-Jackie Robinson becomes first black baseball player
-Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is published
-June 21, 1943: race riots in Detroit cause over 40 deaths and over 700 injuries
-Aug. 6, 1945: the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The 2nd one is dropped 3 days later on Nagasaki
-Mount Rushmore is completed
-Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
The Baby Boom: sudden spike in birth rate
Movies
-Arsenic and Old Lace
-The Bells of St. Mary's
-The Black Swan
-Destination Tokyo
-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-Dumbo
-Fantasia
-For Whom the Bell Tolls
-The Grapes of Wrath
-Oliver Twist
-Major Barbara
-Our Town
-The Keys to the Kingdom
-The Lady from Shanghai
-Cabin in the Sky
-It's a Wonderful Life
-Pinocchio
-She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
-The Ox-Bow Incident
-Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
-Sergeant York
-The Sands of Iwo Jima
-The Postman Always Rings Twice
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
Music
-Rosemary Clooney
-Count Basie
-Artie Shaw
-Dizzy Gillespie
-Bing Crosby
-Dean Martin
-Frank Sinatra
-Perry Como
-The Dorsey Brothers
-Glenn Miller
-Louis Armstrong
-Duke Ellington
-Ella Fitzgerald
-Billie Holiday
People Born/Famous
Famous Celebs
-Joan Fontaine
People Born
Why does it seem like alot of the people born in the 1940s are Italian actors or musicians or British born musicians????
-Al Pacino
-Ronnie Wood
-Mick Taylor
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