    American actor; on-screen from 1963 after prior apprenticeship on stage and TV.

  • American actor; on-screen from 1963 after prior apprenticeship on stage and TV.

  • American politician, the highest-ranking woman in congressional history.

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Famous Deaths

Movies

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Rebecca

Rebecca

Release year: 1940

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson

Country: United States of America

Drums of Fu Manchu

Drums of Fu Manchu

Release year: 1940

Directed by: John English, William Witney

Starring: Henry Brandon, William Royle, Robert Kellard, Gloria Franklin

Pioneers of the West

Pioneers of the West

Release year: 1940

Directed by: Lester Orlebeck

Starring: Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore

Release year: 1940

Directed by: Victor Schertzinger

Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn

Primrose Path

Primrose Path

Release year: 1940

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers

Country: United States of America