Explore 4729 historical events from 1940–1949.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Footba…
The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World
John Keith Crisco Sr. was an American businessman and public official from the State of North Carolina.
Keith Crisco, American businessman and politician (died 2014)
Louise Elisabeth Glück was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty m…
Louise Glück, American poet (died 2023)
John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 t…
John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (died 2012)
The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic population incr…
The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days
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 Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war
Bamber Bridge is a large village in Lancashire, England, 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Preston, in the borough of South Ribble. The name derives from the Old English "bēam" and "bry…
US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mut
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered ar…
The Holocaust and World War II: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis
Scott Williams is a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.
Scott W
Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito was a Canadian-American professional ice hockey goaltender, who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), 15 of those for the Chicago B…
Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Frans Thomas Koppelaar is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. R…
Hervé Villechaize, French actor (died 1993)
Richard Anthony Sterban is an American singer. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. In 1972, he joined the country and gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, in which he sings bass.
Richard Sterban, American country and gospel bass singer
The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk i…
World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle,…
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the At…
World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident…
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It…
World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as…
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. World War II …
World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break…
Gordon West was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at Everton.
Gordon West, English footballer (died 2012)
Anthony Fitzgerald, known professionally as Tony Christie, is an English musician and singer. He found prominence in the early 1970s with successful singles including "Las Vegas", …
Tony Christie, English singer-songwriter and actor
Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, …
Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
Helmut Marko is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from 1971 to 1972. In endurance racing, Marko won the 24 Hou…
Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver and manager
Aryeh Bibi is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2009 and 2013.
Aryeh Bibi, Iraqi-born Israeli politician
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukra…
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat…
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which Allied forces invaded the Italian island of Sic…
World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.