1940

1940 is a year in the 20th century.

Events

• August 20: In Mexico City, Leon Trotsky is assassinated by a Stalinist agent with an icepick. (TXF: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man")

Notes

• In 1997, Melvin Frohike believed that August 20 was the birthdate of the Cigarette Smoking Man. This is based on the Cigarette Smoking Man's novels, Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure and Second Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure, which Frohike believed was actually his autobiographies. (TXF: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man")

It should be noted that he could not have possibly been born in 1940, as this would conflict with him being seen as an adult in 1953, in the episode "Apocrypha."