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The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots were a Black pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Their unique musical style led to the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop. The Ink Spots were widely accepted in both the white and black communities, largely due to the ballad style introduced to the group by lead singer Bill Kenny. [https://youtu.be/6l6vqPUM_FE] -
Germany withdraws from the league of legends
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Frank Sinatra
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Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Operation Skorpion
Operation Skorpion was a military operation during the north African campaign of World War 2, fought between Axis Forces under colonel Maximilian Von Herff and British forces under lieutenant General William "Strafer" Gott. -
M&Ms start being sold commercially
During the Spanish civil war Forrest mars encountered soldiers eating small chocolate beads encased in a hard sugar shell as part of their rations. In an age when chocolate sales typically dropped off during the summer months due to lack of air conditioning Forrest was thrilled by the prospect of developing a product that would be able to resist melting in high temperatures. In March of 1941 Mars was granted a patent for his manufacturing process and production began in Newark New Jersey. -
Mount Rushmore construction finished
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, a granite batholith formation in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. -
First Atomic Bomb tested
First atomic bomb successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In February 1940, the federal government a total of $6000 for research, but as fear rose of Germany working on its own bomb the war department took a more active interest, and limits on resources for the project were removed. The project took final form in the desert of New Mexico where in 1943 Robert j. Oppenheimer began directing project Y at a laboratory at losAlamos. -
Fastest car in the 40s
Perhaps the best testament to how dominant the Duesenberg was is that for the next decade, no one could create a faster car – although in all fairness, no one really cared about that during WWII. After the war, it was time for the Jaguar to rise to prominence, and the XK was sold between 1948 and 1954. It was Jaguar’s first sports car since the SS 100, which ceased production in 1940. For high speeds, the windshield had to be folded down.
