Editing 1940

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== Events ==
* January 4 - [[Hermann Göring]] assumes control of most war industries in Germany.
* March 13 - End of the Winter War.
* March 13 - Former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O'Dwyer is assassinated in Caxton Hall, Westminster, England by the Indian revolutionary [[Udham Singh]].
* March 30 - [[Wang Jingwei]] declares the [[Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China]] to be the legitimate Chinese state, and pledges its allegiance to the [[Imperial Japan|Empire of Japan]].
* April to May - The [[Katyn Massacre]] is perpetrated by the [[NKVD]].
* April 9 - The [[Nazi Party]] launches Operation Weserübung, invading Denmark and Norway. [[Vidkun Quisling]] proclaims a new collaborationist regime in Norway. 
* May 20 - [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] [[concentration camp]] is opened in occupied Poland, near the town of Oświęcim.
* May 23 - The [[British Union of Fascists]] is dissolved.
* June 14 - [[Francisco Franco]] orders an occupation of the Tangier International Zone.
* July 10 - The French Constitutional Law of 1940 is passed, establishing [[Vichy France]] as a client state of Nazi Germany. [[Philippe Pétain]] is named Chief of State and is given dictatorial powers.
* July 22 - [[Fumimaro Konoe]] is named Prime Minister of Japan for the second time.
* August - [[Lehi]] is founded by [[Avraham Stern]] after breaking away from the [[Irgun]].
* August 21 - [[Leon Trotsky]] is assassinated in Mexico City by NKVD agent [[Ramón Mercader]], acting on orders from [[Joseph Stalin]].
* September 7 - Beginning of [[the Blitz]].
* September 9 - African-American man Austin Callaway is [[lynching|lynched]] by a gang of six [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]]s in LaGrange, Georgia.
* September 14 - [[Ion Antonescu]] and the [[Iron Guard]] declare the formation of the [[National Legionary State]] to govern Romania, and allign themselves with the [[Axis Powers]].
* September 22 - Imperial Japan begins an invasion of French Indochina.
* September 30 - A gang of [[Hitler Youth]] members [[Arson|burn down]] the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France.
* October 10 - [[Fulgencio Batista]] is elected President of Cuba.
* October 12 - The [[Taisei Yokusankai]] is founded.
* October 23 - [[Adolf Hitler]] meets with Francisco Franco to discuss a possible alliance with Spain.
* October 28 - [[Benito Mussolini]] launches an invasion of Greece.
* Unknown - [[A.O. Neville]] steps down as Chief Protector of the Aborigines.

==Births==
=== Villain births ===
* January 1 - [[Clifford Olson]]
* January 12 - [[Bob Hewitt]]
* February 2 - [[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]]
* February 16 -  [[Kim Jong-il]]
* June 7 - [[Samuel Little]]
* June 16 - [[Neil Goldschmidt]]
* July 6 - [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
* July 15 - [[Ronald Gene Simmons Sr.]]
* August 26 - [[Michel Micombero]]
* September 10 - [[Robert Anthony Buell]]
* September 23 - [[Michel Temer]]
* September 27 - [[Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris|Lawrence Bittaker]]
* October 27 - [[John Gotti]]
* November 23 - [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.]]
* Unknown - [[Ali Hassan Salameh]]

=== Victim births ===
* July 16 - Daniel L. Simmons
* September 6 - Hugo Spadafora
* October 8 - John Lennon

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* February 4 - [[Nikolai Yezhov]] & [[Mikhail Frinovsky]]
* August 3 - [[Vladimir Jabotinsky]]
* August 21 - [[Leon Trotsky]]
* September 23 - [[Robert Hichens]]
* November 17 - [[Eric Gill]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* March 30 - Michael O'Dwyer
* July 6 - Jack Avery
* September 9 - Austin Callaway