Truman calls for $40 million of aid for Greece and Turkey before a join session of Congress.
Hungarian engineer in England invents holography.
The transistor is invented (will replace vacuum tubes).
The zoom lens covers World Series baseball championship for television.
1949:
The Soviet Union successfully detonates an atomic bomb.
Mao Tse-Tung and Communist forces take control of China, ousting the Nationalist government.
Network television begins in U.S.
1950:
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