Historical Events in 1940
116 curated events dated to this year, and 132 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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Battle of Britain
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Dicoumarol Identified and Synthesised
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Enlistment in the Royal Canadian Air Force
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Final Years and Literary Legacy
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Political Activism during WWII
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Publication of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems of Violet Jacob'
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Publication of 'The Last Poems'
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RMS Lancastria Is Sunk off Saint-Nazaire
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City of Benares Is Torpedoed Carrying Evacuee Children
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Cotter's Later Years and Continued Writing
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Dunkirk Evacuation
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Education and Traditional Training of Credo Mutwa
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Enigma Machine Breaking
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Fall of France
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Final Move to Austerlitz, New York
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Final Years in Aylesbury
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Final Years in Davenport, Iowa
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Founding of the McDonald's Fast Food Chain
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Glenn Seaborg Discovers Transuranium Elements
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HMS Jervis Bay Defends Convoy HX 84
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Involvement in the Irish Literary Revival
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Involvement with the African National Congress
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Larkin's Education at St John's College, Oxford
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Long-Range Strategic Bombers
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Publication in Anthologies
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Publication of 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog'
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Publication of 'The Collected Poems'
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Publication of 'The New Africa'
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Publication of 'The Path to Home'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Voice'
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Publication of 'Voices of the Caribbean'
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Publication of 'Y Gair'
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Training as a Fighter Pilot
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Uranium Mining During Nuclear Age
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Walter Benjamin Writes 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'
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Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco Meeting at Hendaye
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Center Pivot Irrigation Invention
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Claude McKay's Final Years in Chicago
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Color Television System
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Condoms Promoted in WWII Military Hygiene Programs
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Cullen marries Ida Mae Roberson and settles in Tuckahoe
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Diesel and Electric Locomotives Begin to Replace Steam
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Divorce from Pauline Pfeiffer
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Election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Final Years and Continued Writing
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Final Years and Reflection on Literary Legacy
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Final Years in Hastings
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Final Years in Tokyo
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First Flight of the De Havilland Mosquito
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First Use of Shaped Charges in Warfare
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First Weather Radar Experiments
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Founding of the Lynchburg Chapter of the NAACP
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Friendship with Hugh MacDiarmid
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Friendship with T. S. Eliot
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Friendship with William Carlos Williams
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Hydrometallurgy and Solvent Extraction Advances
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Hydropower Accounts for 40% of U.S. Electricity
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Impact of World Wars on Rationed Baking
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Introduction of the Nylon Stocking Consumer Craze
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Involvement in Political Activism
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Involvement with the Poetry Society of America
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Japanese Use of Plague-Infected Fleas in Warfare
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Literary Recognition and Legacy
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McDonald's restaurant founded as a barbecue stand in San Bernardino
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Move to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Naval Gunnery Radar Integration
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Nichols flees the Côte d’Azur on a last refugee ship
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Publication of 'The Book of Life'
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Publication of 'The Negro in Chicago'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Companion'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Handbook'
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Publication of 'The Wind and the Sea'
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Recognition in St. Louis literary circles
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Regular Lecturing at Oxford University
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Relocation to California
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Relocation to Coconut Grove, Florida
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Relocation to London
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Relocation to New York City
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Repression of Freemasonry and Communism in Spain
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Return to Poetry in Later Years
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Return to the United States
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Superalloy Development for Jet Engines
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Titanium Extraction via Kroll Process
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Adoption of Prefabricated Housing Techniques
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Allied Boycott and Isolation of Franco's Spain
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Availability of Diaphragms and Spermicides Expands
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Battle of Taranto
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Buryat Mongol 'Geser' Epic Performance Recorded in Full
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Cheese Rationing in Britain During World War II
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Dionisio Ridruejo's Poetry and Prose
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Establishment of the 'Poetry Society of America' Membership
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Eunice Tietjens Participates in Literary Conferences
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Final Years in California
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Final Years in London
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Final Years in New York City
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Final Years in Oxfordshire
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German Invasion of Denmark and Norway
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Improvements in Submarine-Launched Torpedoes
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Involvement in the Arts Council
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Jean Toomer's Move to Washington, D.C.
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MP 40 Submachine Gun Mass Production
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Recognition by the Poetry Society
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Service's Involvement in World War II
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The 'Third Spain' and Catholic Poetry
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The Spanish Maquis and Guerrilla Poetry
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Tripartite Pact Signed
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Cullen publishes the children’s book The Lost Zoo
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Final Major Steam Locomotive Production Era
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Friendship with Paul Laurence Dunbar's Family
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Integration of Polarization in Fashion Lines
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Involvement in the Irish Cultural Society
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Mass Production of Condoms During WWII
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Minimum Mesh Size Regulations
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Relocation to Reading, Pennsylvania
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Soviet in Baltic States
Poets alive in 1940
132 poets
Poets in 1940
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