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Events on Tuesday 15 October 1940 2
1882 – 1940Lluís Companys (1882-1940)Died 15 October 1940, aged 58President of the Generalitat of Catalonia during the Civil War. The Gestapo arrested him in France and handed him to Franco's regime. He was shot at Montjuïc Castle in Barcelona.
1940The Great Dictator premieresChaplin satirises HitlerCharlie Chaplin's first full talking picture premiered in New York on 15 October. Chaplin played both a Jewish barber and the dictator Adenoid Hynkel, a parody of Adolf Hitler. It was Chaplin's most commercially successful film.