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January 19 – William Borah, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1907 to 1940 (born 1865) January 20 – Omar Bundy, U.S. Army General (born 1861) January – Matilda McCrear, last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade in the U.S. (born c. 1857 in Yorubaland) February 1 – Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers ...
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.
1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music popularity chart, the predecessor to today's Hot 100; 1940 – U.S. presidential election, 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president to a record third term, Henry A. Wallace is elected vice president; 1940 - Color television is demonstrated by the Columbia Broadcasting System
2021) October 18 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) October 23 – Charles R. Morris, American lawyer, banker and author (d. 2021) [27] October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor; October 27 – Suzy Covey, American scholar of popular culture (d. 2007) October 28 – Jane Alexander, American actress ...
2021) March 7. Michael Rosbash, American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017; Townes Van Zandt, American country singer (d. 1997) March 11 – Richard McGeagh, American Olympic swimmer and water polo player (d. 2021) [10] March 14 – Steve Daskewisz, American actor (d. 2018)
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
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