Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
Peder Oluf Pedersen was a Danish engineer and physicist. He is notable for his work on electrotechnology, his cooperation with Valdemar Poulsen on the developmental work on Wire re…
Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (born 1874)
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, was an Australian lawyer and politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1927 to 1930. He was born in New Zealand and arrived in Australia …
Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (born 1874)
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution o…
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (born 1892)
Carl D. "Lightning" Lloyd Seay was an early stock car racing driver from Dawsonville Georgia. NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. described Seay as the "best pure race driver I ever saw…
Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (born 1919)
Rafailo Momčilović was a Serbian Orthodox cleric, abbot of the Šišatovac Monastery, and painter. He was murdered in the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia which …
Rafailo Momčilović, Serbian Orthodox hegumen and painter (born 1875)
Aurelio Mario Gabriel Francisco García Menocal y Deop was the 3rd President of Cuba, serving from 1913 to 1921. His term as president saw Cuba's participation in the Allies in Worl…
Mario García Menocal, Cuban lawyer and politician, President of Cuba (born 1866)
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryoni…
Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
Christian Georgiyevich Rakovsky, Bulgarian name Krastyo Georgiev Rakovski, born Krastyo Georgiev Stanchov, was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and …
Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian physician, journalist, and politician, Soviet Ambassador to France (born 1873)
Aleksandra Adolfovna Izmailovich was a Belarusian socialist revolutionary. From a noble family, she joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) while studying in Saint Petersbur…
Aleksandra Izmailovich, Belarusian revolutionary (born 1878)
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), sh…
Maria Spiridonova, Russian revolutionary (born 1884)
Elias Charles Disney was a Canadian construction worker and entrepreneur. He was best known as the father of Roy and Walt Disney, co-founders of the Walt Disney Company. Elias was …
Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (born 1859)
Frederick John Westcott, best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was an English vaudeville impresario of the British music hall. As a comedian of slapstick he is credited with pop…
Fred Karno, English actor and screenwriter (born 1866)
Boris Kidrič was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi…
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
A German SS unit arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and began the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over 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: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's first feature film…
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network ra…
American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involv
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: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; t…
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audienc
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: German paratroopers began the Battle of Heraklion on the island of Crete, capturing the airfield and port
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 battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait
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 German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney and
During World War II, Dublin was first bombed early on the morning of 2 January 1941, when German bombs were dropped on the Terenure area. This was followed early on the following m…
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ir
The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who had seized power in …
The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II