Explore 5072 historical events from 1940–1949.
Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Peró…
Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (born 1908)
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and …
Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator. She is the first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by …
Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (born 1910)
Wilhelm Marx was a German judge, lawyer, and politician who twice served as chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928. He also…
Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (born 1863)
Anthony Michael Lazzeri was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He …
Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (born 1903)
Albert Edward Ernest Vogler was a South African cricketer. A leading all-rounder skilled both at batting and bowling, Vogler played cricket in South Africa prior to becoming eligib…
Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (born 1876)
Che Yaoxian was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and an officer in the Sichuan army. In 1921, after meeting a local preacher in Jianyang, he converted to Christianity. In 19…
Che Yaoxian, Chinese communist (born 1894)
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social co…
H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (born 1866)
Luo Shiwen was a Chinese communist. Born in Weiyuan County, Sichuan, he became interested in communism during the May Fourth Movement before joining the Chinese Socialist Youth Lea…
Luo Shiwen, Chinese communist (born 1904)
Döme Sztójay was a Hungarian soldier and diplomat of Serb origin, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1944, during World War II.
Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1883)
James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of th…
James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862)
Abbie Jean MacPherson was an American silent actress, writer and director. She is known for her collaborations with directors D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and was a foundin…
Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (born 1887)
Adolphus Busch III was an American brewing magnate based in St. Louis, Missouri, who was the president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch from 1934 to 1946 during World War II.
Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (born 1891)
John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. …
John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (born 1897)
Konstantin Vladimirovich Rodzaevsky was the leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria. Rodzaevsky was also the chief editor of the RFP paper Nash Pu…
Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (born 1907)
Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for mos…
Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir isk…
Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)
William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the govern…
William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Roy…
James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)
Hans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician of part-Jewish descent who performed experiments upon Nazi concentration camp prisoners.
Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (born 1879)
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and exten…
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (born 1869)
Takashi Sakai was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, known for his role as Governor of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (born 1887)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Pea…
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets t
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 25, 1946, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Loomis Street in Naperville, Illinois, when the railroad's Exposition Fl…
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured