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1940s or not?

Can you guess which of these events happened between January 1, 1940 and December 31, 1949?
Quiz by camus
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Last updated: February 24, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 24, 2019
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1. Mahatma Gandhi is killed.
1940s
not 1940s
2. World War II begins.
1940s
not 1940s
3. African America woman Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Alabama.
1940s
not 1940s
4. British king Edward VIII. abdicates to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson.
1940s
not 1940s
5. "Citizen Kane" is released.
1940s
not 1940s
6. The State of Israel is founded.
1940s
not 1940s
7. Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
1940s
not 1940s
8. The bikini is introduced.
1940s
not 1940s
9. The Olympics take place in Berlin.
1940s
not 1940s
10. The United Nations are established.
1940s
not 1940s
11. The Manhattan Project is active.
1940s
not 1940s
12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk becomes the first president of the Turkish republic.
1940s
not 1940s
13. China annexes Tibet.
1940s
not 1940s
14. George Orwell publishes "1984".
1940s
not 1940s
15. Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash.
1940s
not 1940s
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Level 78
Sep 20, 2019
Interesting that Rosa Parks is at the top. At some other quizzes users commented that they don't even know her. Didn't expect Gandhi to be lower than 50% either, I wonder which decade people would put his death in.
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Level 78
Sep 20, 2019
Fun fact: Orwell wrote his book in 1948 and switched the last numbers to come up with its title, suggesting a vague future but also, in a way, his own contemporary time.