Timeline Tuesday 9 April 1940

Events on Tuesday 9 April 1940 5

• 1865 – 1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) Died 9 April 1940, aged 75 English stage actress for whom George Bernard Shaw wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion". She died in Pau, France.
• 1940 Battles of Narvik Allied and German forces fight over the iron-ore port German forces seized the northern Norwegian port of Narvik on 9 April. British, French, Polish and Norwegian troops retook the town in late May but withdrew in early June as the situation in France collapsed. The naval battles in the fjord cost Germany ten destroyers.
• 1940 Fleeing the Nazi Invasion When Nazi Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, three-year-old Harald, his mother and his two sisters were rushed northward, crossing into Sweden under fire. They eventually made their way to the United States, settling in Washington, DC, while his father and grandfather King Haakon VII remained in London with the government-in-exile.
• 1940 German invasion of Denmark and Norway Operation Weserübung secures Scandinavia for Germany On 9 April Germany invaded Denmark, which surrendered within hours, and Norway, which fought on with Allied support. The campaign ended when the last Norwegian forces capitulated on 10 June. King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government went into exile in London.
• 1940 Sinking of the Blücher Battle of Drøbak Sound Norwegian coastal artillery sank the German cruiser, allowing the King and government to escape.