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ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert
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1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
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Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
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1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
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Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
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Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
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US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
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23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
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US president Harry Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
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- May 7th - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
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CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
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1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
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Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
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Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
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Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
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Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
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Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
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Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
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1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
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Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
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1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
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US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
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Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
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1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing
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1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
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1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
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- Nov 13th - False fingernails 1st sold
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Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
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1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
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US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
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The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
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TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
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1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
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"Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
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German FR joins NATO
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- Mar 5th - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
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Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
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First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
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Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
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Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
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German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
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650,000 US steel workers go on strike
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Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
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1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
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US give Poland credit of $95 million
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Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
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1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
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1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
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1st march against nuclear weopons (Aldermaston England)
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US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
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Israeli navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine
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$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
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NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
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1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
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12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
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Protest strike in Poznan Poland
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1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
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1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
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Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
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USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
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China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
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- Aug 6th - 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
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Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
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United States Navy SEALs established.
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US national debt above $300,000,000,000
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Cuban missile crisis ends after JFK and Khrushchev make a public and secret agreement
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Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
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Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
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Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
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200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
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Touch-tone telephone introduced