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November 16 – An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended). December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
During the mid-1930s and throughout the years leading up to the 1940s Joe Louis was an enormously popular Heavyweight boxer. In 1936, he lost an important 12 round fight (his first loss) to the German boxer Max Schmeling and he vowed to meet Schmeling once again in the ring. Louis' comeback bout against Schmeling became an international symbol ...
The post 40 Curious History Facts And Stories That May Surprise Even The Most Knowledgeable first appeared on Bored Panda. ... Carved between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, these haunting engravings ...
Image credits: BrunetteTh0t #3. Magnolia trees are so old that they predate bees by about 40 million years, and as a result are pollinated by beetles. They are considered the first flowering plant ...
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
Vanessa Williams became the 1st Black Miss America on this day 40 years ago. ... Williams made history by becoming the first Black woman in the pageant’s six-decade history to win the Miss ...