WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1940
Find out what all happened June to December 1940

World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder. (25. November 1940)

First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. (19. August 1940)

Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. (2. July 1940)

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece. (18. November 1940)

Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. (4. October 1940)

Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas. (8. November 1940)

In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion. (7. November 1940)

General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal. (25. July 1940)

New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. (16. November 1940)

World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties. (19. July 1940)

A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. (16. June 1940)

George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. (11. September 1940)

Treznea Massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts to ethnic cleansing. (9. September 1940)

Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. (16. November 1940)

World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb. (9. October 1940)

George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer. (9. September 1940)

World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. (26. June 1940)

World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. (16. November 1940)

World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. (3. June 1940)