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  • Harry Truman

    . Roosevelt. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively
  • south pacific

    prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7.
  • north korea south korea

    declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25
  • the king and i

    opens musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.
  • Santayana goodbye

    George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.
  • Joseph Stalin

    yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union
  • Arturo Toscanini

    at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on national radio.
  • disneyland

    Disneyland opens on July 17 as Walt Disney's first theme park
  • Nikita Khrushchev

    makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality