What day of the week was February 29, 1940?

The day of the week February 29th, 1940 fell on was a Thursday. There were 24 days until Easter Sunday.

E. F. Benson the English archaeologist and author (b. 1867) died on this day in 1940.

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind the Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations. In a ceremony held in Berkeley the California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.