Mar 09 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill

Mar 24 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

Mar 25 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v New Zealand, Christchurch)

Mar 07 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

Mar 13 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win

Mar 25 Singer/songwriter/pianist Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) born this day.

Mar 24 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency

Mar 12 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

Mar 13 19th Academy Awards "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win

Mar 21 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur

Mar 13 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances

Mar 12 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns

Mar 25 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia

Mar 25 Coal mine explosion in Centralia IL, claims 111 lives

Mar 18 William Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, died on this day

Mar 11 Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.

Mar 19 Belgian government of Spaak, forms

Mar 15 John Lee appointed first black commissioned officer in US Navy

Mar 07 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC

Mar 09 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

Mar 01 International Monetary Fund began operations

Mar 29 National revolt against France in Madagascar begins

Mar 24 The birth of Alan Sugar, British business Tycoon (Amstrad)

Mar 06 XB-45, a US 4-engine jet bomber, makes first test flight, Muroc CA

Mar 21 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

Mar 16 Convair Liner, first US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested

Mar 20 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

Mar 07 Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt

Mar 19 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan

Aug 14 India granted independence within British Commonwealth

Aug 07 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef

Aug 20 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph

Aug 23 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's first public singing concert

Aug 15 India becomes independent, Islamic part becomes Pakistan

Aug 14 Pakistan created by the British

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