Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
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
USS Nevada (BB-36), the third United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships. Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap f…
USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and…
Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for…
Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
Candid Camera is an American hidden camera and practical joke reality television series. The show was created, developed, and presented by Allen Funt. Various versions of the show …
Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as The Candid Microphone.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) is the Idaho state department which is responsible for preserving and managing Idaho's wildlife, including mammals, fish, birds, plants…
An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver drop occurred. This program relocated…
The First Republic of Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, was the government of South Korea from August 1948 to June 1960. The First Republic was founded on 15 August 1948, an…
The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world…
Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
Margit Papp is a Hungarian former athlete. She competed in the Summer Olympic Games in 1972, 1976 and 1980 and won the gold medal in women's pentathlon at the 1978 European Champio…
Margit Papp, Hungarian athlete
Patricia Hill Collins is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Marylan…
Patricia Hill Collins, American sociologist and scholar
Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers are an American country music vocal group. The group consists of lead singer Larry Gatlin and his brothers, Rudy and Steve Gatlin. The group achi…
Larry Gatlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyri…
The World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Repr…
The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day"…
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 421 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, that crashed on 29 August 1948. The…
Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a re…
In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the French…
The national flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea consists of a wide horizontal red stripe bordered above and below by a thin white stripe and a broad blue stripe. The…
The flag of North Korea is adopted with the passing of the country's first constitution by the Supreme People's…
Denis Edmund Cosgrove was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dea…
Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic and geographer (died 2008)
George Tupou V was King of Tonga from 2006 until his death in 2012. He was the eldest son of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV.
King George Tupou V of Tonga, (died 2012)
William Thomas Ward is an English drummer. He is the original drummer of Black Sabbath, co-founding the pioneering heavy metal band in 1969 alongside Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and …
Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva Aditya, known as Nirj Deva, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of the European Parliament for South Ea…
Nirj Deva, British politician
Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North…
Kim Il Sung is appointed as premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). This is celebrated…
Vallabhbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Patel, was a Gandhian Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister…
Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the…