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Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film loosely based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 23 February 1940.

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions. It reached US theaters on 13 November 1940.

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 23 October 1941.

Germany's 1,350-tonne Krupp-built railway gun Schwerer Gustav fired roughly 48 shells at the Soviet fortress city of Sevastopol in June 1942, its only combat use in the war. Trains as War Machines features the gun as an extreme case of rail warfare.

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It reached US theaters on 13 August 1942.

Saludos Amigos (Spanish for "Greetings, Friends") is a 1942 American live-action/animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 19 February 1943.

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 3 February 1945.

Pietro Ferrero's firm is officially born in Alba, Piedmont, on 14 May 1946, months after his cheap hazelnut paste Giandujot became a hit in post-war Italy.

Make Mine Music is a 1946 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 15 August 1946.

The International Military Tribunal read its judgment in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice: nineteen of the twenty-two defendants were convicted, twelve were sentenced to death and three were acquitted. It was the first time the leaders of a state were tried by an international court for waging aggressive war and for crimes against humanity.

On 12 March 1947 Enzo Ferrari's 125 S, the first car to carry the Ferrari badge, was fired up and driven out of the factory gates in Maranello, powered by a Colombo-designed 1.5-litre V12.

Fun and Fancy Free, formerly known as Fun & Fancy Free, is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy anthology film produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released, by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 27 September 1947.

Captain Chuck Yeager, drop-launched from a B-29 over the Mojave Desert, took X-1 #46-062 "Glamorous Glennis" to Mach 1.06 – the first piloted aeroplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. It was XS-1 flight number 50.

Melody Time is a 1948 American musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney. It reached US theaters on 27 May 1948.

Claude Shannon's paper appears in the Bell System Technical Journal, defining the bit, channel capacity and entropy, and founding information theory. Every modem, codec and error-correcting code since rests on it.

Bar Brahma opened in 1948 at the corner of São João and Ipiranga, the crossing Caetano Veloso later sang about, and became the bar where São Paulo's journalists, politicians and musicians drank in the same room. It closed once, reopened under another name, failed, and came back as Bar Brahma again.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 5 October 1949.

Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 4 March 1950.

Jack Durant opens his steakhouse on North Central Avenue in Phoenix; three-quarters of a century later its red flocked wallpaper and leather horseshoe booths are still the draw.

Peter Canlis opened his restaurant in 1950 on the slope above Lake Union, in a post-and-beam pavilion of glass and stone that became a landmark of north-west modernism, and it has stayed in the family. Its kimono-clad service and copper-fired charcoal grill were both unusual for an American dining room of the period.

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 14 September 1951.

BOAC’s G-ALYP took off from London for Johannesburg with fare-paying passengers, the first scheduled jetliner service in the world. Comet flights were about twice as fast as advanced piston airliners and cut London–Johannesburg to 21 hours 20 minutes.

On 17 January 1953, opening day of GM's Motorama at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, Chevrolet showed the Corvette prototype, the two-seat fibreglass roadster that became America's sports car.

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It reached US theaters on 5 February 1953.

Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.

On 21 January 1954 Mamie Eisenhower christened USS Nautilus (SSN-571) at the Electric Boat yard in Groton, Connecticut, the first nuclear-powered submarine, built by General Dynamics.

The first Tokyo Motor Show, then called the All-Japan Motor Show, ran 20-29 April 1954 in Hibiya Park with 267 vehicles, only 17 of them passenger cars, and 547,000 visitors.

A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.

France's SNCF pushed two modified electric locomotives to a then-world rail speed record of 331 km/h (206 mph) on a test track near Facture on March 28-29, 1955. An Infrastructural Game Changer cites the run as the moment fast trains overtook cars and planes.

At Ann Arbor, Thomas Francis Jr announced the results of the largest medical field trial ever run - 1.8 million children - and pronounced Jonas Salk's polio vaccine safe, effective and potent. Church bells rang across the United States; within two years American cases had fallen by almost 90 per cent.

On 15 April 1955 Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's franchise restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, the ninth McDonald's overall, a date the present McDonald's Corporation credits as its founding.

Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated musical romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. It reached US theaters on 22 June 1955.

Walt Disney's $17 million theme park, built on former orange groves in Anaheim after a chaotic construction rush, opened to press and invited guests as Disneyland.

The Citroën DS 19 was introduced at the Paris Motor Show on 6 October 1955; 743 orders came in the first 15 minutes, 12,000 on the first day and 80,000 deposits over the ten-day show.

On 17 January 1956 Ford sold 10.2 million shares at US$64.50 in an offering run by Goldman Sachs, with the Ford Foundation as the only seller, ending 53 years as a privately held company.

On 26 July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company in a broadcast from Alexandria, while Egyptian officials took over its offices. Britain and France were outraged, setting up the Suez Crisis.

Israeli forces attacked across the Sinai Peninsula on 29 October 1956 as part of a secret plan with Britain and France to retake the Suez Canal. British and French landings followed within days, then a UN-backed ceasefire and withdrawal under US pressure.

On 12 September 1958 Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby successfully tested the first working integrated circuit, a phase-shift oscillator on a sliver of germanium with its components linked by wires.

Yang Bing-yi founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958, first as a cooking-oil retailer and then as a dumpling house when the oil business failed. Its xiaolongbao, pleated to a standard count of folds, turned a single shop on Xinyi Road into a chain across Asia and the United States.

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. It reached US theaters on 29 January 1959.

The first Grammy Awards were held on 4 May 1959 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with a simultaneous event in New York; Domenico Modugno's "Volare" won Record and Song of the Year and Henry Mancini's The Music From Peter Gunn won Album of the Year.

H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

The thin arch Malpasset Dam on the Reyran River collapsed on the night of 2 December 1959 after weeks of rain, flooding Fréjus on the French Riviera and killing 423 people.

Harry Barberian opened his steak house on Elm Street in 1959, in a row of Victorian houses behind Yonge Street, and it has outlasted most of what grew up around it - a dark room of oil paintings and charcoal-grilled beef with one of the deepest wine cellars in Canada dug out beneath it.

A magnitude 9.5 megathrust rupture off southern Chile shook for ten minutes — the strongest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded. Its tsunami crossed the Pacific and struck Hilo, Hawaii, with waves 10.7 m high.

In 1961 General Motors installed the Unimate, the world's first industrial robot, at its New Jersey factory to lift and stack hot die-cast metal parts. Industry 4.0 opens its history of factory automation with this machine.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 25 January 1961.

Jaguar revealed the E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show on 15 March 1961; a coupe driven flat out from Coventry and a roadster rushed overnight the next day helped it take more than 500 orders at a show where Jaguar had planned only 250 cars.

On 1 May 1962 the Dayton Company opened the first Target discount store, a 68,800-square-foot, one-floor store at 1515 County Road B in Roseville, Minnesota.

Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.