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1940: John Randall and Harry Boot would develop the high power, microwave generating, cavity magnetron, later applied to commercial Radar and Microwave oven appliances. [478] 1941: Polyester is invented by John Rex Whinfield and James Dickson. [479] 1942: The V-2 rocket, the world's first long range ballistic missile, developed by engineer ...
Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940), decided, allowing a racially restrictive covenant to be lifted. November 13 – Walt Disney's third feature film, Fantasia, is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it recoups its cost years later and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
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
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.
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 ...
It is Disney's second of six package films to be released through the 1940s and the first feature film to incorporate traditional animation with live-action actors. February 4 – WW II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference (ends ...
1940 - Population: 267,583. [11] 1942 - Birmingham Historical Society founded. [21] 1949 - WAPI-TV and WBRC-TV begin broadcasting. [22] 1950 Birmingham Post-Herald newspaper in publication. [5] Population: 326,037. [11] 1955 - Birmingham Zoo established. [23] 1956 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights headquartered in Birmingham.
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)