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1940
From Bloomingpedia
| Years: | 1937 1938 1939 – 1940 – 1941 1942 1943 |
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Significant events from 1940.
January
February
March
April
- ?? - IU Men's Basketball wins the national championship
May
- 10th - Richard Reed, an Indiana University student, falls over a cliff at McCormick's Creek State Park, and dies.
- 20th - Erle Showers, the last surviving male of the Showers line, passes away.
- Pete Athens opens a Grille and Ice Cream Parlor at 346 S. Walnut Street.
- A brick storage house of the Bloomington Feed Company is destroyed by fire. Located at the west edge of the Monon on Morton Street just south of 6th Street, the building had been condemned and losses were minimal. Originally a flour mill built by Andrew Helton in the 1860's, it had also served as the Monroe Mill, the Lyons Motor Sales headquarters, and other uses. Charles Records had bought the building from Bert Curry two years earlier.
June
July
August
September
October
- 1st - Jerry Yeagley is born
- 25th - Bobby Knight is born
November
December
Unspecified
- Construction on Swain Hall West is completed
