Events in Sport
- Jan 1 26th Rose Bowl: #3 Southern California beats #2 Tennessee, 14-0
- Jan 1 6th Sugar Bowl: #1 Texas A&M beats #5 Tulane, 14-13
- Jan 1 6th Orange Bowl: #16 Georgia Tech beats #6 Missouri, 21-7
- Jan 14 Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
- Jan 14 2nd NFL All Star Game, Gilmore Stadium, LA, CA: Green Bay Packers beat NFL All-Stars, 16-7
- Jan 19 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Helen Hicks wins by 1 stroke ahead of Helen Dettweiler
- Jan 28 Chicago's Les Cunningham scores 5 points in one period to set an NHL record that stands until 1978; records 2 goals & 3 assists in a 10:04 span during the 3d period of an 8-1 win over Montreal
- Jan 29 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her 2nd Australian singles titles; beats Thelma Coyne 5-7, 6-4, 6-0
- Jan 29 Australian Championships men's Tennis: Australian Adrian Quist beats countryman Jack Crawford 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 for his 2nd Australian title
- Feb 9 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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Sports Stars Married in 1940
- May 25 MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach
- Aug 12 PGA golfer Sam Snead (28) weds high school sweetheart Audrey Karnes
- Aug 31 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York