Saturday, January 25, 2014

DAY 198 - COUNTING DOWN TO THE 50TH (Wednesday, 1/22/2014)

Good Morning, Class of  '64!
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(Snow on the ground and cold, cold, cold!)
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Our growing up years spanned three decades, the 40s, 50s, and 60s. We were postwar (WWII) babies, being born at the tail end of the 1940s. Our memories of the late forties might be few, since we were born or moved to our 1st, 2nd or 3rd birthdays. 
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1946

EVENTS

 
http://www.babyboomers.com/1946/
http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1946 
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 Jan 1st - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
Jan 25th - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
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Feb 14th - Bank of England nationalized
Feb 26th - 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
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Mar 2nd - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
Mar 5th - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri)
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/winstonchurchillsinewsofpeace.htm
Mar 21st - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) 
Mar 22nd - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
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Apr 1st - Weight Watchers forms
 Apr 18th - Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals
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 May 2nd - The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
 May 3rd - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
May 9th - 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
 May 11th - 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
May 16th - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
May 26th - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
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 Jun 3rd - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
Jun 6th - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
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 Jul 7th - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
 Jul 14th - Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
Jul 14th - Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
Jul 16th - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
 Jul 24th - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
 Jul 25th - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.  
Jul 26th - President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
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 Aug 7th - 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
 Aug 17th - George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom
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 Sep 11th - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
 Sep 20th - Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'
Sep 30th - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg
 Sep 30th - Von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
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 Oct 1st - 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
 Oct 9th - 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
 Oct 16th - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
 Oct 23rd - UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
 Oct 25th - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
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 Nov 5th - John F Kennedy (D, Mass) elected to House of Representatives
Nov 12th - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released Nov 12th - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. 
Nov 13th - 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
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 Dec 5th - Pres Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
 Dec 11th - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
 Dec 12th - Tide detergent introduced
Dec 19th - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
 Dec 23rd - U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
Dec 31st - Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

 BOOKS

 
 

AUTOMOBILES

 
 

MOVIES

 
QUOTES FROM IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Clarence: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? 
 Pa Bailey: All you can take with you is that which you've given away. 

POP MUSIC 

List of Billboard number-one singles of 1946
LIST OF GREATEST HITS OF 1946
Top Songs of 1946
http://www.musicvf.com/1946.year
 Popular Songs 1946
http://www.popularsong.org/1946.html 
Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Freddy Martin's Bumble Boogie 
 
(Liberace performing Bumble Boogie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTJ2ykad-k
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COUNTRY MUSIC

1946 IN COUNTRY MUSIC
http://www.dullist.com/2011/06/what-are-top-country-songs-of-1946.html 

Elton Britt - Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) (1946)
 Sons of the Pioneers Radio Program No 3
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MARILYN MONROE 
 Family Circle (April 26, 1946)
Marilyn's first U.S. magazine cover. 

 ADVERTISING

 
 

FASHION


 
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School-lunch recipe from 1946, which the exhibit states was the first year of the nationwide school lunch program.
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2011/06/04/school-lunch-1946/ 
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TRIVIA 

http://www.pop-culture.us/Annual/1946.html 
1946 TRIVIA QUIZ 
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http://www.braingle.com/trivia/26861/year-in-review-1946.html 
DO YOU REMEMBER 1946?
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http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz91611a7f3b0.html 
BEST MOVIE TRIVIA OF 1946
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https://www.moviemistakes.com/best1946/trivia 
MOVIE MISTAKES
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 http://pdxretro.com/2013/12/beach-boy-born-on-this-day-in-1946/ 
BEACH BOY - Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998)
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Walt Disney 1946 - All the Cats Join In 
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 Walt Disney 1946 - Casey at the Bat HQ
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 1946 - SATURDAY EVENING POST
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 Don't count the years...count the memories.
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