Events
- 5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the FCC for the first time.
- 26 May: Fireside chat: On National Defense
- 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces in World War II, uses the airwaves of the BBC to make his 18th of June Appeal to the French people for resistance to the Nazi German occupation of France.
- 15 October: Seven staff are killed when an attempt to eject a delayed-action German bomb from Broadcasting House in London fails.
- 29 December: Fireside chat: On National Security
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“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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something that makes me feel at home.”
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“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)