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Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.
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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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Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
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Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union
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"Rock Around the Clock" is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.
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Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.
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Ronald Reagan: President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; first attempted in 1976 to run for president.
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Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.
