Historical Events for November 1940
| ◄ Oct November Dec ► | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
◄ 1939 1940 1941 ► | ||||||
Months in 1940: January February March April May June July August September October December
Results 1 - 48 of 48
1st - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1st - Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
4th - Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
5th - Dutch submarine departs Dundee
5th - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
5th - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
6th - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
7th - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
7th - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
8th - RAF bombs Munich
10th - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
10th - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
11th - 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier
11th - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
11th - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
11th - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
12th - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
13th - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
14th - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
15th - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
15th - 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
15th - NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
16th - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
17th - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
18th - George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb
18th - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
19th - Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
19th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
20th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
20th - Hungary joins 3 Power pact
20th - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
21st - Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
22nd - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
23rd - 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
23rd - Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
23rd - SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
25th - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
25th - U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
25th - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
25th - First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
26th - Leidse students strike
26th - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
27th - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
27th - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
28th - Cleveringa arrested by nazis
30th - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
30th - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
30th - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
