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World Statistics Population: 2.554 billion (!not right!) population by decade more world statistics… World Events NATO establshed when North Atlantic Treaty is signed by 12 nations (April 4). German Federal Republic (West Germany) established (Sept. 21). Truman discloses Soviet Union has set off atomic explosion (Sept. 23).Background: The Cold War Communist People’s Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong (Oct. 1). South Africa institutionalizes apartheid. More History…
US Statistics Population: 149,188,130 Life expectancy: 68.0 years Homicide Rate (per 1,000): 5.4 President: Harry S Truman Vice President: Alben W. Barkley more US statistics… US Events President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20). President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20). President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20). More History…
Economics US GDP (1998 dollars): $267.8 billion Federal spending: $38.84 billion Federal debt: $252.6 billion Dow Jones High/Low: 200/161 Consumer Price Index: 23.8 Unemployment: 3.8% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03 More Economics…
Sports Super BowlGreen Bay d. Cincinnatti (35-1) World SeriesNY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1) NBA ChampionshipMinneapolis Lakers d. Washington Capitols (4-2) NHL ChampionshipToronto d. Detroit (4-0) WimbledonWomen: Louise Brough d. M. duPont(10-8 16 10-8)Men: Ted Schroeder d. J. Drobny (36 60 63 46 64) Kentucky Derby ChampionPonder NCAA Basketball ChampionshipKentucky d. Oklahoma A&M (46-36)The year in college basketball NCAA Football Champions:Notre Dame (10-0-0)The year in college football
Entertainment Awards Puliter PrizesFiction: Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens Music: Louisiana Story music, Virgil Thomson Drama: Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller Academy Award, Best Picture: All the King's Men1949 Oscars Nobel PrizesLiterature: William Faulkner (US)Peace: Lord John Boyd Orr (Scotland) 1949 Emmy Awards 1949 Tony Awards Miss America: Jacque Mercer (AZ) Entertainment Books George Orwell, 1984; Eudora Welty, Golden Apples; Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky; Shirley Jackson, The Lottery; Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember; Reinhold Niebuhr, Faith and History; Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living MoviesAll the King's Men, Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Third Man Music "Some Enchanted Evening"; "Ghost Riders in the Sky"; "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"; Kiss Me Kate soundtrack; Samuel Barber, Piano Sonata; Ernest Bloch, Scherzo Fantasque; Vaughn Monroe, Vaughn Monroe Sings TheaterDeath of a Salesman, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Events Cable television brings better reception to rural areas where the conventional television signal is weak. These Are My Children, a live, 15-minute show, premieres on NBC. It is the first continuing daytime drama. Nobel Prizes Chemistry: William Francis Giauque (US), for research in thermodynamics, especially effects of low temperature Physics: Hideki Yukawa (Japan), for mathematical prediction, in 1935, of the meson Physiology & medicine: Walter Rudolf Hess (Switzerland), for research on brain control of body; and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (Portugal), for development of brain operation Year in Science First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2). First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2). Deaths James ForrestalBill "Bojangles" RobinsonRichard Strauss Current Features | Spotlight Archive | Daily IQ
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- NATO establshed when North Atlantic Treaty is signed by 12 nations (April 4). German Federal Republic (West Germany) established (Sept. 21). Truman discloses Soviet Union has set off atomic explosion (Sept. 23).Background: The Cold War Communist People’s Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong (Oct. 1). South Africa institutionalizes apartheid.
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World Statistics
Population: 2.554 billion (!not right!)
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US Events
- President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20). President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20). President Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world’s less developed areas (Jan. 20).
US Statistics
Population: 149,188,130
Life expectancy: 68.0 years
Homicide Rate (per 1,000): 5.4
President: Harry S Truman
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley
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Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $267.8 billion
Federal spending: $38.84 billion
Federal debt: $252.6 billion
Dow Jones High/Low: 200/161
Consumer Price Index: 23.8
Unemployment: 3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
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Sports
Super BowlGreen Bay d. Cincinnatti (35-1)
World SeriesNY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1)
NBA ChampionshipMinneapolis Lakers d. Washington Capitols (4-2)
NHL ChampionshipToronto d. Detroit (4-0)
WimbledonWomen: Louise Brough d. M. duPont(10-8 16 10-8)Men: Ted Schroeder d. J. Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
Kentucky Derby ChampionPonder
NCAA Basketball ChampionshipKentucky d. Oklahoma A&M (46-36)The year in college basketball
NCAA Football Champions:Notre Dame (10-0-0)The year in college football
Entertainment
Books George Orwell, 1984; Eudora Welty, Golden Apples; Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky; Shirley Jackson, The Lottery; Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember; Reinhold Niebuhr, Faith and History; Norman Vincent Peale, A Guide to Confident Living
Entertainment Awards
Puliter PrizesFiction: Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens Music: Louisiana Story music, Virgil Thomson Drama: Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Academy Award, Best Picture: All the King’s Men1949 Oscars
Nobel PrizesLiterature: William Faulkner (US)Peace: Lord John Boyd Orr (Scotland)
1949 Emmy Awards
1949 Tony Awards
Miss America: Jacque Mercer (AZ)
MoviesAll the King’s Men, Twelve O’Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Third Man
Music “Some Enchanted Evening”; “Ghost Riders in the Sky”; “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”; “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”; Kiss Me Kate soundtrack; Samuel Barber, Piano Sonata; Ernest Bloch, Scherzo Fantasque; Vaughn Monroe, Vaughn Monroe Sings
TheaterDeath of a Salesman, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Events
Nobel Prizes Chemistry: William Francis Giauque (US), for research in thermodynamics, especially effects of low temperature Physics: Hideki Yukawa (Japan), for mathematical prediction, in 1935, of the meson Physiology & medicine: Walter Rudolf Hess (Switzerland), for research on brain control of body; and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (Portugal), for development of brain operation Year in Science First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2). First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2).
Deaths James ForrestalBill “Bojangles” RobinsonRichard Strauss
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Year in Science
- First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2). First round-the-world nonstop flight. Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world nonstop from Ft. Worth, returning to same point: 23,452 mi. in 94 hr., 1 min., with four aerial refuelings enroute (Feb. 27–March 2).
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry: William Francis Giauque (US), for research in thermodynamics, especially effects of low temperature
Physics: Hideki Yukawa (Japan), for mathematical prediction, in 1935, of the meson
Physiology & medicine: Walter Rudolf Hess (Switzerland), for research on brain control of body; and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (Portugal), for development of brain operation
Deaths
- James ForrestalBill “Bojangles” RobinsonRichard Strauss
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- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
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