Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Norman Yew Heen Chow is an American football coach and former player who is an offensive analyst for the Vienna Vikings of the European League of Football (ELF). He was the head fo…
Norm Chow, American football player and coach
An independence referendum was held in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, on 14 September 1946. Although a narrow majority of valid votes were ca…
Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
"The Sources of Soviet Conduct", commonly "X Article", is an article written by George F. Kennan and published under the pseudonym "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs mag…
The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
A constitutional referendum was held in France on 13 October 1946. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution proposed by the Constituent Assembly elected in Jun…
France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plo…
Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German scientists, engineers and technicians, who worked in several areas from companies and institutio…
Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union,…
Raymond Carlos Nakai is a Native American flutist of Navajo and Ute heritage. Nakai played brass instruments in high school and college, and auditioned for the Armed Forces School …
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Gregory Girard Gumbel was an American television sportscaster. He was best known for his various assignments for CBS Sports. Gumbel became the first African-American announcer to c…
Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster (died 2024)
John Edward Barnard, is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chass…
John Barnard, English car designer
John Marshall Watson is a British former racing driver and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1985. Watson won five Formula One Grands Prix…
John Watson, British race car driver
James Milton Kelly was an American athlete, martial artist actor, and professional tennis player. After winning several karate championships, he rose to fame in the early 1970s app…
Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013)
Louise Harel is a Quebec politician. In 2005 she served as interim leader of the Parti Québécois following the resignation of Bernard Landry. She was also interim leader of the opp…
Louise Harel, Canadian lawyer and politician
John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), …
John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Marilyn Nelson is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate o…
Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
Larissa A. Schneider Grunig is a public relations theorist and feminist, and she is known as one of the most published and influential scholars in public relations. A professor eme…
Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in th…
Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author, and activist
John Woo Yu-sen is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre. The recipient of various accolades, including a Hong Kong Film Award for Be…
John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter
Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress. Beginning her recording career in the late 1960s, Houston scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me Th…
Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress
Marvin Ronald Hubbard was an American professional football fullback who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Oakland Raiders.
Marv Hubbard, American football player (died 2015)
William Kreutzmann Jr. is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fello…
Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer
Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the D…
Michael Rosen, English author and poet
Gary Lee Bauer is an American civil servant, activist, and former political candidate. He served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Under Secretary of Education and Chi…
Gary Bauer, American political activist
Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown. She is also known for her rol…
Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
Donovan Phillips Leitch is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored numerous international …
Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter