Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third U.S. President
(1945-1953)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
Food: McDonald's installs drive-through service in its San
Bernardino, CA hamburger stand and eliminates carhops.
Anderson, Jean
American Century Cookbook. New York: Clarkson N Potter
Publishers, 1997 p 267
- Military:
Israel War of Independence
After World War II the United Nations declared the establishment of the State of Israel on
29 Nov
1947. The new elected Israeli
Prime Minister, Ben Gurion, declared Israel a state on
14 May 1948 and Arab nations attacked 15 May 1948.
The War for Independence ended with the final ceasefire agreement with Syria 17 July 1949.
Photography:
Ansel Easton Adams
(February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet.
In 1927 Adams published his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras.
His first book, Taos Pueblo, was published in 1930.
In 1933 the Delphic Gallery gave Adams his first New York show. His first series of technical articles was published in Camera Craft in 1934, and his first widely distributed book, Making a Photograph, appeared in 1935. He published eight portfolios of original photographic prints (1927, 1948, 1950, 1960, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976).
He produced ten volumes of technical manuals on photography and over
four dozen books.