1940
ID: 402
Curry and Robert Feys begin developing the Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs
ID: 402
1940
ID: 1489
Walter Funk presents 'European Economic Community' plan - detailed blueprint for German-dominated European integration
ID: 1489
1940
ID: 1490
Schacht removed from all German government positions
ID: 1490
1940
ID: 1491
IG Farben expands into occupied territories, begins Auschwitz factory planning
ID: 1491
1940
ID: 1492
Meyer Lansky allegedly obtains compromising photos of J. Edgar Hoover
ID: 1492
1940
ID: 1493
American Peace Mobilization (communist front) formed to keep America out of WWII while Hitler-Stalin were allies
ID: 1493
1940
ID: 1495
Committee on Accounting Procedure established to create generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
ID: 1495
1940
ID: 1496
Claude Shannon develops mathematical information theory
ID: 1496
1940
ID: 1497
André Weil develops systematic foundations of algebraic geometry
ID: 1497
1940
ID: 1498
German scientists develop synthetic rubber (Buna) on a large scale due to wartime shortages
ID: 1498
1940
ID: 1499
White works simultaneously for OSS during WWII while maintaining FBN position (1940s)
ID: 1499
1940
ID: 1500
Both Allied and Axis forces distributed millions of amphetamine pills to soldiers
ID: 1500
1940
ID: 1501
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter refuses Nazi service - 'I cannot serve both Christ and Hitler' - Beheaded 1943
ID: 1501
1940
ID: 4239
U.S. Census uses IBM equipment exclusively - processes 58 million punch cards for population data
ID: 4239
1940
ID: 5610
German researchers identify regenerative chatter in machining - develop mathematical models for vibration control
ID: 5610
1940
ID: 3771
April 9, 1940
Germany invades Denmark - occupation in single day, government initially remains but cooperates with Nazis
ID: 3771
1940
ID: 1494
September 1940
Walter Benjamin commits suicide in Catalonia, Spain after fleeing Nazis
ID: 1494