1940

This airticle is aboot the year 1940.

Year 1940 (MCMXL in Roman numerals) wis a leap year stairtin on Monanday o the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nt millennium
Centuries:	19t century – 20t century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s  1920s  1930s  – 1940s –  1950s  1960s  1970s
Years:	1937 1938 1939 – 1940 – 1941 1942 1943

Events

• 20 Mey – The Nazi concentration camp an extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the lairgest o the German concentration camps, appens in occupied Poland, near the toun o Oświęcim. Frae nou till Januar 1945, aroond 1.1 million fowk will be killt here.
• 10 Julie – WWII: The Battle o Breetain begins.
• 16 October – Nazi Govrenor-General Hans Frank establishes the Warsaw Ghetto.

See awso

• Category:1940 births
• Category:1940 daiths

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