WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1940
Find out what all happened January to February 1940

World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. (8. January 1940)

Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed. (29. January 1940)

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. (29. February 1940)

The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. (7. February 1940)

The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. (10. February 1940)

In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. (29. February 1940)

World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. (16. February 1940)

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. (27. February 1940)

Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations (29. February 1940)

Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. (7. January 1940)

FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time. (5. January 1940)

Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). (28. February 1940)