- HUAC investigations into Hollywood; Hollywood 10 blacklisted
- |USA ?| Taft-Hartley Act restricts rights of labor
unions
- "Flying saucers" reported in US
- Bayard Rustin, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Igal
Roodenko, and Joseph Felmet serve 30 days on a chain gang
- |U.S.| Over 1 million veterans enroll in colleges
under GI Bill of Rights
- Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Jackson Pollock starts action painting (Abstract Expressionism)
- Dior's ankle-length dresses protested
- Leon, brother of Barney Josephson, owner of Cafe Society, NYC,
subpoened by HUAC; Columnists Westbrook Pegler & Walter Winchell
attack Barney & club business drops; forced to close 1948
- Series of Chicago riots as whites left inner city to Negroes
[u.1957]
- Kerouac & Cassady make cross-country trips
[u.1950]
- Marshall Plan, US farms and industries gear up to feed Europe
[u.1951]
- B. F. Goodrich Co. introduces the first tubeless tire.
- James Michener's writing career starts with Tales of the South Pacific.
- |music ?| Charles Ives wins Pulitizer for Symphony No. 3.
- Dialectic of Enlightenment introduces public to Frankfurt School of thought.
- 3M introduces plastic-base magnetic audio tape, improving German technology.
- The zoom lens covers baseball's world series for TV.
- Roswell incident
- India becomes an independent dominion of the British Commonwealth, as does Pakistan.
- GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) is signed.
- The first of a series of short-lived consitutions in Nigeria are formed, giving
limited native participation in provincial legislatures.
- The National Security Act creates the CIA.
- Gheorghe Gheorghi-Dej is installed by Stalin in Romania;
- Avian leukosis virus first isolated.
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act passed; replaced
Insecticide Act of 1910.
- First U.S. case of scrapie diagnosed in sheep.
- The House Un-American Activities Committee begin their investigations of
communism in Hollywood.
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- Cambridge University begins to admits women as full students.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle
- Walter Morrison invents the Frisbee.
- A State of the Union address, by President Harry Truman, is televised.
- A record 97% of all AM stations in U.S. are affiliated with a network.
- Television network service expands with line from New York to Boston.
- Seven U.S. East Coast TV stations begin regular programming.
- World Series is telecast. Yankees win.
- Poet W.H. Auden wins Pulitzer Prize for Nones.
- The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
- Jean-Paul Sarte's play, No Exit, sees hell as other people.
- American television viewers watch commercials.
- On Broadway, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical, Brigadoon.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered in a cave.
- The start of television's longest running program, Meet the Press.
- Dennis Gabor, Hungarian engineer in England, invents holography.
- The transistor, invented at Bell Labs, will replace vacuum tubes.
- On Broadway, Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire.
- The zoom lens covers baseball's world series for TV.
- |film ?| Oscars: Gentleman's Agreement, Ronald Colman,
Loretta Young.
- FCC decrees national standard for television receivers.
- Howdy Doody starts a 13-year run on television.
- Artificial Intelligence concept by Alan Turing in "Intelligent Machinery" article
- AWA New Zealand Ltd established
- Magnetic drum by Dr Billing, Germany
- Photo-telegraph service between NZ, Australia, Britain & later USA.
- Hewlett Packard incorporated
- 'Bug' term applied to moth-induced error on Mark II by Hopper & others
- ACM Association for Computing Machinery
- |film ?| Miracle on 34th Street, The Farmer's Daughter,
The Egg and I.
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