January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China .
January 11 - Huk guerilla[?] attack the town of Hermosa[?] in Bataan , Philippines
January 12 - Huk guerilla[?] attack the town of Tuyn[?] , kill two and and torch the city of Staingnacan[?]
January 12 - British submarine Truculent collides with a Swedish ship in River Thames - 65 dead
January 17 - The Great Brinks Robbery[?] - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from a armored car in Boston, Massachusetts
January 21 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury
January 23 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel .
January 24 - Cold War : Klaus Fuchs confesses his wartime espionage at Los Alamos to British interrogators - formally charged February 2
January 26 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad[?] is sworn in as its first president .
January 29 - Lord Balfour[?] criticizes the fact that rationing is still in force in Britain
January 31 - President Harry S Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb
February 1 - Chiang Kai-shek re-elected as a president of the Republic of China
February 4 - Ingrid Bergman 's illegitimate child arouses ire in USA
February 9 - Red scare : In his speech to the Republican Women's Club[?] at the McClure Hotel[?] in Wheeling, West Virginia , Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists .
February 11 - Two Vietcong battalions attack a French base in Indochina
February 12 - Pro-communist riots in Paris
February 12 - European Broadcasting Union founded
February 13 - In USA army begins to deploy anti-aircraft cannons to protect nuclear stations and military targets
February 14 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty
February 19 - Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany to begin unification
February 22 - Albert Einstein warns that the nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction
February - British Labour Party forms a new government
March 1 - West South Baptist Church[?] in Bestridge, Nebraska[?] blows up
March 1 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secret[?] atomic bomb data.
March 3 - Poland states that it intends to exile all the Germans
March 8 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb .
March 12 - March 13 - In Belgium, the referendum about the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of the king, 42.3% against.
March 14 - Ship Cygnet hits mine off the Dutch coast.
March 17 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98 which they have named "californium ".
March 22 - Egypt demand that Britain remove all its troops in Suez Canal
April 15 - King Leopold III of Belgium announces that he is ready to abdicate in favor of his son Baudoin
April 24 - Jordania[?] formally annexes West Bank
April 27 - Apartheid : In South Africa , the Group Areas Act[?] is passed formally segregating races.
May 9 - Robert Schuman[?] presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration[?] ", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union .
May 29 - St. Roch[?] , first ship to circumnavigate North America arrives in Halifax Nova Scotia .
June 25 - beginning of Korean War . In the USA, people begun to hoard supplies in case of rationing and shortages.
July 4 - July 5 - Sicilian bandit leader Salvatore Giuliano[?] killed in a shootout with carabinieri
July 5 - Korean War : Task Force Smith[?] - First clash between American and North Korean forces.
July 5 - Zionism : The Knesset passes the Law of Return[?] which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel .
July 6 - East Germany agrees with Poland on the Oder-Neisse line - West Germany doesn't at this time
July 17 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg[?] arrested
July 19 - 15 SS-men sentenced to death in East Germany
July 20 - Tydings committee[?] report to US senate denounces Joe McCarthy - he begins a public attack on members of the committee standing for election in 1950
July 23 - Leopold III of Belgium returns to Brussels
July 25 - Walter Ulbricht elected the general secretary of the communist party of East Germany
July 31 - First battle between North Korean and US troops in Korean War
August 1 - Leopold III of Belgium formally abdicates for crown prince Baudoin
August 5 - Florence Chadwick[?] swims over English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes
August 6 - Riot in Brussels in monarchist demonstrations
August 7 - Flying fortress[?] crashes into a residential area in California
August 8 - Winston Churchill supports idea of pan-European army allied with Canada and USA
August 11 - Baudouin of Belgium sworn in as a king - communists protest and one right-wing extremist throws a smoke grenade.
August 15 - Earthquake in Assam , India - 20.000-30.000 believed dead
September 1 - Hungarian major general Laszlo Viragen[?] defects to Austria and applies for political asylum
September 8 - Coal mine[?] collapses in Scotland - 128 dead
September 12 - Communist riots in Berlin
September 15 - US and South Korean troops land in Inchon , then occupied by North Korea
September 19 - West Germany decides to fire all its communist officials
September 26 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations
October 5 - Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas
October 15 - In East Germany, communist win 99.7% of the vote
October 20 - Australia declares communist party illegal
November 2 - Oscar Collazzo[?] and Griselio Torresola[?] try to assassinate US president Truman[?]
November 4 - United Nation[?] ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain
November 18 - United Nations accepts the formation of Libyan national council
November 22 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
November 20 - T. S. Eliot speaks against television in the UK
November 22 - Shirley Temple announces her retirement from show business
November 30 - Truman threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea
December 25 - Scottish nationalists take the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey
December 28 - The Peak District becomes Great Britain's first National Park .
January 16 - Debbie Allen[?] , actress, dancer, choreographer
January 21 - Billy Ocean , musician
February 2 - Barbara Sukowa[?] , actress
February 3 - Morgan Fairchild[?] , actress
February 6 - Natalie Cole[?] , singer
February 10 - Mark Spitz , Olympic Games swimming gold medalist
February 11 - Earnest Jim Istook[?] , US-American politician
February 11 - Johanna E. Beerens[?] , actress
February 11 - Rochelle Fleming[?] , soul music vocalist
February 12 - Michael Ironside[?] , US actor
February 13 - Peter Gabriel , British musician
February 18 - John Hughes , director, producer, writer
February 22 - Julius Erving[?] , Basketball Hall of Famer
February 22 - Julie Walters , actress
February 22 - Miou-Miou[?] , actress
February 25 - Neil Jordan[?] , director, writer, producer
March 2 - Karen Carpenter[?] , singer and drummer (+ 1983 )
March 9 - Danny Sullivan[?] , automobile racer
March 11 - Bobby McFerrin[?] , US singer
March 11 - Jery Zucker[?] , producer, director, writer
March 13 - William H. Macy[?] , actor
March 18 - Brad Dourif[?] , actor
March 20 - William Hurt , US actor
March 26 - Teddy Pendergras[?] , singer
March 29 - Bud Cort[?] , actor
March 30 - Robbie Coltrane , British actor, comedian
April 4 - Christine Lahti[?] , US actress
April 22 - Peter Frampton , musician
May 7 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb[?] , boxer , actor
May 13 - Stevie Wonder , singer, pianist, bassist, drummer
May 16 - J. Georg Bednorz[?] , physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1987
May 17 - Janez Drnovsek , Slovene politician
May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh , composer & musician
May 18 - Thomas Gottschalk , show master
May 22 - Bernie Taupin , songwriter
July 17 - Michel Lotito[?] , Frenchman who eats everything
August 15 - Anne Elizabeth Alice Windsor , daughter of Queen Elizabeth II
September 28 - John Sayles director, screenwriter
October 31 - John Candy , US comedian and actor
December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux , US drummer and actor ("Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy )
December 13 - Tom Vilsack , Iowa Governor
April 1 - Charles R. Drew , physician
April 3 - Kurt Weill , composer
April 7 - Walter Huston , Academy Award winning actor
April 8 - Vaslav Nijinsky , Russian ballet dancer
July 5 - Salvatore Giuliano[?] , Sicilian bandit leader (shot by police)
September 11 - Jan Christian Smuts
September 21 - Arthur Milse[?] , British space physicist
October 23 - Al Jolson , US movie musician
October 29 - Gustaf V of Sweden[?]
November 2 - George Bernard Shaw , Irish-born playwright
December 5 - Shri Aurobindo , guru
December 27 - Max Beckmann , painter
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