WHAT HAPPENED IN 1940.
Look what happened the 1940.

FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time. (5. January 1940)

Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. (7. January 1940)

World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. (8. January 1940)

Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed. (29. January 1940)

The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. (7. February 1940)

The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. (10. February 1940)

World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. (16. February 1940)

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. (27. February 1940)

Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). (28. February 1940)

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. (29. February 1940)

Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations (29. February 1940)

In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. (29. February 1940)

Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden. (3. March 1940)

Members of Soviet politburo, including general secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre. (5. March 1940)

Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. (12. March 1940)

The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends. (13. March 1940)

First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister. (16. March 1940)

World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. (18. March 1940)

The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. (23. March 1940)

Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei. (30. March 1940)