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| 1940 |
| | | American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York | |
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| 1940 |
| | | English potter Bernard Leach publishes an influential manual, A Potter's Book | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen design an 'organic chair' for mass production in moulded plywood and aluminium | |
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| 1940 |
| | | The Conservative Colorados recover power in Paraguay and reimpose military rule | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Richard Addinsell writes the Warsaw Concerto as music for the film Dangerous Moonlight | |
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| 1940 |
| | | British biologists Ernst Chain and Howard Florey develop penicillin as a safe and useful antibacterial drug | |
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| 1940 |
| | | German novelist Thomas Mann takes US citizenship and in 1941 moves to California | |
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| 1940 |
| | | US author Richard Wright publishes Native Son, his semi-autobiographical novel about racial equality | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star together in Road to Singapore, the first of a long series of 'Road' films | |
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