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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s |
Years: | 1949 1950 1951 – 1952 – 1953 1954 1955 |
Events
- January 8 – West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
- January 24 – Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
- January 24 – Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
- Unknown date – Pakistan's first test match.
Births
- March 11 – Douglas Adams
- April 4 – Gary Moore, Irish musician (d. 2011)
- May 13 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
- July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor in TV series and movies
- July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor
- November 3 – Jim Cummings, American actor
- November 16 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer
Deaths
- January 18 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian
- February 6 – King George VI of the United Kingdom
- February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
- February 22 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland
- March 7 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
- March 22 – Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
- March 31 – Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)
- April 3 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish union activist
- April 21 – Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1947-1950
- May 6 – Maria Montessori Italian educator (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. 1870)
- May 8 – Walter Fox, American movie producer
- May 21 – John Garfield, actor
- June 17 – Krystyna Skarbek, SOE agent
- July 26 – Eva Perón, Argentine wife of Juan Perón
- September 29 – George Santayana, writer
- September 30 – Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician
- October 28 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia
- November 9 – Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
- November 18 – Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
- November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
- December 12 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist
- December 28 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)
Movies released
New books
- Adventures in Two Worlds – A.J. Cronin
- Arrow in the Blue – Arthur Koestler
- A Buyer's Market – Anthony Powell
- Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- La Formica Argentina – Italo Calvino
- Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
- Giant – Edna Ferber
- Go Tell it On The Mountain – James Baldwin
- The Gown of Glory – Agnes Sligh Turnbull
- Heaven and Earth – Carlo Coccioli
- The Hidden Flower – Pearl S. Buck
- The Houses in Between – Howard Spring
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- Island of Desire – Edith Templeton
- Judgment Night – C. L. Moore
- A Many-splendoured Thing – Han Suyin
- Martha Quest – Doris Lessing
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Power of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peale
- The Rolling Stones – Robert A. Heinlein
- The Saracen Blade – Frank Yerby
- The Silver Chalice – Thomas B. Costain
- The Small Miracle – Paul Gallico
- Steamboat Gothic – Frances Parkinson Keyes
- Vermeer – Lawrence Gowing
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C. S. Lewis
Hit Songs
- "All Of Me" – Johnnie Ray
- "Anytime" – Eddie Fisher
- "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" – Vera Lynn
- "Be My Life's Companion" – The Mills Brothers
- "Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" – Rosemary Clooney
- "Christmas Roses" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
- "Day Of Jubilo" – Guy Mitchell
- "Delicado" – Percy Faith & his Orchestra
- "The Glow-Worm" – The Mills Brothers
- "A Guy Is A Guy" – Doris Day
- "Half As Much" – Rosemary Clooney
- "Heart And Soul" – The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
- "Here In My Heart" – Al Martino
- "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" – Frankie Laine
- "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" – Karen Chandler
- "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" – Jimmy Boyd
- "I Went To Your Wedding" – Patti Page
- "I'll Walk Alone" – Don Cornell
- "I'm Confessin'" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
- "I'm Just A Poor Bachelor" – Frankie Laine
- "I'm Yours" – Eddie Fisher
- "Kiss Of Fire" – Georgia Gibbs
- "A Kiss To Build A Dream On" – Louis Armstrong
- "Lady Of Spain" – Eddie Fisher
- "Lover" – Peggy Lee
- "Maybe" – Perry Como & Eddie Fisher
- "My Favorite Song" – Georgia Gibbs
- "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" – Guy Mitchell
- "Please, Mr. Sun" – Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
- "Ramblin' Man" – Frankie Laine
- "Rock Of Gibraltar" – Frankie Laine
- "Settin' The Woods On Fire" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
- "A Sinner Am I" – Johnnie Ray
- "Slow Poke" – Arthur Godfrey
- "So Madly In Love" – Georgia Gibbs
- "Somewhere Along The Way" – Nat King Cole
- "Sugarbush" – Doris Day & Frankie Laine
- "Tell Me Why" – Eddie Fisher
- "Temptation" – Mario Lanza
- "Tenderly" – Rosemary Clooney
- "Tiger Rag" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
- "Till I Waltz Again With You" – Teresa Brewer
- "Tonight You Belong To Me" – Frankie Laine
- "Unforgettable" – Nat King Cole
- "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" – Johnnie Ray
- "Wheel Of Fortune" – Kay Starr
- "When I Fall In Love" – Doris Day
- "When You're In Love" – Frankie Laine
- "Why Don't You Believe Me" – Joni James
- "Winter Wonderland" – Perry Como
- "Wish You Were Here" – Eddie Fisher
- "You Belong to Me" – Jo Stafford
- "You'll Never Be Mine" – Guy Mitchell
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