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Truman, 33rd president of the United States (d. 1972)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364372487#May", "title": "1884", "revid": 1364372487, "section": "Births › May"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King share nuclear information with the U.N. and call for a United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#November", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession, after the vice president.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#July", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law to create the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#July", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives, in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#June", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – To fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#May", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address, speaking on the world food crises.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#October", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#April", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#July", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 2", "text": "November 2 – 1948 United States presidential election: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey, \"Dixiecrat\" Strom Thurmond and Progressive party candidate Henry A. Wallace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#November", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – United States President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#January", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#April", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: The U.S. Supreme Court limits the power of the President to seize private business, after President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in the United States, just before the 1952 steel strike begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#March–April", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 26", "text": "December 26 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#December", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Deaths › December"}}]}