Arts & Crafts Events Births, Deaths and Marriages
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| 1940 | Feb 12 | Newcomb College Pottery closed. |
| Apr 09 | Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.1 |
| 1941 | Feb 12 | C.F.A.Voysey died in Winchester, Hampshire. |
| Dec 07 | Pearl Harbor attacked. The United States entered World War II the next day.1 |
| Dec 11 | Germany 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 09 | American 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 21 | Gustav Stickley died in Eastwood, New York.1 |
| May 23 | Charles Robert Ashbee died in Godden Green, Kent |
| 1944 | Jun 06 | The D-Day invasion of Europe took place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.1 |
| Oct 23 | Wilson Eyre Jr. died. |
| 1945 | Feb 10 | Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott died in Brighton, England. |
| Apr 12 | President Roosevelt died of massive cerebral hemmorage. Harry S. Truman inaugurated President of the United States.2 |
| Jun | John Hudson Thomas died.3 |
| Sep 02 | Japan surrendered. World War II ended.2 |
| 1946 | Sep 17 | Claude Fayette bragdon died in New York City, New York. |
| Nov 13 | Maynard Dixon died of a heart attack in Tuscon, Arizona. |