History
- Jackie Robinson becomes first black baseball player
- Dec. 7, 1941- Japanese sneak bombing on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
- Feb. 19, 1942- As part of Executive Order 9066, all American-born Japanese and Japanese immigrants living in the US were to be put in relocation centers and detention camps
- The Holocaust
- Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is published
- South Africa institutes the policy of apartheid
- June 21, 1943- race riots in Detroit cause over 40 deaths and over 700 injuries
- August 6, 1945- first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, a civilian area
- August 9, 1945- 2nd atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, another civilian area
This was just some of the hate against the Japanese-Americans in the US in the 1940s!
- Billie Holiday
- Dean Martin
- Frank Sinatra
- Rosemary Clooney
- Glenn Miller
- The Dorsey Brothers
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Black Swan
- The Bells of St. Mary's
- Destination Tokyo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Major Barbara
- Oliver Twist
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- Sands of Iwo Jima
- Picture of Dorian Grey
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- The Keys to the Kingdom
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Celebrities popular:
Joan Fontaine
Judy Garland
People born: why does it seem that most of the people born in the 1940s are British musicians?
David Bowie
Mick Jagger
Was originally in the Rolling Stones before Ronnie Wood came along
Paul McCartney
I thought he was personally the cutest Beatle!!!!
Ringo Starr
Bruce Lee
Richard Pryor
Alice Cooper
Phylicia Rashad
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