Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing an…
D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1875)
Joel Woolf Barnato was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the 24 Hours of Le …
Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (born 1898)
Joseph Bert Tinker was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played from 1902 through 1916 for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB…
Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (born 1880)
Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricketer who played for both Devon and Somerset in the late 19th century. He made six first-class appearances for Somerset, all in 1897, but wa…
Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (born 1871)
Charles Bryant was a British actor and film director.
Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (born 1879)
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capi…
Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (born 1885)
Kan'ichi Asakawa was a Japanese academic, author, historian, curator and peace advocate. Asakawa was Japanese by birth and citizenship though he lived the majority of his life in …
Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (born 1873)
Andrew M. Brown was a Scottish-American soccer player, executive and coach who had a short tenure as coach of the United States men's national soccer team.
Andrew Brown, Scottish footballer and coach (born 1870)
Augustus Montague Summers was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–168…
Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (born 1880)
Eliška Misáková was a Czech gymnast who was selected to attend the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (born 1926)
George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambin…
Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (born 1895)
Charles Evans Hughes was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party,…
Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1862)
Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the Deutsche Bundespost issued…
Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer (born 1872)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician. He was the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief" after the Second World War, and was responsible for developing the Soviet c…
Andrei Zhdanov, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1896)
Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of…
Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (born 1883)
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his se…
Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (born 1884)
Richard Chace Tolman was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who made many contributions to statistical mechanics and theoretical cosmology. He was a professor …
Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (born 1881)
Ferdinand I was the monarch of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, reigning as Prince of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1908 and Tsar of Bulgaria from 1908 until his abdication in 1918. Under his r…
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (born 1861)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan. He served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the independence of Pakistan on …
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (born 1876)
Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and academic (born 1887)
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many …
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish soldier and diplomat (born 1895)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world t…
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded
The 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine was the first phase of the 1948 Palestine war. It broke out after the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution on …
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army
High Explosive Research (HER) was the British project to develop atomic bombs independently after the Second World War. This decision was taken by a cabinet sub-committee on 8 Janu…
The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was independently developing nuclear weapons, after the US Atomic Energy A