Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916…
Frank Morgan, American actor (born 1890)
George Shiels was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His most famous plays are The Rugged Path, The Passi…
George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (born 1886)
Nikos Skalkottas was a Greek composer of 20th-century classical music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Gre…
Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (born 1901)
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens, born Charilaos Filippidis, was the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece between 1938 and 1941.
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (born 1881)
Rosa Olitzka was a German-born contralto singer. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1895 to 1901, and with the Chicago Opera from 1910 to 1911.
Rosa Olitzka, German-American contralto singer (born 1873)
Chikuhei Nakajima , was a Japanese businessman, naval engineer, naval officer, and politician who was most notable for having founded Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1917, a major su…
Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (born 1884)
Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist.
Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (born 1902)
Mary Acworth Evershed was a British astronomer and scholar. Her work on Dante Alighieri was written under the pen name M.A. Orr.
Mary Acworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (born 1867)
Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, was a Royal Navy officer and courtier.
Lionel Halsey, English admiral and courtier (born 1872)
Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French professional boxer and world middleweight champion in 1948–1949. He is considered by many to be France's greatest boxer ever, and one of the …
Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (born 1916)
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.
George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1872)
Thomas Slater Price (1875–1949) was a British chemist.
Thomas Slater Price, British chemist (born 1875)
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 is an Act of the Oireachtas which declares that the description of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland, and vests in the president of Ireland the po…
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Comm
Lorenzo Abrogar Gamboa was a Filipino-American man who was excluded from Australia under the White Australia policy, despite having an Australian wife and children. His treatment s…
In response to the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy, the Philippine House of Representatives
Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final c…
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional total
Francisco Javier Arana Castro was a Guatemalan military leader and one of the three members of the revolutionary junta that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 du…
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of…
A jet airliner or jetliner is an airliner powered by jet engines. Airliners usually have two or four jet engines; three-engined designs were popular in the 1970s but became less co…
The world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production, the de Havilland Comet, had its maiden flight.
A magnitude 6.4 Ms earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital Ambato and killed 5,050 people on August 5, 1949. The nearby villages of Guano, Patate, …
An earthquake registering 6.4 Ms struck near Ambato, Ecuador, killing 5,050 people.
The nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union were performed between 1949 and 1990 as part of the nuclear arms race. The Soviet Union conducted 715 nuclear tests using 969 total de…
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP…
Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng Liansong's design for the…
The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and sole governing party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded i…
Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly proclaimed (pictured) the establishment of the People's Republic…
The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders were a series of trials held from 1949 to 1958 in which leaders of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) were accused of …
The first of the Smith Act trials concluded in New York City, with eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United…
The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on 17 to 18 acres of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. It borders First Av…
The cornerstone of the United Nations headquarters was laid in New York City.