- Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated - Supreme Court ruled that religious training in public schools was unconstitutional - The Marshall Plan was enacted to aid Europe - Soviets blockaded Berlin; West began Berlin airlift - Israel was created - U.S. and European allies drafted a plan creating West Germany - Organization of American States was established - Chinese communists declared Republic of China - President Truman ordered racial equality in the armed services - Japanese Prime Minister Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes - Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of spying - Republic of South Korea was established - Truman upset Dewey in presidential election |
- I'm Looking Over a Four-leaf Clover (Art Moonie) - Manana (Peggy Lee) - Nature Boy (Nat Cole) - Love Somebody (Doris Day) - Buttons and Bows (Dinah Shore) - It's Magic (Doris Day) - Because (Perry Como) - Now is the Hour (Bing Crosby) - My Darling, My Darling (Doris Day) - My Happiness (Ella Fitzgerald) - Woody Woodpecker (Kaye Kyser) - A Tree in the Meadow (Margaret Whiting) |
- Porshe sports car - World Health Organization - The "big bang" theory - The bikini arrived on American beaches - Vitamin B-12 - Transistors - CBS Evening News - McDonald's Restaurant - Franklin 50 cent piece - LP (long-playing) record - Plastic Frisbee - Honda motorcycle |
- Cleveland Indians beat the Boston Red Sox in the first American League pennant playoff - Cleveland Indians won the World Series - Cleveland Indian Lou Boudreau was American League MVP - Cleveland Indian Lou Boudreau was named the best male athlete of the year - Philadelphia Eagles were NFL champs - Cleveland Browns were AAFC champs - University of Michigan was college football champ - Kentucky won the NCAA basketball title - Doak Walker of Southern Methodist won the Heisman Trophy - Pancho Gonzales won the men's U.S. Open tennis title - Margaret Osborne DuPont won the women's U.S. Open tennis title - Ben Hogan won the USGA Open - Claude Harmon won the Masters golf tournament - Babe Zaharias won the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament - "Citation" won horse racing's triple crown - U.S. was unofficial winner of first Olympic Games held since 1936 |
- Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour - Douglas Edwards and the News - Candid Camera - Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) - Texaco Star Theater (Milton Berle) - The Chesterfield Supper Club (Perry Como) - The Nature of Things - The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports - The Bigelow Show - Kukla, Fran, and Ollie |
- The Freedom Train carrying 100 America's greatest documents toured the nation - Alfred Kinsey's book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was published - Margaret Chase Smith, of Maine became the first woman elected to both houses of the U.S. Congress - Dwight Eisenhower rejected efforts by both parties to draft him as a presidential candidate - On the eve of the presidential election, the Roper, Gallup, and Crosley polls predicted victory for Republican presidential candidate Dewey |
- Hamlet - Johnny Belinda - The Red Shoes - The Snake Pit - The Treasure of Sierre Madre - I Remember Mama - Sorry, Wrong Number - Key Largo - The Naked City - Red River - The Three Musketeers - Red River - The Pirate - Easter Parade |
- Best Picture: Hamlet - Best Director: John Huston (The Treasure of Sierre Madre) - Best Actress: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) - Best Actor: Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) |
- The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas - The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer - Dinner at Antoine's, Frances Parkinson Keyes - The Bishop's Mantle, Agnes Sligh Turnbull - Tomorrow Will Be Better, Betty Smith - The Golden Hawk, Frank Yerby - Raintree County, Ross Lockridge, Jr. - Shannon's Way, A.J. Cronin - Pilgrim's Inn, Elizabeth Goudge - The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw |
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