Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 – 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
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 ...
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
It is the first of six package films they would release throughout the remainder of the 1940s. February 7 – WWII: It is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in the US in two days. February 8 – WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal – United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
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)
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 ...