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The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was…
The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st…
Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of…
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Comm
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional total
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of…
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly proclaimed (pictured) the establishment of the People's Republic…
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army
The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was independently developing nuclear weapons, after the US Atomic Energy A
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program
Arab–Israeli War: Israel Defense Forces officer Yitzhak Rabin signed an order to expel Palestinians from the towns of…
The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee (pictured) as its first president.
The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during…
Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab…
The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" (pictured) in its early morning…
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the So