Explore 1843 historical events from 1940–1949.
Lieutenant colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan former politician and retired military officer who served as the eighth president of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019…
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th president of Sri Lanka
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead si…
Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Danish-born Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century.
Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
Benjamin Rice Faunce Jr. (1873–1949) was an American druggist and businessman who created the soft drink Boost! and established the Boost! Company.
Benjamin Faunce, American druggist and businessman (born 1873)
Frederick Ingram Walden was an English professional footballer who played outside right for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 19…
Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (born 1888)
Louis II was Prince of Monaco from 26 June 1922 to 9 May 1949.
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (born 1870)
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou, was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between…
Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1891)
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann and Golo Mann.
Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1906)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made i…
Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (born 1872)
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He wa…
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Alexey Victorovich Shchusev was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau, Constructivism, and Stalini…
Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (born 1873)
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, televisi…
Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He w…
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (born 1874)
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space. He flew from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States, t…
Albert II, rhesus macaque, animal astronaut, and first mammal in space
Frank Elbridge Webb was an American engineer who served as the Farmer–Labor Party's presidential candidate in 1928. In the 1932 presidential election, he was initially renominated …
Frank Elbridge Webb, American engineer and presidential candidate (born 1869)
Syed Zafarul Hasan was a Pakistani Islamic philosopher.
Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (born 1885)
Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
Rainier III became Prince of Monaco, beginning a 56-year reign, which would make him one of the longest ruling monarchs
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 is an Act of the Oireachtas which declares that the description of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland, and vests in the president of Ireland the po…
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Comm
Lorenzo Abrogar Gamboa was a Filipino-American man who was excluded from Australia under the White Australia policy, despite having an Australian wife and children. His treatment s…
In response to the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy, the Philippine House of Representatives
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final c…
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional total
United Nations Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on 21 April 1948, concerns the resolution of the Kashmir conflict. After hearing arguments from both India and Pakistan, the …
United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers o…
Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center
The Council of Europe is an international organisation which aims to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergover…
The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress