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Battle of Midway ends
Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan. -
Wages and Prices
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities. -
First U.S. President in Foreign Country
Roosevelt becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime. -
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory. -
First Test of the Atomic Bomb
1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project. -
Atomic Energy
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives. -
Hollywood Sign
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywood land sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood. -
Hydrogen Bomb
Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb. -
Divide Korea
North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel.