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10 July 10, 1940 (Wednesday) 11 July 11, 1940 ... the largest movement of wealth in history. ... Alex Trebek, television game show host, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada ...
The Fighting 69th (1940) – action-adventure war film based upon the actual exploits of New York City's 69th Infantry Regiment during World War I [14] Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) – Australian war film telling the story of the Australian Light Horse which operated in the desert at the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I [ 15 ]
July 18 – James Brolin, actor, Marcus Welby, M.D. July 22 – Alex Trebek, game show host, Jeopardy! (died 2020) July 23 – Don Imus, American radio/television host, Imus in the Morning (died 2019) July 24 – Dan Hedaya, American actor; July 31 – Roy Walker, television host; August 3 – Martin Sheen, actor, The West Wing; August 19
August 1 – W2XBS goes out of commission from 1 August 1940 until the 27th of October 1940 while the transmitter is adjusted from 441-line picture to 525-line picture. [6] [7] August 29 – Peter Carl Goldmark of CBS announces his invention of a color television system.
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July 1 – Ben Turpin, comic silent film actor (born 1869) July 15 – Robert Wadlow, tallest man ever (born 1918) July 30 – Spencer S. Wood, U.S. Navy rear admiral (born 1861) August 5 – Frederick Cook, explorer (born 1865) August 8 – Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist (born 1892) August 18 – Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (born 1875)
The three-panel fire screen, which covers the fireplace almost completely, has two side panels angled away from the central panel. It is an effective way of providing decoration in a room. The horse screen, or cheval screen (cheval is the French word for horse) was in common use from the 18th century. It is a wide screen having two feet on each ...