Events
- Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a local newspaper reporter.
- Jean-Paul Sartre is drafted into the French Army.
- Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story appears in Astounding Magazine.
- Captain Marvel makes his first appearance, in Whiz Comics #2 (cover date February 1940).
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgement.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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