Dec 26 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs. That same day, Los Angeles set a record high of 84ø F

Dec 04 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union

Dec 17 New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow

Dec 30 King Michael of Romania abdicates, allowing a communist republic to be formed

Dec 13 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic

Dec 08 Gregg Allman musician: keyboards, guitar, singer was born

Dec 26 British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia

Dec 03 Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire makes its Broadway debut.

Dec 08 Gregg Allman musician keyboards, guitar, singer was born

Dec 30 King Michael of Romania abdicates the throne, but makes it clear that he is forced out by Communists.

Dec 23 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs

Dec 01 Marine Helicopter Experimental Squadron, HMX-1, was established at MCAS Quantico,its mission was to develop techniques and tactics for the various uses of helicopters in amphibious operations.

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

Aug 14 Pakistan gains independence from Britain

Aug 23 The birth of Willy Russell, Playwright; 'Educating Rita' and Shirley Valentine'

Aug 25 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph

Aug 18 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300

Aug 04 Birthdate of the Medical Service Corps

Aug 15 India gains independence from Britain

Oct 24 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)

Oct 26 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India

Oct 01 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends

Oct 01 The first helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca

Oct 27 Groucho Marx hosts the radio premiere of You Bet Your Life, on ABC radio. (When the show later moved to TV, it jumped ship to NBC.)

Oct 24 The birth of Kevin Kline, American actor

Oct 05 The first Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman

Oct 27 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio

Oct 20 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

Oct 09 The first telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane

Oct 29 The birth of Richard Dreyfuss, American actor

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