May 21 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours

May 27 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so

May 16 The first animal breeding society forms (New Jersey)

May 17 The birth of Dennis Hopper, American film actor

May 15 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium

May 03 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain

May 03 Viewers of W2XBS-TV (now WCBS-TV) watched the first book review show

May 06 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)

May 04 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes first president of Eire

May 16 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six

May 26 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work

May 03 Concentration camp at Flossenbürg goes into use

May 17 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

May 16 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA)

May 10 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam

May 07 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

May 02 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"

May 12 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

May 02 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)

May 14 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3

May 28 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid

May 31 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's

Jan 02 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

Jan 11 Frances Moulton elected first woman president of a US national bank

Jan 03 The March of Dimes campaign to stomp out polio is organized

Jan 22 Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, debuts in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jan 17 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman

Jan 05 King Juan Carlos of Spain

Jan 19 GM began mass production of diesel engines

Jan 05 The birth of King Juan Carlos of Spain

Jan 02 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

Jan 06 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx

Jan 08 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs Queensland (1st innings)

Jan 02 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

Jan 06 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx

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