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Movie history events from 1940
The film 'The Dark Jungle' is released in cinemas, covering the Confederate expansion of America in the early 20th century. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Four children travel through a wardrobe and discover Narnia. (England) (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert are hypnotised into a jewel heist. (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Tom Hagen marries Theresa; Frank Corleone and Frank Hagen born. (The Godfather)
The Blitz. (England) (The Longest Day)
Amanda Krueger, as Sister Mary Helena, begins to work at Our Lady of Sorrows instutition for the mentally disturbed. (Westin Hills) (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)
Allie and Noah go to the cinema, to see Li’l Abner. Aw. (The Notebook)
The Sea Tiger ship commissioned. (Operation Petticoat)
After a series of cosmetic surgeries to alter his appearance, FBI agent Freeman Hellergoes deep undercover with the mafia. (Washington, DC) (Smokin' Aces)
Friday 23rd February: Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is Your Land." (Bound for Glory)
Friday 23rd February: Scott Hayward, future inventor and speedboat champion, is born into an oil dynasty. (Texas, USA) (Clambake)
Wednesday 20th March: Ace Lannigan foils an attempt to have him deported back to the US. (SIngapore) (Road to Singapore)
Thursday 23rd May: Frank Sinatra records "I'll Never Smile Again". (Sinatra)
Saturday 1st June: Robbie Turner dies of septicemia when nearly evacuating Dunkirk. (Atonement)
Thursday 6th June: 150 rolls of toilet paper requested by USS Sea Tiger. (Operation Petticoat)
Friday 14th June: Nazis invade Paris; Rick Blaine is stood up at the train station by Ilsa Lund. (Paris) (Casablanca)
Friday 14th June: Sam Diamond trusts a dame; she says she's going out for a bottle of wine, and 2 hours later the Germans march in. (Paris) (Murder By Death)
Friday 21st June: Richard M. Nixon marries Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan. (Riverside, California) (Nixon)
Wednesday 10th July: The Battle of Britain begins. (Battle of Britain)
Tuesday 20th August: Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded. (Mexico City) (The Assassination of Trotsky)
Wednesday 11th September: Thomas Brian Reynolds is born. (Enemy of the State)
Tuesday 15th October: Cecilia Tallis dies in a flooded Balham tube station. (South London) (Atonement)
Tuesday 15th October: The Great Dictator opens in theaters. (Chaplin)
Sunday 27th October: John J. Gotti Jr is born. (Brooklyn, New York) (Gotti)
Thursday 31st October: The RAF battle with the German Luftwaffe comes to an end. (Lodon, England) (The Battle of Britain)
Wednesday 27th November: Bruce Lee is born. (San Francisco, California) (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story)
December: "Everytown" devastated by aerial bombardment. (Things To Come)
Wednesday 25th December: Ralphie Parker gets a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas and doesn't shoot his eye out. (Hammond, Indiana) (A Christmas Story)