1940

Millennium :	2nt millennium
Centuries :	19t century ? 20t century ? 21st century
Decades :	1910s 1920s 1930s ? 1940s ? 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years :	1937 1938 1939 ? 1940 ? 1941 1942 1943

Year 1940 ( MCMXL in Roman numerals ) wis a leap year stairtin on Monanday o the Gregorian calendar .

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20 Mey ? The Nazi concentration camp an extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau , the lairgest o the German concentration camps, appens in occupied Poland , near the toun o O?wi?cim . Frae nou till Januar 1945 , aroond 1.1 million fowk will be killt here.
10 Julie ? WWII: The Battle o Breetain begins.
16 October ? Nazi Govrenor-General Hans Frank establishes the Warsaw Ghetto .