- Columbia introduces the long-playing 33-1/3 rpm record,
The LP [Long Playing] record arrives on a viny disk with
25 minutes per side. old records delivers 4 minutes.
- World Council of Churches formed.
- The International Law Commission holds their first conference on the law of the sea.
- The Berlin Blockade is put into affect.
- House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC)
investigates Alger Hiss (of State Dept) case
- Month-long strike by soft coal miners
- |USA ?| injunction
prevents nationwide rail strike
- first escalator clause basing wage increases on cost-of-living inde in GM-UAW contract
- Truman signs Selective Service Act, creating US's first
peacetime draft, and universal military training (includes ROTC)
- US sends troops to Greece to support dictator
- General Somoza's military take-over of elected
Nicaraguan government (with US support?)
- Tito of Yugoslavia breaks away from USSR Communist Party
- |automobile ?| Porsche is founded.
- Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
- Casimir effect discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir
- From RCA, a 16-inch television tube.
- From RCA, the Ultrafax system can transmit one million words per minute.
- Theory developed for check-bits to detect errors in phone switching.
- Intruder in the Dust continues Faulkner's examination of Southern prejudices.
- Shannon and Weaver of Bell Labs propound information theory.
- Land's Polaroid camera prints pictures in a minute.
- Hollywood switches to nonflammable film.
- Public clamor for television begins; FCC freezes new licenses.
- Airplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states.
- EDSAC by Maurice V Wilkes, University of Cambridge - first full-scale electronic
stored-program computer (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer)
- SSEC electromechanical computer by IBM runs stored program
(Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator)
- Copying Products Limited established in New Zealand
- Manchester University Mark I prototype runs first fully electronic stored program by
Prof Tom Kilburn (takes 52 minutes)
- Composition (code generated algorithm) described by Haskell B. Curry.
- 604 electronic calculator, IBM
- Point-contact Transistor by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain
- |television ?| CBS and NBC begin nightly 15-minute
television newscasts.
- |film ?| Johnny Belinda, The Snake Pit, Red River.
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- Supreme Court knockdown of Texas white primary;
750,000 Negroes register to vote in 12 southern states
- Levitts begin construction of first mass-produced suburb:
Levittown, Long Island
- First McDonalds drive-in (San Bernardino, California)
- |music ?| Nat King Cole's record of eden ahbez's song "Nature Boy" is a big hit
- Mechanization Takes Command by Siegfried Giedion
- B.F. Skinner: Walden Two
- George Orwell writes 1984 (originally titled 1948)
- Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
- Ed Sullivan television show starts
- Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman & Ronnie Gilbert, singing
in the Almanac Singers since the early 1940s, start The Weavers
- sum Ginsberg has mystical vision of Blake's flower
- Malcolm Little first hears about the teachings of Elijah Muhammed while in prison.
- Lee Strasberg becomes Artistic Director of the Actors
Studio, starts giving classes in the Stanislavsky "method"
- |[L-]Ireland_20th&Ireland| General Election. Fianna Fail defeated.
- Cortisone found to relieve rheumatoid arthritis.
- Disc brakes are introduced by Chrysler.
- |television ?| The Ed Sullivan Show.
- Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
- B.F. Skinner's Walden Two discusses behaviorism.
- Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One, savages the funeral industry.
- Norman Mailer's novel of World War II, The Naked and the Dead.
- Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior of the Human Male delivers some shocks.
- Poet W.H. Auden's Pulitzer Prize winning The Age of Anxiety.
- The Tony Awards begin, with awards for the best in 1947 theater.
- |music ?| Leo Fender invents the electric guitar.
- Western Union manufactures 50,000 Deskfax machines for fax transmission.
- Founding of the Public Relations Society of America.
- Wilbur Schramm's Source-Message-Channel-Receiver commmunication model.
- Shannon and Weaver of Bell Labs propound information theory.
- Edwin Land's Polaroid camera prints pictures in a minute.
- The Bic ballpoint pen.
- Public clamor for television begins; FCC freezes new licenses.
- CBS raids NBC for radio, TV top talent.
- 35 mm professional movie film stock is now also made of safety film.
- Community Antenna Television, CATV, forerunner to cable TV.
- Airplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states.
- Alan Paton's novel of South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country.
- |film ?| Oscars: Hamlet, Laurence Olivier, Jane Wyman.
- Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the other Peanuts begin as Li'l Folks.
- Cole Porter's Shakespearan musical, Kiss Me Kate, on Broadway.
- European nations begin to set import quotas on foreign films.
- Artist Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World.
- WFIL-FM, owned by Philadelphia newspaper, transmits fax editions twice a day.
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