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Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them. -
Marilyn Monroe
[Marilyn Monroe](Link: http://www.biography.com/people/marilyn-monroe-9412123) 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. Later married Joe DiMaggio. -
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Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella an African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers receives the National League's Most Valuable Player award for the second time. -
"Rock Around the Clock"
[ "Rock Around the Clock"](Link: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bill-haley-and-the-comets-record-quotrock-around-the-clockquot)is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music. -
Brooklyn's got a winning team
[Brooklyn's got a winning team](: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/so-called-brooklyn-bums-win-their-first-world-series) The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time before their move to Los Angeles. -
Alabama
[Alabama](: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott) is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently. -
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row. -
California baseball
California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.
