Historical Events in September 1940

Sep 2 PGA Championship, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C'ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final

Sep 3 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)

Sep 3 Dutch government in exile of Gerbrandy forms in London
Sep 3 Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
Sep 3 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
Sep 4 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
Sep 4 Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile
Sep 4 Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands
Sep 6 Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
Sep 6 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
Sep 7 Beginning of the Blitz, the German Luftwaffe bomb London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
Sep 7 Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
Sep 7 Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
Sep 9 28 German aircraft shot down above England

Sep 9 60th U.S. Men's National Championship: Donald McNeill beats Bobby Riggs (4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5)

Sep 9 54th U.S. Women's National Championship: Alice Marble beats Helen Jacobs (6-2, 6-3)

Sep 10 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
Sep 11 -12] Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
Sep 11 54th US Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
Sep 11 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
Sep 11 Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England)
Sep 11 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
Sep 12 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
Sep 12 Italian troops enter Egypt
Sep 12 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
Sep 13 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
Sep 13 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
Sep 14 US Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
Sep 14 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die
Sep 15 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
Sep 15 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
Sep 15 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company

Sep 15 PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group, RAF

Sep 15 Climax of the Battle of Britain, tide turns as Luftwaffe loses 56 aircraft, RAF 28

Sep 16 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)

Sep 16 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"

Sep 17 Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
Sep 17 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain
Sep 18 19 German aircraft shot down above England
Sep 18 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda" premieres in NYC
Sep 18 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
Sep 19 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes

Sep 19 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance

Sep 23 Dutch artist Piet Mondrian leaves Europe for New York, where he lives for the rest of his life

Sep 24 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
Sep 24 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
Sep 25 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
Sep 26 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed
Sep 26 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
Sep 27 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
Sep 27 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
Sep 27 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
Sep 27 Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
Sep 27 Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
Sep 28 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
Sep 28 Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
Sep 28 Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
Sep 29 "Double or Nothing", a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
Sep 29 "Strike Up the Band" opens

Sep 29 1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware