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| | | The Family Moskat, about a Jewish family in Warsaw, is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer's books to be published in English | |
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| | | C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | |
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| | | Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova form the Festival Ballet, in time for next year's Festival of Britain | |
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| | | British author Doris Lessing publishes her first novel, The Grass is Singing | |
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| | | The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America | |
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| | | US sociologist David Riesman analyzes the American character in The Lonely Crowd | |
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| | | Chinese troops move into Tibet, meeting little resistance | |
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| | | Julius Rosenberg is arrested on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, and his wife Ethel is arrested a few weeks later | |
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| | | North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel to invade the southern half of the region | |
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| | | North Korean forces press far enough south to capture the South Korean capital of Seoul | |
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