Marvel Comics introduces superhero Captain America in March 1941.
After approximately 14 years, carving at Mount Rushmore concludes in October 1941.
Diarist Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Achterhuis" on July 6, 1942, in Amsterdam.
Walt Disney wins a 1943 Academy Award for his animated short film Der Fuehrer's Face.
Band leader Alton Glenn Miller disappears while enroute to Paris, France, December 15, 1944.
Department stores begin selling Tupperware® in 1946.
Charles Yeager becomes the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 ft.
NASCAR® holds its first modified stock car race in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1948.
George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949.
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