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The United States recalls all consular officialsfrom China after the seizure of the American consul general in Peking
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Brink's robbery in Boston; almost $3 million stolen
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Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb
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On Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected president of what he still calls the Republic of China
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The Soviet Union and People's Republic of China sign a treaty of mutual defense.
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North Korea's Kim Il Sung has spent almost all of April in the Soviet Union.
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The babyboom starts every one starts having children
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First kidney transplant
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Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invade South Korea
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Assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists
