1940

This is a list of various things that took place in 1940.
==Births==
January
*15 - Tommy Gilbert (Lexington, Tennesee)
February
*5 - Grady Johnson (Union Point, Georgia)
*11 - Espanto III
March
*10 - Chuck Norris (Navasota, Texas)
*24 - Don Jardine (Moncton, New Brunswick)
*25 - Jim Breaks (Bradford, Yorkshire), Joe Carollo (Wyandotte, Michigan)
April
*20 - El Matemático
May
*18 - Masio Koma
*26 - Joseph Maroon (Wheeling, West Virginia)
June
*16 - Sweet Daddy Siki (Montgomery, Texas)
*20 - Umanosuke Ueda (Yatomi, Aichi, Japan)
July
*4 - Bob Sweetan
*22 - Alex Trebek
August
*10 - Chucho Villa
September
:*3 - Spiros Arion (Athens, Greece)
October
*15 - Kay Noble (St. Joseph, Missouri)
*17 - Baron Von Raschke (Omaha, Nebraska)
*22 - Tom Jones (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
*28 - Les Thatcher (Cincinnati, Ohio)
November
*5 - Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras (Topilejo, Michoacán)
December
*5 - Adrian Street (Brynmawr, South Wales)
*5 - Bello Adrián
==Title changes==
June
* 23 - Ray Steele defeats Bronko Nagurski to win the World Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association).
Category: Wrestling Years