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- Unveiling of the first computer ENIAC[1]
- Carbon dating discovered.[1]
- Dacron patented.[1]
- League of Nations dissolved.[1]
- Trygve Lie is elected first secretary-general of the UN.[1]
- Paris peace conference.[1]
- Nuremberg trials.[1]
- Central Intelligence Agency formed.[1]
- Jordan gains self-government.[1]
- Civil war begins in Indochina between the Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh and French.[1]
- The two piece bathing suit is released and adopts the name 'bikini' from the atomic testing at Bikini Atoll.[1]
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