Explore 3061 historical events from 1940–1949.
Pascal Quignard is a French writer born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure. In 1980 his novel Carus was awarded the Prix des Critiques. In 2002 Les Ombres errantes won the Prix Goncourt, F…
Pascal Quignard, French author and screenwriter
Serge Thériault is a Canadian comedian and actor from Quebec. He is best known for his collaborations with Claude Meunier, including the Ding et Dong comedy duo and the spinoff tel…
Serge Thériault, Canadian actor
Argeo Paul Cellucci was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 69th governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2001 and as the…
Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (died 2013)
United Air Lines Flight 624 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from San Diego, California, to New York City, with stopovers in Los Angeles and Chicago. The four-engined, pro…
United Air Lines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board
HMT Empire Windrush was a passenger motor ship that was launched in Germany in 1930 as the MV Monte Rosa. She was built as an ocean liner for the German shipping company Hamburg Sü…
The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of mode
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 193…
King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of In
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impo
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade
Eliana Gil, is a lecturer, writer, and clinician of marriage, family and child. She is on the board of a number of professional counselling organizations that use play and art ther…
Eliana Gil, Ecuadorian-American psychiatrist, therapist, and author
Michael Walter William Selvey is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator.
Mike Selvey, English cricketer and sportscaster
You Si-kun, also romanized Yu Shyi-kun, is a Taiwanese politician. He was one of the founding members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and is known to be a strong advocat…
Yu Shyi-kun, Taiwanese politician, 39th Premier of the Republic of China
Josef Hickersberger is a former professional football player and former coach of the Austria national football team and Austrian club side Rapid Wien.
Josef Hickersberger, Austrian footballer, coach, and manager
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were j…
William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform
Lionel "Dick" Turpin was an English middleweight boxer. He was British and Commonwealth middleweight champion, reputedly being the first black fighter to win a British boxing title…
Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in t
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is a part of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and is one of the six …
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency …
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and …
Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Marcia Ann Strassman was an American actress and singer. She had roles on the TV programs Welcome Back, Kotter and M*A*S*H, as well as in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the …
Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (died 2014)
Edith Joy Brown Clement is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Edith Brown Clement, American judge
Wayne Stanley Kramer was an American musician, songwriter, producer, and film and television composer. Kramer came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of the Detroit r…
Wayne Kramer, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Pierre Pagé is a Canadian former ice hockey coach and executive. He only played briefly while attending college at St. Francis Xavier University in 1970-71, then turned to coaching…
Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-c…
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. In 2024 its population was 75,704. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political,…
Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to…