Jul 07 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Jul 31 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY

Jul 07 6 female reservists become first women sworn into regular US Navy

Jul 26 President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of the Armed Services.

Jul 26 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces

Jul 15 Pres Truman nominated for another term

Jul 05 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1618 Dawn

Jul 23 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President

Mar 27 Nikita Krushchev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union

Mar 22 The birth of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Cats'

Mar 12 -5ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March

Mar 05 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height

Mar 15 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine

Mar 09 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia

Mar 15 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs Western Australia

Mar 20 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win

Mar 19 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Mar 31 The birth of Al Gore, American senator and vice-president

Mar 18 France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels

Mar 11 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

Mar 28 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win

Mar 07 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death

Mar 05 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson

Mar 31 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe

Mar 18 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting

Mar 28 2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win

Mar 20 20th Academy Awards "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win

Mar 14 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco

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