March 27th, 1940 (WEDNESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Coastal Command: German patrol vessel bombed and sunk in North Sea.FRANCE: The government asks the USSR to recall its ambassador in Paris.
GERMANY: Heinrich Himmler orders the building of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. (Michael Ballard)
U.S.A.: The motion picture 'Rebecca' premieres at the Four Star Theater in Los Angeles, California. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this romantic thriller, based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel, stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny and Leo G. Carroll.