“Farewell Address to Congress”by General Douglas MacArthur, on April 19, 1951, in Washington, DCMr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride […]
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European Coal and Steel Community TreatyThe European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Treaty was a significant milestone in the history of European integration. In the aftermath of World War II, the ECSC aimed to foster economic cooperation, particularly in the coal and steel industries, and promote peace between the participating countries. It is considered a
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1951 Oscars 23rd Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 29, 1951Venue: RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CaliforniaHost: Fred AstaireEligibility Year: Films released in 1950Major Wins:All About Eve triumphed with the Best Picture award.José Ferrer nabbed Best Actor for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac.Judy Holliday surprised many by winning Best Actress for her performance in Born Yesterday.Directing &
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1950 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1950 Billboard Number One Hits list captures American pop at the start of the 1950s, years before rock and roll and the official Hot 100 era. Traditional pop singers, country crossover records, novelty songs, movie themes, folk revival, instrumentals, and vocal groups all reached the top of
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1950 Trivia, Fun Facts, and Pop Culture HistoryQuick Facts from 1950World Changing Event: The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel. It drew in American troops within days, Chinese forces by October, and eventually cost over 36,000 American lives. It ended in a stalemate in 1953. It
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Nobel Prize Acceptance Speechby William Faulkner on December 10, 1950, in Stockholm, SwedenI feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work-a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the
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1950 Popular Music: Crooners, Movie Themes, Novelty Hits, Country Crossovers, R&B, and the Sound Before Rock Took Over 1950 popular music sat right at the edge of a major cultural shift. The mainstream still belonged to crooners, vocal groups, orchestras, movie themes, Broadway songs, and novelty records, but rhythm and blues, country, jump blues, mambo,
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In 1950, Governor Talmadge leased shoreline to create Red Top Mountain State Park, and nearby established the first “Georgia State Park for Negroes.” The 345-acre park was named George Washington Carver Park, honoring the renowned Tuskegee Institute botanist and inventor. John Loyd Atkinson, an airman from Tuskegee, returned from World War II looking for a recreational
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1950 Oscars 22nd Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 23, 1950Held at: RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CaliforniaHost: Paul DouglasEligibility Year: 1949Winners Announced: March 23, 1950Venue: RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CaliforniaHost: Paul DouglasEligibility Year: Films released in 1949Major Wins:All the King’s Men scooped up Best Picture.Best Actor went to Broderick Crawford for his performance in All the King’s
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European Broadcasting UnionThe European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is an alliance of public-service media entities established to promote cooperation and collaboration among broadcasters across Europe. Founded on February 12, 1950, the EBU aimed to facilitate the exchange of news, sports, and cultural programming and develop technical broadcasting standards. Today, the EBU has grown to include members
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1949 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryIn 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear device, and the Doomsday Clock moved to three minutes to midnight. NATO was founded. The Berlin Airlift, which had been supplying West Berlin since June 1948, was still ongoing. George Orwell published 1984. The 45 RPM record was introduced.
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Popular and Best-selling Books From 1940:The Family by Nina FedorovaFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckHorton Hatches the Egg by Dr. SeussHow Green Was My Valley by Richard LlewellynKitty Foyle by Christopher MorleyMrs. Miniver by Jan StrutherThe Nazarene by Sholem AschNight in Bombay by Louis BromfieldOliver Wiswell by Kenneth RobertsPat the Bunny by Dorothy KunhardtStars on the Sea by F.
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1949 Popular Music: Broadway, Crooners, Western Songs, Country Heartbreak, Jump Blues, and Postwar Radio 1949 popular music was still shaped by radio crooners, orchestras, Broadway, Hollywood musicals, Western songs, country heartbreak, and vocal-group pop. The year belonged to songs like Some Enchanted Evening, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, Mule Train, That Lucky Old Sun, Dear Hearts
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1949 Oscars 21st Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 24, 1949Venue: The Academy Theater, Hollywood, California, USAHost: Robert MontgomeryEligibility Year: Films released in 1948Major Wins:Best Picture went to Hamlet, starring Laurence Olivier.Olivier also won Best Actor for his role in the same movie.Jane Wyman bagged Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda.Directing & Screenplay:Laurence Olivier, who
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1948 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryQuick Facts from 1948In 1948, three engineers at Bell Labs demonstrated a small device called a transistor, changing the course of human technology. Harry Truman won an election that everyone said he would lose and held up the newspaper that said he hadn’t. Citation won the Triple Crown.
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1948 Popular Music: Big Band’s Last Glow, Crooners, Cartoon Songs, Country Crossovers, R&B, and Early Rock Sparks 1948 popular music sat in a fascinating postwar pocket. Big band music had not fully disappeared, crooners and vocal groups still ruled much of the mainstream, movie songs were everywhere, and novelty records could still become major hits.
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1948 Oscars 20th Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 20, 1948Venue: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHosts: Agnes Moorehead and Dick PowellEligibility Year: Films released in 1947Major Wins:Gentleman’s Agreement nabbed the Best Picture award, a film that tackled the issue of anti-Semitism in America.Ronald Colman won Best Actor for A Double Life, and Loretta Young scored Best Actress
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1947 Trivia, Fun Facts, and Pop Culture HistoryIn 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert in a plane called Glamorous Glennis. Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field and changed baseball, and through baseball, America. The Roswell incident occurred and has since generated speculation. The Marshall Plan was taking shape. The CIA,
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The Pentagon Becomes Headquarters for the US Department of DefenseDuring World War II, the United States needed a centralized location to house its growing military establishment. In response, the construction of the Pentagon began on September 11, 1941, and was completed on January 15, 1943. The massive five-sided building in Arlington, Virginia, was designed to
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1947 Popular Music: Broadway Dreams, Crooners, Folk Standards, Jazz, Country Boogie, R&B, and Postwar Novelty Hits1947 popular music sat in the postwar world of crooners, Broadway songs, movie music, vocal groups, country boogie, jump blues, jazz, and novelty records. The year’s familiar songs included Some Enchanted Evening, Anniversary Song, Always, How Are Things in Glocca
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1947 Oscars 19th Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 13, 1947Venue: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CaliforniaHost: Jack BennyEligibility Year: Films released in 1946Major Wins:The Best Years of Our Lives scooped up the Best Picture award.Fredric March garnered Best Actor for the same film, while Olivia de Havilland was named Best Actress for To Each His Own.Directing &
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1946 Trivia, Information, History, and Fun FactsQuick Facts from 1946World Changing Event: ENIAC — the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer — was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania on February 14, 1946. It was the first general-purpose electronic computer, weighing 30 tons, occupying 1,800 square feet, and containing 18,000 vacuum tubes. It could perform 5,000
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1946 Popular Music: Broadway Boom, Crooners, Big Bands, Gospel, Bebop, Country Boogie, and Postwar Optimism 1946 popular music sounded like America stepping out of World War II and trying to decide whether to dance, settle down, go to the movies, or buy a train ticket west. The year was full of crooners, big bands, Broadway
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Road Films With Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy LamourThe Road to Singapore (1940)US Release Date: March 14, 1940Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour\Plot: Best friends Josh (Bing Crosby) and Ace (Bob Hope) flee their impending marriages and sail to the exotic port of Singapore. There, they meet Mima (Dorothy Lamour), a captivating dancer,
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1946 Oscars 18th Academy AwardsWinners Announced: March 7, 1946Venue: Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, CaliforniaHosts: Jimmy Stewart and Bob HopeEligibility Year: Films released in 1945Major Wins:The Lost Weekend claimed Best Picture, and its lead, Ray Milland, won Best ActorJoan Crawford took home Best Actress for her role in Mildred PierceDirecting & Screenplay:Billy Wilder didn’t just win
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1945 Trivia, History, and Fun FactsQuick Facts from 1945World Changing Events: Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945 — V-E Day. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Japan surrendered on September 2 — V-J Day. World War II was over. Approximately 70-85 million people had died, roughly
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The Jewel Voice BroadcastThe Jewel Voice Broadcast was the radio broadcast in which Japanese Emperor Hirohito read out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the Greater East Asia War, announcing to the Japanese people that the Japanese Government had accepted the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military to the Allied
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1945 Popular Music: Victory Songs, Broadway Ballads, Big Bands, Jazz, Wartime Homecomings, and the Sound of a World Turning 1945 popular music carried the sound of a world moving from war toward peace. World War II ended in 1945, and the year’s biggest songs often reflected longing, reunion, optimism, exhaustion, romance, and homecoming. Songs like
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The Capture of Italian Dictator Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini, the founder of Italian Fascism and dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943, played a significant role in the events leading up to World War II. As an ally of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini led Italy into the war on the side of the Axis powers. However, Italy’s
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1945 Oscars 17th Academy AwardsThe 17th Academy Awards unfolded on March 15, 1945Venue: Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CaliforniaHosts: John Cromwell and the return of Bob HopeEligibility Year: Films of 1944Major Wins:Going My Way dominated by winning Best PictureBing Crosby snagged Best Actor for the same filmIngrid Bergman was honored as Best Actress for GaslightDirecting
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