The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. India and Pakistan gained independence from
Great Britain. The Hollywood “Blacklist”
was created by The House of Un-American Activities Committee. Prussia ceased to exist. Arabs and Jews rejected proposal to split
Palestine. Carbon dating was first used.
Microwaves were discovered. The transistor was invented. Chuck
Yeager broke the sound barrier. Thor
Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in the Kon
Tiki. Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Meet The Press”
debuted on NBC. John D. Rockefeller donated the land for the U.N. building. John Paul Sartre wrote Existentialism. Charles Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Symphony No. 3. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Tennessee
Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
premiered on Broadway. André Gide received the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for All The King’s Men. In 1947 we also read
Saul Bellow’s The Victim, Malcolm Lowry’s
Under The Volcano and Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann. We watched Out of the Past, Odd Man Out, Crossfire, Black Narcissus, Miracle on 34th Street, Gentleman’s Agreement, Brighton
Rock, Nightmare Alley, The Fugitive
and Body and Soul. We listened to “The Old Lamplighter” by Sammy Kaye, “I Love You For Sentimental
Reasons” by the Nat King Cole Trio,
“Open The Door, Richard” by Count Basie,
“Managua, Nicaragua” by Freddy Martin,
and “Heartache” by Ted Weems. Among those who died this year were Al Capone, Aleister Crowley, Bugsy
Siegel, Henry Ford, Max Planck, Willa Cather and Man O’ War. Taking their first gasps were: Iggy
Pop, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elton John, Mitt Romney, David Bowie, Stephen King, Hillary
Clinton, Carlos Santana, David Letterman, James Patterson, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, and Nolan Ryan. If you were around during this year of the
pig, what were you doing?
1 comment:
This is the year I entered first grade, so naturally my concerns were smaller than the things in the wide world. It was a good year, though, and I kept on answering the school bell every year until my retirement from teaching in 2002.
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