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linkHarry Truman is inaugurated as U.S. president
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linkSouth Pacific, the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7
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linkWalter Winchell is an aggressive radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column
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link, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech
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linkStudebaker goes bankrupt
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linkJoe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them
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linkRichard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate
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link Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours
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linkRed China as the Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War
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linkJohnnie Ray signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records
