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Red China: The Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People's Republic of China.
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Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like "It's Magic"; divorces her second husband.
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Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.
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The King and I, musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.
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Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggi
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Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer.
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Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion.
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Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.
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Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier.
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Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.
