In 1940, in World War II, the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk was completed.
In 1940, health care remained a boutique industry, accounting for roughly 4% of gross national product.
In 1940, Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" for RCA Victor.
Born in San Francisco in 1940, Lee's family returned to Hong Kong in 1941.
In 1940, the British Air Force dropped its first bombs on Berlin in an overnight raid.
Even in 1940, Americans who made it to age 65 generally had many years left.
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In 1940, eleven years after the Crash, unemployment was still at a stubbornly high 8.1%.
It was this same reputation that brought in No. 10 Downing Street in 1940.
In 1940, Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had asked for armistice terms from Germany.
In 1940, Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate, held a press conference in his mistress's apartment.
The 1940 Census gave the country in 1940 a snapshot, one moment frozen in time.
In 1940, German aircraft dropped thousands of incendiary bombs on London, destroying some cherished buildings.
In 1940, the French National Assembly gave plenary powers to the government of Marshal Petain.
The last time the GOP was so at sea over its own succession was in 1940.
In 1940, Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in its 400, 000 inhabitants.
This is not Berlin 1945, they say, but the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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But he created more than 3, 000 paintings between the late 1800s and his death in 1940.
In 1940, most of the Italians in Britain were either in Scotland, London or south Wales.
Chaplin wrote and starred The Great Dictator in 1940, playing two characters in his first talking movie.
Born in 1940, he joined the PLA in 1955 and began publicly exhibiting his artwork in 1958.
His mentor as a young man, a great avant-garde stage director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, was executed in 1940.
Mr Clarke volunteered for Bomber Command in 1940, and was accepted as a wireless operator and air gunner.
In 1940 President Roosevelt's science adviser, Vannevar Bush, appointed Loomis to head the top-secret "Rad Lab" at MIT.
His months in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1940, he often said, were the happiest in his life.
The most interesting period of Malraux's life coincided with an uncharacteristically reclusive time after France's defeat in 1940.
The Spitfire was a very special aeroplane, it saved our neck in 1940 in the Battle of Britain.
In 1940, Hermann Goering assured Adolf Hitler that invading England was unnecessary: the Luftwaffe would bomb Britain into submission.
In 1940, a male age 65 could expect to live for 12.7 years.
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Hazel Gregory was 18 in 1940 and working as a plotter at the Headquarters of Fighter Command in Uxbridge.
He was brought to the clinic in 1940 after being accused of homosexuality.
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