Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
Peter Carey, Australian novelist and short story writer
Dame Patricia Mary W. Barker, is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. She is k…
Pat Barker, English author
Sir John Vincent Cable is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from…
Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
Colin Trevor Pillinger, was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at The Open University in Milton Keynes;…
Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (died 2014)
The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). It is headquartered at Barksdale…
World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on…
The Second Philippine Republic, officially the Republic of the Philippines and also known as the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic, was a pro-Axis government established on Oc…
World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its…
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or locally as the Death Railway, is a 415 km (258 mi) railway between Ban Pong, Thail…
The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to …
The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian…
Streptomycin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, endocarditis, brucellosis, Burkholderi…
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India. It was established in exile in Japanese-…
World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
Nancy Catherine Greene Raine is a former Canadian Senator for British Columbia and an Olympic alpine champion voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century. She was born in …
Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician
Haydee Raquel Blandón Sandoval was a Guatemalan lawyer, activist, and political leader who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991, as the wife of President Vinicio…
Raquel Blandón, Guatemalan lawyer and activist, First Lady of Guatemala (died 2024)
Judith Ann Jamison was an American dancer and choreographer. She danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1965 to 1980 and was Ailey's muse. She later returned to be…
Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (died 2024)
The Kassel World War II bombings were a set of Allied strategic bombing attacks which took place from February 1942 to March 1945. In a single deadliest raid on 22–23 October 1943,…
World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the British Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of…
Richard Allen Epstein is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is t…
Richard Allen Epstein, American lawyer, author, and academic
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemp…
Janet Evanovich, American author
Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known for scoring a then record 42 points fo…
Gail Goodrich, American basketball player and coach
Gary Malcolm Wright was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive". Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975)…
Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023)
Mary Esther Wells was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.
Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (died 1992)
John Symon Asher Bruce was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and bassist of rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a …
Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland, serving from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the …
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 5th President of Iceland
Paul Bégin is a former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister. Member of the Parti Québecois, he served as the province's Justice Minister from 1994 to 1997 and from 2001 to 2002.
Paul Bégin, Canadian lawyer and politician
Frederick James Perren was an American songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor. He co-wrote and co-produced songs including "Boogie Fever" by the S…
Freddie Perren, American songwriter, producer, and conductor (died 2004)
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presid…
Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (died 2011)