Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then n…
Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
Linnie Marsh Wolfe was an American librarian. She won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for her 1945 biography of John Muir titled Son of the Wilderness: The L…
Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (born 1881)
Count John Francis McCormack, was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control…
John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (born 1884)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 190…
Volin, Russian anarchist intellectual (born 1882)
General Augusto Tasso Fragoso, better known as Tasso Fragoso was a Brazilian military, judge of the Superior Military Court and writer. During the Revolution of 1930 he was preside…
Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (born 1869)
William Buehler Seabrook was an American occultist, explorer, world traveler, journalist and author. He began his career as a reporter and city editor of the Augusta Chronicle in G…
William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (born 1884)
Eduard Wirths was the chief SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by t…
Eduard Wirths, German physician (born 1909)
Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying …
Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (born 1882)
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are r…
Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1881)
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupati
Jasenovac was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia…
About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 manage
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: The US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp (pictured) in Germany, freei
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdr
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located th…
The Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps were liberated by the United States Army
Major Kenji Hatanaka was a Japanese military officer and one of the chief conspirators in the Kyūjō incident, a plot to seize the Imperial Palace and to prevent the broadcast of E…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: The U
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery duri
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Geor
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
Second World War: The German ocean liner Cap Arcona, afloat in the Bay of Lübeck with thousands of concentration camp su
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and air…
World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers
Sétif is the capital city of the Sétif Province and the 5th most populous city of Algeria, with an estimated population of 1,866,845 in 2017). It is one of the most important citie…
A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by repri