USA: B-25 crashes into Empire State Building. Shirley Temple marries flyer John Agar. Manufacturers of artificial limbs indicted for price gouging.

WORLD: FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta. Red Army captures Warsaw, races toward Berlin. Battle of the Bulge. Mussolini, mistress shot by partisans. FDR dies, Truman sworn in. 5th Army breaks thru in Italy. Air raids destroy Dresden. Western allies cross the Rhine. Berlin falls to Red Army. Iwo Jima taken. Troops land on Luzon. Germany surrenders. B-29 fire raids on Tokyo kill 120,000. Philippines liberated. Truman, Churchill, Stalin confer at Potsdam. U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Civil war erupts in China. Japanese surrender DeGaulle elected president of France. Ghandi, Nehru calls for British withdrawal from India. Arab League formed to block Jewish state of Palestine. War crimes trials start in Nuremberg.

SONGS: It's Been A Long, Long Time. Autumn Serenade. For Sentimental Reasons. June Is Busting. Out All Over. If I Loved You. It Might As Well Be Spring. It's A Grand Night For Singing. Dig You Later. Till the End Of Time. On Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe. Laura. Give Me the Simple Life. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Oh! What It Seemed To Be.

MOVIES: Story of GI Joe. State Fair. A Bell For Adano. Objective Burma. The Corn Is Green. Leave Her To Heaven. The Keys To The Kingdom. Saratoga Trunk. The lost Weekend. The Bells of St. Marys. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Anchors Away. Mildred Pierce. A Song to Remember. Spell Bound. Blithe Spirit.

STAGE: The Glass Menagerie. Carousel. The Hasty Heart. Deep are the Roots. State of the Union. Dream Girl. Billion Dollar Baby. Up In Central Park. Are You With It?

BOOKS: Animal Farm. Brides Head Revisited. Cannery Row. Captain From Castile. The Black Rose. The Age of Jackson: Christ Stopped at Eboli. Daisy Kenyon. The Thurber Carnival. Stuart Little.

FIRSTS: A-Bomb tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Grand Rapids, Michigan fluorinates water supply.