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Events and Trends

  • World's first working programmable stunk computer
  • World_War_II (ends 1945)
  • The shoa
  • First nuclear_bomb
  • First cruise_missile, the V1_flying_bomb and the first ballistic_missile, the V-2_rocket
  • Beginning of the Cold_War
  • Independence for some former colonies
  • 1948_Arab-Israeli_War
  • Frank_Capra's ''It's_a_Wonderful_Life''
  • , cryptology
  • The NBA begins play, in 1947.
  • The Irish_Free_State becomes a Republic (1948).
  • Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins.
  • Indian Independence and Partition

    World Leaders

  • President Lin_Sen (Republic_of_China)
  • President Chiang_Kai-shek (Republic_of_China)
  • Adolf_Hitler (Germany)
  • Mohandas_Gandhi (India) († 1948)
  • Prime Minister Jawaharlal_Nehru (India)
  • Prime Minister David_Ben-Gurion (Israel)
  • King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
  • Prime Minister Benito_Mussolini (Italy)
  • Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
  • Pope_Pius_XII
  • Taoiseach Eamon_de_Valera (Éire)
  • Taoiseach John_A._Costello (Republic_of_Ireland)
  • Joseph_Stalin (Soviet_Union)
  • Prime Minister Winston_Churchill (United_Kingdom)
  • Prime Minister Clement_Attlee (United_Kingdom)
  • President Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt (United_States)
  • President Harry_S._Truman (United_States)
  • Governor Luis_Munoz_Marin (Commonwealth of Puerto_Rico) Sports Figures
  • Joe_Louis
  • Sugar_Ray_Robinson
  • Ted_Williams
  • Jackie_Robinson
  • Joe_DiMaggio
  • Sammy_Baugh
  • Steve_Van_Buren

    Entertainers

  • Abbott_and_Costello
  • Bette_Davis
  • Bing_Crosby
  • Bob_Hope
  • Cary_Grant
  • Clark_Gable
  • Frank_Sinatra
  • Humphrey_Bogart
  • Ingrid_Bergman
  • James_Cagney
  • Jimmy_Stewart
  • Katharine_Hepburn
  • Orson_Welles
  • Spencer_Tracy
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