Apr 03 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners", premieres in Oxford

Apr 02 First Navy use of jet aircraft as a bomber, launched from a carrier, USS Princeton.

Apr 02 Simon Barere pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall

Apr 05 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for allegedly giving American atomic secrets to the USSR

Apr 11 Pres Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur

Apr 08 First of 4 detonations, Operation Greenhouse nuclear test

Apr 07 Ben Hogan wins Masters golf tournament

Apr 19 Shigeki Tanaka, survivor of Hiroshima A-bomb, wins Boston Marathon

Apr 21 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 24 Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; suffer 10 dead, 23 wounded.

Nov 01 The first atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM

Nov 06 Soviet aircraft shoot at Neptune Patrol bomber (VP-6) on weather reconnaissance mission near Siberia. U.S. aircraft fails to return.

Nov 29 First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada

Nov 12 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL

Nov 10 The first long distance telephone call without operator assistance

Nov 25 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL

Nov 01 Award of Republic of South Korea Presidential Citation to 77 Squadron, RAAF

Nov 27 The First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM

Nov 10 Direct long-distance dialing between the east and west coasts of the U.S. begins today with a call between the mayors of Englewood, NJ and Alameda, CA.

Nov 23 David Rappaport actorwas born L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries

Nov 07 Constitution of Jordan passed

Nov 23 David Rappaport actorwas born : L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries

Sep 02 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron 161, equipped with HRS-1s, arrived Pusan, Korea

Sep 11 Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours,19 minutes

Sep 01 US, Australia &New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty

Sep 16 Betsy Rawls wins the US Women's Open Golf title

Sep 03 The soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS-TV.

Sep 08 Forty-nine countries sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco.

Sep 03 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS

Sep 04 The first transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman

Sep 20 First North Pole jet crossing

Sep 29 First color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)

Sep 04 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network

Sep 29 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter

Jun 01 S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes

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