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September 14, 1940

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Notable Births

Ventseslav Konstantinov

1940Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator (died 2019)[†]

Ventseslav Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator of German and English literature.

Larry Brown (basketball)

1940Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach[†]

Lawrence Harvey Brown is an American basketball coach and former player who last served as an assistant coach for the Memphis Tigers. Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title. He has a 1,275–965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams to the playoffs. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. He is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season. Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and professionally in the ABA.

1940Padmakar Shivalkar, Indian cricketer (died 2025)[†]

Padmakar Kashinath Shivalkar was an Indian first class cricketer. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, Shivalkar spent over 20 years playing for Bombay and is the team's highest wicket taker of all time. He was almost 50 when he retired. In 2016, he received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour conferred by BCCI on a former player.

Historical Events

Ip massacre

1940Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.[†]

In the Ip massacre the Royal Hungarian Army indiscriminately massacred around 150 ethnic Romanians on 14 September 1940, in Ipp,, Northern Transylvania, and in nearby locations and surrounding areas. After two Hungarian soldiers died there in an accidental explosion, rumors spread that they had been killed by Romanians. The Ip massacre was a reprisal in response to those rumors.