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| | | Roger Schutz establishes an ecumenical religious order at Taiz&eachute; in France | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Radar masts along the coasts of Britain give early warning of German air attacks | |
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| 1940 |
| | | John Ford directs Henry Fonda in the film of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin ridicules Hitler in The Great Dictator, the first film in which he speaks coherent dialogue | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| c. 1940 |
| | | Schoolboys, out hunting, discover paintings in a cave at Lascaux after their dog falls into a hole | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Civilian heroism is rewarded in Britain with a new medal, the George Cross | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Working as an official war artist, Henry Moore creates an iconic series of drawings of Londoners sleeping at night in underground stations | |
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| 1940 |
| | | US author Carson McCullers publishes her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Lord Craigavon (previously James Craig) dies in office after nineteen years as northern Ireland's prime minister | |
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