The first issue of the Alaska Baptist Messenger was published at a subscription price of $1.00 per year.

A first class postage stamp was three cents.

A gallon of gas cost fifteen cents.

The world's first electric blanket cost $39.50.

Harry S. Truman was President.

Federal spending was $55.23 billion.

The federal debt was $271 billion.

Unemployment stood at 3.9%

The United Nations had its first meetings.

An undersea earthquake in Alaska, measuring 7.4, caused a tsumani in Hawaii killing more than 150 people.

AT&T announced its first car phones.