1942 — Franz Werfel’s “The Song of Bernadette” is published
A Jew from Prague who fled the Aunschluss in 1938, Franz Werfel was also a playwright noted for his satirical...
December 29, 2018
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March 2, 1942 — Lou Reed born
Lewis Allan Reed was born in Brookdale, and lived most of his life in New York City. He would become...
December 22, 2018
July 13, 1942 — Harrison Ford born
Born in Chicago, Harrison Ford would rise from humble beginnings to become one of the best known and highest grossing...
December 19, 2018
July 20, 1942 — The defence of the Kokoda Trail begins
It is one of Australia’s greatest military triumphs: a simple holding action across a narrow dirt trail that spanned the...
December 14, 2018
November 10, 1942 — Dr Charles Drew patents a method of preserving blood plasma
Born in 1904, Dr Charles Drew was one of the first black surgeons in the United States – although that...
December 9, 2018
November 27, 1942 — Jimi Hendrix born
While Jimi Hendrix may not have been the greatest guitar player of all time – although that’s not a bet...
December 4, 2018
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
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
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