Mar 08 Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb

Mar 19 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

Mar 07 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in London won by Karol Kennedy &Peter Kennedy (USA)

Mar 23 22nd Academy Awards "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win

Mar 24 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman

Mar 27 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China

Mar 01 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)

Mar 08 The first woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)

Mar 23 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government

Mar 12 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III

Mar 14 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

Mar 17 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns

Mar 15 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"

Mar 06 Silly Putty invented still here today

Mar 09 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY

Mar 13 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

Mar 07 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova (Czechoslovakia)

Mar 19 City College of New York defeats Bradley to win the NIT

Mar 30 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ

Mar 01 USSR issues golden rubles

Mar 23 22nd Academy Awards: "All King's Men", Broderick Crawford & Olivia de Havilland win

Mar 23 UN World Meteorological Organization established

Mar 24 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

Mar 01 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa

Mar 07 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA); this is his 3rd consecutive win

Mar 09 Edgar Rice Burroughs the US novelist, author of the 'Tarzan' books, dies

Mar 20 The birth of William Hurt, American film actor

Mar 17 Element 98 (Californium) announced

Aug 07 Cabinet decides to recruit and create a special Canadian armed force of 5,000 men for service with United Nations in Korea.

Aug 23 West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation

Aug 29 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52

Aug 17 Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands

Aug 31 Contingent of 80 men from First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, leaves for the Korean War.

Aug 01 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes king

Aug 15 8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India

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