✦ History

Explore May 1, 1940 – June 24, 1940

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04

People

Adolf Hitler age 51
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 39
Emperor - Japan
George VI age 44
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Reza Shah age 62
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 58
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 70
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 38
King - Belgium
Farouk of Egypt age 20
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Wang Jingwei age 57
President - Republic of China
Jorge Ubico age 61
President - Guatemala
Bahij al-Khatib age 45
President - Syria
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Zhang Wentian age 39
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Winston Churchill age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Neville Chamberlain age 71
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Vyacheslav Molotov age 50
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Philippe Pétain age 84
Prime Minister - France
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Jan Smuts age 69
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul Reynaud age 61
Prime Minister - France
Mitsumasa Yonai age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Dragiša Cvetković age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Aly Maher Pasha age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Charles Evans Hughes age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
John Nance Garner age 71
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 35
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 38
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Hermann Göring age 47
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rudolf Hess age 46
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 68
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 63
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 52
Reichsminister - Germany
Robert H. Jackson age 48
Attorney General - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 67
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harry Hines Woodring age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Kingsley Wood age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Heinrich Himmler age 39
Chief of German Police - Germany
J. Edgar Hoover age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clement Attlee age 57
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 63
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 78
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hastings Lees-Smith age 62
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon age 69
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Francis Biddle age 54
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Harry S. Truman age 56
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 62
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 58
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 82
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 77
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Eden age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 22
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 44
House of Representatives - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 81
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert H. Lehman age 62
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 63
Governor of California - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
James Hubert Price age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
A. Harry Moore age 63
Governor of New Jersey - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Christian Herter age 45
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 17
New York State Senate - United States
Charles de Gaulle age 49
Leader of Free France - Free France
Francisco Franco age 47
Caudillo - Spain
Pius XII age 64
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 64
King - Saudi Arabia
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Konstantin Päts age 66
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Douglas Hyde age 80
President - Ireland
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 67
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 44
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Anastasio Somoza García age 44
President - Nicaragua
Óscar Carmona age 70
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 55
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 35
King - Bhutan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 57
President - El Salvador
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 61
President - Chile
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 51
President - Peru
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 40
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 64
King - Cambodia
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Tiburcio Carías age 64
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 58
President - Liberia
Antanas Merkys age 53
President - Lithuania
José Félix Estigarribia age 52
President - Paraguay
Eleazar López Contreras age 57
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Enrique Peñaranda age 46
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 55
Emir - Kuwait
Justas Paleckis age 41
President - Lithuania
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 50
President - Switzerland
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 40
President - Costa Rica
Émile Eddé age 57
President - Lebanon
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 85
Emir - Qatar
León Cortés Castro age 57
President - Costa Rica
Stenio Vincent age 66
President - Haiti
Andrés F. Córdova age 48
President - Ecuador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 68
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 35
King - Lesotho
António de Oliveira Salazar age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Risto Ryti age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ioannis Metaxas age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 65
Prime Minister - Canada
Robert Menzies age 45
Prime Minister - Australia
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 45
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Pál Teleki age 60
Prime Minister - Hungary
Per Albin Hansson age 54
Prime Minister - Sweden
Thorvald Stauning age 66
Prime Minister - Denmark
Johan Nygaardsvold age 60
Prime Minister - Norway
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 48
Prime Minister - Iraq
Jüri Uluots age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Bogdan Filov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Hubert Pierlot age 56
Prime Minister - Belgium
Dirk Jan de Geer age 69
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gheorghe Tătărescu age 53
Prime Minister - Romania
Johannes Vares age 50
Prime Minister - Estonia
Hermann Jónasson age 43
Prime Minister - Iceland
Shefqet Vërlaci age 62
Prime Minister - Albania
Pierre Dupong age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Peter Fraser age 55
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Augusts Kirhenšteins age 67
Prime Minister - Latvia
Tawfik Abu al-Huda age 48
Prime Minister - Jordan
Prince Mohammad Hashim Khan age 55
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
Josef Hoop age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Viliami Tungī Mailefihi age 52
Prime Minister - Tonga
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Jules Marcel de Coppet age 58
Governor-General - Madagascar