- Muslims + riot in India.
- Prime minister of Iran, Ahmad Qavan signs an agreement with Russia ?
allowing the Russians to develop the oil fields. The treaty is never used.
- Russian troops leave Iran, and the Azerbaijan and Krurdistan republics collapse,
letting Iran gain control of them again.
- First meeting of United Nations General Assembly in London.
- Paramahamsa Yogananda publishes the book Autobiography of a Yogi
- |China ?+| Civil war between the Communists
and the Nationalists.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered.
- Chinese and British withdraw from Vietnam, returning it to the French. The French
re-establish their own control over parts of Vietnam, refusing to recognize Ho Chi Minh's
government.
- The last French troups are evacuated from Lebanon.
- Oil is first exported from Kuwait.
- Jukeboxes go into mass production.
- In St. Louis, automobile ? radio telephones connect to telephone network.
- Bulgaria declared a People's Republic after a referrendum
- The 20mm Vulcan gatling gun is invented
- Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy.
- Robert Penn Warren's novel about Huey Long, All the King's Men.
- 'Bit' term coined by John Tukey
- BINAC by Eckert and Mauchly - real-time computer (BINary Automatic Computer)
- Flow diagrams described & term coined by Hermann H. Goldstine and John von Neumann
[l.flow charts].
- Williams storage cathode ray tube patented
- "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument"
by Arthur Burks, Herman Goldstine & John von Neumann
- Electronic Control Company by Eckert & Mauchly - first US computer manufacturer
- John Hersey's Hiroshima, records accounts by survivors.
- Italian cinema counters Hollywood glitz with neo-realism in Open City.
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- First of 23 nuclear explosions, Bikini atoll
[u.1958]
- first year of the Baby Boom (46-64)Postwar birth rise
[u.1964]
- Start of the boom in sales of television sets
- Xerography process invented
- ENIAC electronic brain built at Pennsylvania University, heralding the the modern elctronic computer.
- Arthur Koestler: Darkness at Noon
- Buckminster Fuller designs Dymaxion House
- Pacifica Foundation founded
- Kerouac and Ginsberg meet Neal Cassady in New York City
- Pete Seeger moves to NY after getting out of the military, starts "People's Songs"
- Josh White playing at Cafe Society Downtown (Sheridan Square, Greenwich Village) and Leadbblly around NY also
- Lynchings in the south approach 1918 levels as Negro G.I.s return, talk of getting the rights they fought for
- Greek civil war [u.1949]
- Founding of Bantam Books.
- U.S. Army Signal Corps reports bouncing radar signal off moon, getting echo.
- Westinghouse "Stratovision" on airplane bounces TV signal 250 miles.
- |television ?| RCA, NBC demonstrate rival color television systems.
- Louis-Conn heavyweight title fight is telecast to 100,000 viewers.
- |radio ?+| U.S. has 1,000 licensed AM radio stations.
- After WW II freeze, U.S. radio manufacturers turn out 15 million sets this year.
- The Photon, the first practical phototypesetting machine.
- Soap operas enter television with Faraway Hill.
- On Broadway, Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun.
- Carson McCullers' novel, The Member of the Wedding, a girl's coming of age.
- |film ?| Oscars: The Best Years of Our Lives, Frederic March, Olivia De Haviland.
- |Film| It's a Wonderful Life, The Yearling, The Razor's Edge.
- |France ?|Film| The debut of the Cannes Film Festival.
- The New York City Ballet starts to dance.
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