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Child evacuees in Reading, the children are carrying Gas masks which were issued to British civilians in 1938 during the Munich Crisis (1940) [24] There was a slump in birth rates in the UK between the two major baby booms following each world war. This roughly correlated with the economic downturn in the 1930s and World War II. [25]
Pew Research Center defines this cohort as being born from 1901 to 1927. [6] Strauss and Howe use the birth years 1901–1924. [7] The first half of this generation, born between 1901 and 1912, is sometimes referred to as the Interbellum Generation. The majority of veterans who served in World War II were born during the second half of this ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
Julian Chagrin (born 1940) John Challis (1942–2021) Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944) (born in Santa Monica, California, United States) Graham Chapman (1941–1989) Ian Charleson (1949–1990) Julie Christie (born 1940) (born in Chabua, India) Warren Clarke (1947–2014) Stephanie Cole (born 1941) David Collings (1940–2020) Lewis Collins (1946 ...
A. Hans Günther Aach; Gunnar Aagaard Andersen; Paavo Aaltonen; Hans Aaraas; Sam Aaronovitch; Eric Aarons; Ulf Aas; Germán Abad Valenzuela; Konstantin Abazovsky
Between 1939 and 1944 (the peak of wartime production), the nation's output almost doubled. Consequently, unemployment plummeted—from 14% in 1940 to less than 2% in 1943, as the labor force grew by ten million. The war economy was not so much a triumph of free enterprise as the result of government bankrolling business.
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...