WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1940
Find out what all happened September to October 1940

An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200. (12. September 1940)

Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. (19. September 1940)

Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. (16. October 1940)

The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed. (15. October 1940)

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

Balham underground station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. (14. October 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)

World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani. (16. September 1940)

The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees. (18. September 1940)

Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria. (7. September 1940)

Ip Massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of attempts to ethnic cleansing. (14. September 1940)

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

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. (1. October 1940)

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

World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy. (27. September 1940)

World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. (7. October 1940)

World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. (17. September 1940)

The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. (21. October 1940)

World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion. (31. October 1940)

World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft. (15. September 1940)