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Events relating to america
Saxophonist 'Bird' Parker forms his own quintet in New York, often to be heard at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem
Baseball-player Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in a major league team
US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York
The first transistor is produced in the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
US zoologist Alfred Charles Kinsey publishes some unexpected findings in his Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male
The British government advertises in Jamaica for people to come and work in Britain
The Cello Sonata by US composer Elliott Carter introduces 'metric modulation'
Norman Mailer has immediate succes with his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in the Pacific
US poet Theodore Roethke publishes The Lost Son, his second collection
Ezra Pound publishes Pisan Cantos, about his postwar imprisonment in an American detention centre near Pisa
US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation
In the title of a new book US mathematician Norbert Wiener popularizes a term that he has coined, Cybernetics
George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama
George Marshall, the US secretary of state, launches a plan to distribute aid to sixteen European countries
John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a film based on B. Traven's novel of 1927
A 200-inch telescope goes into service at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California
US lawyer Alger Hiss is denounced, controversially, as a Soviet spy
In their manifesto Refus global fifteen artists and authors attack the values of conservative Quebec
US psychologist B.F. Skinner trains laboratory rats to use their brains in his 'Skinnner box'
A nine-year civil war begins in Colombia, bringing eventually some 200,000 deaths
Louis St-Laurent succeeds Mackenzie King as Liberal leader and prime minister of Canada
US president Harry S. Truman wins election to the office in his own right
Newfoundland joins Canada as its tenth province, completing the Confederation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is set up by the USA and Canada, together with Britain and other European countries, for purposes of collective security
Annie Allen, by US author Gwendolyn Brooks, describes in narrative verse the life of a black girl in contemporary USA
