Ten Twenty-One* Headlines From The Year I Was Born.
I couldn't help it; I was having too much fun to quit
- South Africa institutionalizes apartheid.
- For the first year ever, no African-Americans are reportedly lynched in the US.
- Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, dies; also Solomon Guggenheim (art collector), Wallace Beery (actor), José Clemente Orozco (painter), Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (tap dancer), and Leadbelly (blues singer)
- Britain recognizes the independence of the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland remains a part of the United Kingdom
- Casey Stengal manages the New York Yankees to a World Series championship over the Brooklyn Dodgers
- All the King's Men wins Oscar for Best Picture
- Joseph Stalin orders minting of a 100 korin coin to commemorate his 70th birthday
- German Federal Republic (West Germany) established
- Hurricane with 150 mph winds hits West Palm Beach, FL
- The World Cup, scheduled to be held in Brazil, is postponed until the following year
- The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finalnd, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, and Portugal
- Newfoundlanders vote for the first time in a Canadian federal election
- Los Angeles receives its first recorded snowfall
- English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang during a BBC broadcast
- Chinese communist troops take Nanjing
- Helen Keller is named as a communist in an FBI report
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants is established in India I had to include this one.
- A World War II veteran kills thirteen neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer
- Civil war ends in Greece when the communists surrender
- Squaw Valley ski resort opens
- The Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its subterranean catacombs could be the apostle Peter; 19 years later this is confirmed
