Feb 15 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

Feb 10 The Temiscouata Railway is entrusted to Canadian National. This line, which was opened throughout on October 1, 1891, ran from Rivière du Loup to Edmundston and from Edmundston to Connors.

Feb 02 First broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV

Feb 14 USSR and China sign peace treaty.

Feb 14 USSR & China sign peace treaty

Feb 09 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists

Feb 03 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges

Feb 27 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China

Feb 14 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg

Feb 12 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.

Feb 21 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting

Feb 01 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland

Apr 27 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races

Apr 23 Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 23 The first major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)

Apr 08 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

Apr 20 R C Cameron discovers asteroid #1575 Winifred

Apr 26 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run

Apr 10 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1760 Sandra

Apr 18 Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th

Apr 04 Christine Lahti born.

Apr 19 19-year-old Ham Young became the youngest Boston Marathon winner

Apr 04 Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES

Apr 01 Charles R Drew surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

Apr 09 Bob Hope's first TV appearance

Apr 30 Construction starts on $95 million Interprovincial Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to the Ontario Lakehead.

Apr 08 Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR

Apr 05 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins

Apr 18 First transatlantic jet passenger trip

Nov 01 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House

Nov 10 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected President of Guatemala

Nov 21 A Canadian Troop Train carrying 300 soldiers on their way to Korea cllides head-on with a freight train near Canoe River B.C. 21 die

Nov 22 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY

Nov 26 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River

Nov 22 Greg The Bull' Luzinzki (baseball Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox)

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