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January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the formation of the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.
February 22 to May 3 - The Texarkana Moonlight Murders: five people are murdered and three are injured by an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer in Texarkana, Texas over a span of three-and-a-half months.
March 2 - Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
March 15 - The NKVD is dissolved.
April 5 - The Democrat Party is founded.
May 4 - SMERSH is dissolved.
May 11 - The United Malays National Organisation is founded.
July 22 - King David Hotel bombing: the Irgun bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, killing 90.
July 25 - In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white supremacists shoot and kill two African-American couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.
September 30 to October 1 - Ten high-ranking members of the Nazi Party are hanged at Nuremberg by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
October 10 to November 9 - The Noakhali riots take place in Bengal: the Muslim National Guard massacre Hindus in Bengal en masse, leaving an estimated 5000 people dead.
December 19 - Beginning of the First Indochina War.
Unknown - The School of the Americas is established by the United States Army.

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 * Unknown - [[Wenche Behring]]
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