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July 2 – Joshua Bryant, American actor, director, author and speaker (d. 2024) July 3. Fontella Bass, African-American soul singer ("Rescue Me") (d. 2012) Lance Larson, American swimmer, Olympic champion, world record-holder in four events (d. 2024) Chuck Sieminski, American football player (d. 2020) Lamar Alexander, American politician
This is a list of American television-related events in 1940. Events ... Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, ... 1940 in American television.
1940 – Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker make their cartoon debuts; 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
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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.
July 22 – Alex Trebek, game show host, Jeopardy! (died 2020) July 23 – Don Imus, American radio/television host, Imus in the Morning (died 2019) July 24 – Dan Hedaya, American actor; July 31 – Roy Walker, television host; August 3 – Martin Sheen, actor, The West Wing; August 19 Jill St. John, actress; Lou Wagner, actor
Old photos of the opening of the John T. Alsop Jr. Bridge, more commonly called the Main Street bridge, show a very different downtown in 1941.
Television portal; United States portal; Television series which originated in the United States in the decade 1940s. i.e. in the years 1940 to 1949.Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category and its sub-categories