Explore 1940-01-01

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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 - 1945-09-20
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13

People

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 64
Subhas Chandra Bose age 42
Lord Mountbatten age 39
Rabindranath Tagore age 78
Charles Hardinge age 81
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 58
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 73
Archibald Wavell age 56
Andrés Rodríguez age 16
Arleigh Winston Scott age 39
Aurelius Marie age 35
Giovanni Lajolo age 4
Bernard Montgomery age 52
Erwin Rommel age 48
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 46
Philippe Pétain age 83