Jan 20 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen

Jan 10 First Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premieres on CBS

Jan 12 The children's show Kukla, Fran and Ollie, a Chicago favorite on local TV, makes its NBC nationwide TV debut.

Feb 14 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses

Feb 27 Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President

Feb 11 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title

Feb 08 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison

Feb 12 Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.

Feb 14 First session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem

Feb 02 The first 45 RPM record released can Rock and Roll be far behind

Feb 12 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio

Feb 19 Mass arrests of communists in India

Feb 12 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem

Feb 24 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement

Feb 12 Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.

Feb 16 House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949

Feb 05 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago

Feb 24 V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km

Feb 26 USAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight

Feb 02 Golfing champion Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident

Feb 01 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm)

Feb 10 The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut.

Feb 04 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia

Feb 12 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances

Feb 01 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope first used

Apr 01 Newfoundland becomes the tenth province of Canada and the Newfoundland Railway becomes part of the Canadian National system. This narrow gauge system had been operated by the island government since 1923.

Apr 04 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)

Apr 07 The Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein musical classic of love and war," South Pacific", unfolded on a lush tropical island swarming with Seabees, nurses, natives and coconut trees on this night in 1949.

Apr 25 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1922 Zulu

Apr 04 The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 'NATO', formed in Washington USA

Apr 18 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth

Apr 04 Establishment of NATO

Apr 23 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF

Apr 03 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS

Apr 05 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham IL)

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