| January 1 | Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines |
| January 2 | Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in New York City |
| January 3 | 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents |
| January 3 | Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (U.S. athlete of 1950) |
| January 4 | During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul |
| January 5 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open |
| January 6 | Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
| January 6 | "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances |
| January 8 | Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda |
| January 9 | Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres |
| January 9 | Washington Capitals NBA club folds |
| January 10 | 1st jet passenger trip made |
| January 10 | U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY |
| January 12 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 13 | German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison |
| January 14 | NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27 |
| January 15 | "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 |
| January 15 | Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest |
| January 16 | Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi |
| January 16 | World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, New York City) |
| January 17 | China refuses cease-fire in Korea |
| January 18 | 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands |
| January 18 | Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" |
| January 18 | NFL rules tackles, guards and centers ineligible for forward pass |
| January 18 | NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts |
| January 21 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
| January 22 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom |
| January 22 | Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter |
| January 23 | 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg |
| January 24 | Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns |
| January 25 | U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea |
| January 26 | Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 27 | "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| January 27 | U.S. begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site |
| January 28 | "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London |
| January 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 29 | Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million |
| January 29 | Liz Taylor's 1st divorce, Conrad Hilton, Jr. |
| January 29 | "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| January 30 | Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio |
| February 1 | 1st telecast of atomic explosion |
| February 1 | 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated |
| February 1 | -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) |
| February 1 | Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed |
| February 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 1 | United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea |
| February 2 | -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) |
| February 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 3 | Dick Button wins U.S. skating title for 6th time |
| February 3 | Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle |
| February 3 | Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in New York City |
| February 3 | "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV |
| February 4 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
| February 4 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| February 6 | "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84 |
| February 6 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security |
| February 9 | St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 |
| February 10 | "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 |
| February 10 | Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari |
| February 11 | Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
| February 14 | Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title |
| February 16 | New York City passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing |
| February 16 | SF City Hall dome fire |
| February 18 | 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes |
| February 18 | Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| February 18 | Netherlands Radio School forms |
| February 21 | South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated |
| February 24 | "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| February 24 | Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran and Paul Falk of GER |
| February 24 | Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB |
| February 24 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA |
| February 25 | 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) |
| February 25 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament |
| February 25 | "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 278 perf |
| February 26 | 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified |
| February 26 | Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia |
| February 27 | 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms |
| February 28 | French government of Pleven dissolves |
| February 28 | Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates |
| March 2 | 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston |
| March 3 | Bill Mlkvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts |
| March 6 | Belgium extends conscription to 24 months |
| March 7 | Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
| March 7 | Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City |
| March 8 | International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) |
| March 10 | FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner |
| March 10 | "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| March 12 | Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office |
| March 12 | Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
| March 13 | 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms |
| March 13 | Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany |
| March 14 | During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul |
| March 14 | Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany |
| March 15 | Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
| March 17 | Government of Drees takes power |
| March 17 | Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. New Zealand Christchurch |
| March 18 | Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 19 | Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published |
| March 20 | Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java |
| March 21 | 2,900,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea |
| March 21 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage |
| March 23 | Wages in France increase 11% |
| March 25 | 5th Tony Awards: Guys and Dolls and Rose Tattoo win |
| March 25 | E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab |
| March 26 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open |
| March 26 | USAF flag approved |
| March 27 | 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 |
| March 27 | Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" |
| March 29 | 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win |
| March 29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying |
| March 29 | "King and I" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 1246 performances |
| March 31 | U.S. tanks exceed 38 degrees of latitude in Korea |
| April 3 | Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford |
| April 4 | Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan and Eva Peron in Buenos Aires |
| April 5 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death |
| April 7 | 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 7 | American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament |
| April 7 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| April 11 | President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur |
| April 12 | Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day |
| April 15 | Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao |
| April 16 | British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 |
| April 17 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4 |
| April 18 | Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms |
| April 18 | France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community |
| April 18 | "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 102 performances |
| April 18 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game |
| April 19 | 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45 |
| April 19 | General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career |
| April 19 | "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 267 performances |
| April 20 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| April 20 | Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators |
| April 21 | 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
| April 21 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1 |
| April 22 | Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City |
| April 23 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open |
| April 24 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open |
| April 26 | Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum |
| April 27 | Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia |
| May 1 | 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany |
| May 1 | Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir |
| May 1 | Mickey Mantle's 1st home run |
| May 1 | Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox |
| May 3 | Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning |
| May 3 | New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) |
| May 5 | 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 |
| May 5 | "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 157 performances |
| May 6 | Pittsburgh Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0 |
| May 7 | International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) |
| May 8 | Dacron men's suits introduced |
| May 8 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 9 | Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River |
| May 10 | Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council |
| May 11 | Jay Forrester patents computer core memory |
| May 12 | 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll |
| May 14 | Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC |
| May 14 | "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 40 performances |
| May 14 | Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in New York City |
| May 18 | U.N. moves headquarters to New York City |
| May 18 | U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea |
| May 19 | 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4 |
| May 19 | U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea |
| May 23 | Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London |
| May 24 | Racial segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants ruled illegal |
| May 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 24 | Willie Mays begins playing for New York Giants |
| May 25 | New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5) |
| May 26 | Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London |
| May 27 | Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing |
| May 27 | Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens |
| May 28 | After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st home run |
| May 28 | Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht |
| May 28 | Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV |
| May 28 | Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run |
| May 29 | 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair |
| May 30 | Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 31 | Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord |
| June 1 | 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) |
| June 1 | International Cheese treaty signed |
| June 2 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
| June 4 | Mississippi Valley State University founded |
| June 4 | Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 |
| June 9 | "Doodles Weaver Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| June 11 | Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal |
| June 11 | New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found |
| June 13 | U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea |
| June 14 | 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau |
| June 14 | "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| June 15 | Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory |
| June 16 | 51st U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Michigan |
| June 16 | 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29 |
| June 17 | "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 40 performances |
| June 18 | De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
| June 20 | Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 home runs, double and single vs Red Sox |
| June 21 | "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 180 performances |
| June 21 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| June 21 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
| June 22 | Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio |
| June 23 | British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to U.S.S.R. |
| June 23 | Most expensive U.S. hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas) |
| June 24 | Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations |
| June 25 | 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from New York City to 4 cities |
| June 28 | "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV |
| June 30 | NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination |
| June 30 | "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| July 1 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| July 1 | Cleveland Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 2-1 |
| July 2 | Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt |
| July 2 | Bob and Ray show premieres on NBC radio |
| July 2 | Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester vs. Scotland |
| July 2 | Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system |
| July 3 | 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
| July 5 | Dodgers sweep the Giants and lead by 7 games (Giants will win pennant) |
| July 5 | Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ) |
| July 6 | 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64) |
| July 7 | 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60) |
| July 8 | Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud |
| July 9 | President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
| July 10 | 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
| July 10 | Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong |
| July 12 | New York Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0 |
| July 14 | 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race) |
| July 14 | Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races |
| July 14 | "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| July 14 | George Washington Carver monument unveiled |
| July 14 | "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 102 performances |
| July 16 | 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est) |
| July 16 | King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates |
| July 16 | Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks vs. Surrey at The Oval |
| July 16 | Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published |
| July 17 | King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I |
| July 18 | Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion |
| July 18 | Uruguay accepts its constitution |
| July 19 | "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 276 performances |
| July 21 | Dalai Lama returns to Tibet |
| July 22 | General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal |
| July 26 | Netherlands ends state of war with Germany |
| July 28 | "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances |
| July 28 | Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released |
| July 30 | Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players |
| August 1 | David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
| August 3 | William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| August 5 | Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg |
| August 6 | Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria |
| August 7 | Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph |
| August 7 | U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record |
| August 9 | Dutch Korea volunteers win U.S. Collective Unit Citation |
| August 11 | 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois |
| August 11 | 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC |
| August 11 | New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa |
| August 11 | New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant |
| August 12 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| August 13 | Great Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract |
| August 17 | 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) |
| August 17 | Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica |
| August 18 | Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth |
| August 19 | Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit |
| August 22 | Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052 |
| August 24 | Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on |
| August 25 | Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game |
| August 26 | Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart |
| August 28 | Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 |
| August 28 | Pirates snap New York Giants 16 game win streak |
| August 30 | U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact |
| August 31 | 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf |
| September 1 | Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad |
| September 1 | U.S., Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty |
| September 2 | Australia, New Zealand and U.S. sign ANZUS-pact |
| September 3 | TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS |
| September 4 | 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman |
| September 4 | 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61) |
| September 4 | NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network |
| September 4 | President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
| September 5 | 65th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) |
| September 5 | 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61) |
| September 8 | Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) |
| September 8 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex |
| September 9 | 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV |
| September 9 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
| September 10 | British begins economic boycott of Iran |
| September 11 | Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes |
| September 11 | Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice |
| September 13 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 |
| September 14 | Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats |
| September 15 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) |
| September 15 | "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances |
| September 15 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum |
| September 16 | 6th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| September 16 | NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players |
| September 17 | "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 90 performances |
| September 17 | Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years |
| September 19 | 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV |
| September 19 | Italian civil servants strike for pay increase |
| September 20 | 1st North Pole jet crossing |
| September 20 | NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
| September 20 | Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
| September 21 | Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec |
| September 24 | Industrial estate at Harlow New Town U.K. opens |
| September 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| September 26 | Professor Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris |
| September 27 | Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan |
| September 28 | Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yankees clinch pennant #18 |
| September 28 | Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton |
| September 28 | Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards |
| September 29 | 1st color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia (CBS) |
| September 29 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m and 10 mile |
| September 29 | S. B. Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter |
| October 1 | 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1 |
| October 1 | 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson |
| October 1 | 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated |
| October 2 | 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel) |
| October 2 | Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs |
| October 3 | Bobby Thomson home run - Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers |
| October 4 | In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn |
| October 6 | Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb |
| October 7 | David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
| October 8 | Ford Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
| October 8 | "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| October 9 | 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto |
| October 9 | Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yankees beat Giants 13-1 |
| October 10 | Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game |
| October 14 | Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs Los Angeles Rams |
| October 14 | Organization of Central American States forms |
| October 15 | Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty |
| October 15 | "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV |
| October 17 | Egyptian army fires on British troops |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| October 19 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open |
| October 19 | President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
| October 22 | Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed |
| October 22 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 24 | Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in New York City |
| October 24 | United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps |
| October 25 | Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom |
| October 26 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles |
| October 26 | Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden |
| October 26 | Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister |
| October 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 31 | Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman |
| November 1 | 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
| November 1 | Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP |
| November 1 | Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP |
| November 1 | Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson |
| November 1 | Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in New York City |
| November 1 | "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 356 performances |
| November 1 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 4 | 9th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 9 -2 at Pinehurst CC NC |
| November 4 | New York Giants and New York Yankees score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns |
| November 4 | Vijay Merchant scores 154 vs. England in his last Test Cricket innings |
| November 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 7 | Constitution of Jordan passes |
| November 8 | New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards |
| November 10 | 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance |
| November 12 | 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala |
| November 12 | "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances |
| November 13 | Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan) |
| November 15 | Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore |
| November 15 | New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 18 | British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt |
| November 18 | Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft |
| November 18 | "See it Now" premieres on TV |
| November 19 | Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday |
| November 19 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 20 | Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales |
| November 24 | "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 180 performances |
| November 24 | 39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14 |
| November 24 | British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge |
| November 24 | "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| November 25 | 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala |
| November 25 | Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears |
| November 25 | Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden |
| November 27 | 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico |
| November 27 | Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea |
| November 28 | John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City |
| November 28 | Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria |
| November 29 | 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada |
| November 29 | Winston Churchill re-elected British premier |
| December 1 | 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB) |
| December 1 | Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London |
| December 1 | Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds |
| December 2 | "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 90 performances |
| December 2 | Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing |
| December 4 | Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper," premieres in New York City |
| December 4 | Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500 |
| December 5 | "Dragnet" premieres |
| December 8 | AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games |
| December 8 | "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 267 performances |
| December 9 | Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ |
| December 11 | Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement |
| December 13 | Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher |
| December 17 | Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants |
| December 19 | Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands |
| December 22 | Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide |
| December 23 | 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game |
| December 23 | Last Belgian communities get electricity |
| December 24 | 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor) |
| December 24 | United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via United Nations |
| December 25 | 1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Australia vs. WI at Adelaide |
| December 25 | West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket |
| December 27 | 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) |
| December 29 | Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal |
| December 31 | 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced |
