The Westerner
Release year: 1940
Directed by: William Wyler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone
Country: United States of America
September 1940 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in September 1940.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on September 1940: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of September 1940?
Events
- 01 Sep 1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as Chief of Staff of US army
- 02 Sep 1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey Country Club - Hershey, Pennsylvania
- 03 Sep 1940 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma
- 04 Sep 1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
- 05 Sep 1940 WWII: Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser ''Komet'' enters the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the North Sea with the help of Soviet icebreakers ''Lenin'', ''Stalin'', and ''Kaganovich''.
- 06 Sep 1940 Crown Prince Michael succeeds Carol II as King of Romania
- 07 Sep 1940 54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs
- 09 Sep 1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
- 10 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
- 11 Sep 1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
- 12 Sep 1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
- 13 Sep 1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
- 14 Sep 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
- 15 Sep 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day
- 16 Sep 1940 Dutch SS forms
- 17 Sep 1940 Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
- 18 Sep 1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
- 19 Sep 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
- 24 Sep 1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career home run.
- 25 Sep 1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
- 26 Sep 1940 Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
- 27 Sep 1940 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
- 28 Sep 1940 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands and attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
- 29 Sep 1940 Double or Nothing, a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
- 30 Sep 1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
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Movies
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King of the Royal Mounted
Release year: 1940
Directed by: John English, William Witney
Starring: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway
Under Texas Skies
Release year: 1940
Directed by: George Sherman
Starring: Robert Livingston, Bob Steele, Rufe Davis, Lois Ranson
Strike Up the Band
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser
That Gang of Mine
Release year: 1940
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Starring: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Clarence Muse, Dave O'Brien