Timeline Thursday 26 September 1940

Events on Thursday 26 September 1940 2

• 1892 – 1940 Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) Died 26 September 1940, aged 48 German-Jewish philosopher and critic, author of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". He fled occupied France and killed himself in Portbou after Spanish officials threatened to return his group to France.
• 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina Japan moves into northern Indochina Japanese forces invaded northern French Indochina on 22 September and fought briefly with French colonial troops before a settlement. Japan wanted to cut supply routes to China. The move led the United States to embargo scrap iron and steel exports to Japan.