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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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| 1940 |
| | | Gene Kelly makes his name on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Avraham Stern forms the Stern Gang, a new Jewish terrorist group in Palestine and an offshoot of Irgun | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel | |
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| 1940 |
| | | British actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier marry | |
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