Jun 21 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's

Jun 24 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey

Jun 30 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)

Jun 08 John Rudder becomes first negro commissioned officer in US marines

Jun 10 Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell XS-1.

Jun 25 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 to reatain championship

Jun 03 The 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory

Jun 26 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin

Jun 20 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV

Jun 24 Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 months

Jun 18 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights

Jun 28 In Fukui, Japan a 7.3 quake resulted in 5,390 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

Jun 08 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV

Jun 03 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore

Jun 21 First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I

Jun 18 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time

Jun 16 Start of Malayan Emergency

Dec 09 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

Dec 15 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury

Dec 06 Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts debuted on CBS-TV. The show introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn, The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence and Al Martino.

Dec 19 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")

Dec 03 First US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

Dec 10 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dec 29 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit

Dec 03 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100

Dec 24 First US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass

Dec 28 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border

Dec 30 Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate opens on Broadway.

Dec 23 Former Japanese prime minister is executed along with six other top Japanese leaders for their war crimes during World War II

Dec 03 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)

Dec 24 Canada formally recognizes the state of Israel.

Aug 20 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin

Aug 04 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax

Aug 15 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)

Aug 23 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries

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