Aug 19 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)

Aug 25 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

Aug 25 US President Harry Truman orders the Army to take over the railroads to stop a possible strike.

Aug 25 Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

Aug 27 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist

Aug 24 Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel

Aug 01 Territory of Guam created

Aug 31 HMAS Sydney and Tobruk sail for Korea

Aug 03 Elements of Marine Corps Observation Squadron, VMO-6, equipped with HO3S helicopters and OY observation planes, began operations in Korea

Sep 01 West Berlin granted a constitution

Sep 27 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis

Sep 26 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul

Sep 21 The birth of Bill Murray, US comedy film actor; 'Ghostbusters'

Sep 26 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England

Sep 28 3 RAR arrives in Korea

Sep 11 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence

Sep 11 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio

Sep 13 Sara Allgood actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56

Sep 15 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south

Sep 11 First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

Sep 24 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel

Sep 30 First congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris

Sep 04 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna

Sep 04 The first helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines (Korea)

Sep 22 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general

Sep 09 The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune

Feb 07 Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Feb 11 "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1

Feb 12 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

Feb 24 Labour wins British parliamentary election

Feb 16 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS

Feb 01 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes

Feb 12 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees

Feb 15 The Canadian government lifts the last wartime price controls on goods; brought in during World War II

Feb 09 Senator Joseph McCarthy says the US State Department is infested with communists

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