La bataille de Gembloux est livrée entre l'Armée française et les Allemands du 14 au 15 mai 1940 lors de la campagne de France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.. Elle représente une éphémère victoire tactique qui permet de retarder la progression allemande, se terminant toutefois par une retraite française.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.. It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), whose …

Horace Jackson Brown Jr. (March 14, 1940 – November 30, 2021) was an American author who was best known for his inspirational book, Life's Little Instruction Book, which was a The New York Times Best Seller (1991–1994). Its sequel Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993.

Roma ' s keel was laid by the Italian shipbuilder Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico on 18 September 1938, and she was launched on 9 June 1940. After just over two years of fitting-out, the new battleship was commissioned into the Regia Marina on 14 June 1942. She arrived in the major naval base of Taranto on 21 August, and was assigned to the Ninth Naval Division.