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1940Feb 12Newcomb College Pottery closed.
Apr 09Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.1
1941Feb 12C.F.A.Voysey died in Winchester, Hampshire.
Dec 07Pearl Harbor attacked. The United States entered World War II the next day.1
Dec 11Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.1
1942--Louis Christian Mulgardt died in Stockton, California.
--Ralph Adams Cram died.
Apr 09American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces during World War II; the surrender was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March, which claimed nearly 10,000 lives.1
Apr 21Gustav Stickley died in Eastwood, New York.1
May 23Charles Robert Ashbee died in Godden Green, Kent
1944Jun 06The D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.1
Oct 23Wilson Eyre Jr. died.
1945Feb 10Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott died in Brighton, England.
Apr 12President Roosevelt died of massive cerebral hemmorage. Harry S. Truman inaugurated President of the United States.2
JunJohn Hudson Thomas died.3
Sep 02Japan surrendered. World War II ended.2
1946Sep 17Claude Fayette bragdon died in New York City, New York.
Nov 13Maynard Dixon died of a heart attack in Tuscon, Arizona.
1 New York Times on the Web
2 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
3 US Social Security Death Index