Events in History
- May 15 AT&T becomes the 1st US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases 7 shares worth $1,078
- Sep 1 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
- Oct 6 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
- Nov 29 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada
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Michelle BacheletHistorical Marriages
- Feb 27 Activist W.E.B. Du Bois (83) weds award-winning author Shirley Graham (54) in Queens, New York
- Apr 10 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (68) weds nurse Alyce Chester
- Apr 18 Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (28) weds Joyce Halverson; divorce in 1972
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