Aug 14 The birth of Susan St. James, American film actress

Aug 01 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Aug 06 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court

Oct 16 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

Oct 09 The first electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50

Oct 01 Truculent Turtle lands at Columbus, Ohio, breaking world's record for distance without refueling with flight of 11,235 miles.

Oct 22 Corporal J R Sewell, 10th Australian Bomb Disposal Platoon, BCOF, is awarded the George Medal for his rescue of Japanese survivors after an explosion in a boat carrying high explosives

Oct 28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR

Oct 10 The birth of Chris Tarrant, British TV show creator (who wants to be a millionaire)

Oct 15 Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison

Oct 23 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (First NYC) (Flushing Meadows)

Jul 25 The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

Jul 01 Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown

Jul 17 Mikhailovich resistance leader, executed by Tito regime

Jul 02 Establishment of VX-3 to evaluate adaptability of helicopters to naval purposes.

Jul 10 Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days)

Jul 30 The first rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

Jul 21 In first U.S. test of adaptability of jet aircraft to shipboard operations, XFD-1 Phantom makes landings and takeoffs without catapults from Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Jul 01 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

Jul 05 Bikini swimsuit first demonstrated at a Paris fashion show

Jul 22 Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes)

Jul 22 90 people die when Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

Jul 04 The Philippine Islands granted independence by the United States

Jul 05 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show

Jul 25 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)

Jul 04 Philippines gains independence from US

Jul 15 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown

Jul 02 Anthony Overton publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81

Jul 07 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as first American saint

Mar 21 The birth of Timothy Dalton, English actor

Mar 14 Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying

Mar 12 The birth of Liza Minnelli, American actress

Mar 22 Jordan gains independence from British rule

Mar 05 British prime minister Winston Churchill delivers his "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MS.

Mar 09 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang

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