Jan 02 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal

Jan 01 Britain nationalizes its coal industry

Jan 18 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400

Jan 02 A new specification for aircraft color was issued providing for the use of glossy sea blue on all shipboard and water based aircraft and all helicopters

Jan 07 Australia vs England at MCG drawn in 6 days, first cricket draw in Australia since 1882

Jan 17 Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die

Jan 20 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

Jan 01 Britain nationalizes its coal industry

Jan 08 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game

Jan 10 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard

Jan 03 William Dawson becomes first black to head congressional committee

Jan 07 Australia vs England at MCG drawn in 6 days, first cricket draw in Australia since 1882

Jan 01 Benelux agress to work related issues

Jan 10 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel

Jan 22 Hollywood station KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins broadcasting.

Jan 25 Mobster Al Capone dies at age 48.

Jan 19 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392

Jan 03 Congressional proceedings are televised for the first time as viewers in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. witness opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.

Jan 06 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs England in MCG Test

Jan 08 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State

Feb 03 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket

Feb 07 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine

Feb 18 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA

Feb 21 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champion

Feb 20 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA

Feb 01 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists

Feb 21 First broadcast of first US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"

Feb 01 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established

Feb 13 Vern 'Dry Hole' Hunter strikes oil near Leduc, sparking a new Alberta oil boom

Feb 21 Inventor Edwin Land demonstrates the Polaroid Land camera, which self-develops a black-and-white photo in 60 seconds.

Feb 20 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India

Feb 12 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands

Feb 06 Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket

Feb 10 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia

Feb 27 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized

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