January 7, 1943 — Nikola Tesla dies
Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, and a personal and business rival of Thomas Edison for decades, died penniless...
November 29, 2018
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March 19, 1943 — Frank ‘The Enforcer’ Nitti commits suicide
The man in charge of all the muscle for Al Capone’s Chicago Outfit, Nitti was busted along with Capone in...
November 19, 2018
March 28, 1943 — Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
Born in 1873, Sergei Rachmaninoff was one of the greatest Russian composers of the Twentieth Century, and one of the...
November 14, 2018
August 19, 1943 — The first intentional acid trip is taken
It was supposed to be a headache cure. What Dr Albert Hofmann and his assistants were searching for, in their...
November 9, 2018
August 2, 1943 — The Japanese destroyer Amagiri rams and sinks US Navy PT-109
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, under the command of Lieutenant junior grade John F. Kennnedy, was one of 15 PT boats...
November 4, 2018
February 10, 1944 — Peter Allen is born Peter George Woolnough
Born in Tenterfield, in country New South Wales, Peter George Woolnough was performing from an early age. In the 1960’s,...
October 29, 2018
April 29, 1945 — Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler in 1929, when she was only 17 years old. At the time, she was...
October 19, 2018
September 5, 1945 — Iva Toguri D’Aquino is arrested under suspicion of being “Tokyo Rose”
During the Second World War, Japanese propagandist and DJ Tokyo Rose broadcasted to American and Allied soldiers from somewhere behind...
October 4, 2018
August 13, 1946 — H. G. Wells dies
The man who basically invented the modern science fiction novel (Jules Verne himself insisted that this was the case), one...
September 29, 2018
June 5, 1947 — The Marshall Plan is announced
Named for then US Secretary of State George Marshall, the Marshall Plan is one of the largest foreign aid schemes...
September 25, 2018
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