Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Frances Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the C…
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
North Borneo was a British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The territory of North Borneo was originally established by concessions of the Sultanates of B…
The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
Aloha Airlines was a United States airline that operated passenger flights from 1946 until 2008. It was headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, operating from its hub at Honolulu Intern…
Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on August 4 at 13:51 AST near Samaná, Dominican Republic. It was the largest earthquake to occur in the instrumental era in the Cari…
An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress (AHTUC) was a trade union centre in the Hyderabad State. Affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress, it claimed a membership of around …
The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
"Restatement of Policy on Germany", or the "Speech of Hope", is a speech given by James F. Byrnes, the US secretary of state, in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946.
United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic…
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, or simply Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airlin…
Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plo…
Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
The Autumn Uprising of 1946, also called the 10.1 Daegu Uprising of 1946 was a peasant uprising in South Korea against the policies of the United States Army Military Government in…
The Daegu October incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
American Overseas Airlines (AOA) was an airline that operated between the United States and Europe between 1945 and 1950. It was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and…
The International Court of Justice, or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It settles legal disputes submitted to it by states…
The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the…
Jackie Robinson makes his regular season debut for the Montreal Royals of the International League, to make them the fir
The V-2 No. 13 was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. Launched on 24 October 1946, at the White Sands Missile Ra…
A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
Margot Susanna Adler was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York off…
Margot Adler, American journalist and author (died 2014)
Ernst Carel Bakker was a Dutch politician, alderman and member of the Democrats 66 political party. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1981 to 1982. He join…
Ernst Bakker, Dutch politician (died 2014)
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Pea…
The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other we…
The U
Manuel Acuña Roxas was the fifth president of the Philippines, serving from 1946 until his death in 1948. He served briefly as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of t…
Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to t…
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to t…
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government
Johnnie N. Lewis was a Liberian lawyer and politician who served as the 18th Chief Justice of Liberia from 2006 to 2012. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, he served as a…
Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Justice of Liberia (died 2015)
Clare Mary Francis MBE is a British novelist who in her first career as a yachtswoman has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own. She was the first woman to skipper a successf…
Clare Francis, English sailor and author
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an English actress and singer. A daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she began her act…
Hayley Mills, English actress
Timothy James Curry is an Emmy Award-winning English actor and singer. He is famous for playing many villainous roles and rose to prominence as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the musical fi…
Tim Curry, English actor and singer