November 1940 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1940 Dutch Curfew forms
• 04 Nov 1940 Eggs and cake rationed in the Netherlands
• 05 Nov 1940 Dutch submarine departs Dundee
• 06 Nov 1940 Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected President
• 07 Nov 1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Washington State, USA.
• 08 Nov 1940 RAF bombs Munich
• 09 Nov 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WWII
• 10 Nov 1940 Pittsburgh and Philadelphia play a penalty-free NFL game.
• 11 Nov 1940 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier
• 12 Nov 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes).
• 13 Nov 1940 RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's third animated feature film, Fantasia, at New York's Broadway Theater. The film introduces stereophonic sound to motion pictures via a special sound system called Fantasound. This is Mickey Mouse' feature film debut, in the segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
• 14 Nov 1940 During WWII, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
• 15 Nov 1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls
• 16 Nov 1940 World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
• 17 Nov 1940 Green Bay Packers become first NFL team to travel by plane.
• 18 Nov 1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
• 19 Nov 1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
• 20 Nov 1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact
• 21 Nov 1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in the Netherlands
• 22 Nov 1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against Nazis
• 23 Nov 1940 1st edition of illegal The Truth publishes
• 24 Nov 1940 World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 25 Nov 1940 Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
• 26 Nov 1940 Leidse students strike
• 27 Nov 1940 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan
• 28 Nov 1940 Cleveringa arrested by Nazis
• 30 Nov 1940 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2

Famous Birthday

• Bruce Lee

  Chinese-American actor and martial arts expert who portrayed heroism and grace in movies featuring his martial arts.

• Marlène Jobert

  Algerian-born French stage and film actress, born to a jewish mother and to a French military father.

• Andrzej Zulawski
• Terry Gilliam

  American writer, producer, animator, director and set-designer, the only American member of Britain's comedy troupe, "Monty Python.

• Sam Waterston

  American actor of stage, television and film, onscreen since 1967, who made his reputation in the early ‘70s with sensitive performances in...

• Roberto Cavalli

  Italian fashion designer.

• Alexandre Baloud

  French journalist and radio presenter.

• Saul Kripke

  American author, philosopher and educator, a professor at Rockefeller University and Princeton.

• José Garcimore
• Elke Sommer

  German actress and singer.

• bin Said al Said Qaboos
• Michel Vaxès
• Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière

  French business leader, the CEO of FIMALAC (a.

• Barbara Boxer

  American politician, a leading advocate for equality and fairness for U.S.

• Julienne Mullette

  Australian-American astrologer, the founder of ISAR, the International Society of Astrological Research and their first President 1968-1977.

• Dalil Boubakeur
• Chuck Mangione

  American musician, producer and jazz composer, versed in the trumpet, flugelhorn, and keyboards.

• David Hayward

  American jazz musician and a trumpeter who still plays pro gigs in the '90s.

• Francis Lemonnier
• Delbert McClinton

  American Country-Western singer whose songs have been featured on albums by country singers such as Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Vince...

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Famous Deaths

• Alejandro Garcia Caturla

  Composer, dies at 34.

• Arthur Neville Chamberlain

  British Premier (1937-40), dies at 71.

• Waclaw Berent

  Polish Novelist, dies at 67.

• Nicolae Iorga

  Author / President of Romania, murdered by fascist.

• Catherina van Rennes

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Stephen Peter Alencastre

  Portuguese Catholic prelate (Born 1876).

• Neville Chamberlain

  English politician who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937-1940.

• Nicolae Iorga

  Romanian historian and politician 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940).

• Raymond Pearl

  American biologist and botanist (d. 1940).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Andrews Sisters - Beat Me, Daddy, Eight To The Bar
2. Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - Down Argentina Way
3. Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Scrub Me, Mama, With a Boogie Beat
4. Ella Fitzgerald - Five O'Clock Whistle