In a speech before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ, Truman talks about the importance of spirituality in the atomic age. Churchill discusses postwar problems and American financial aid to Britain. The Lazarus Annex opens in the renovated Columbus Auditorium. At the Downtown Columbus Woolworth's, a cup of coffee costs a nickel, and a Swiss steak lunch 35 cents. In Nuremburg, Germany, nine Nazi leaders are hanged for crimes against humanity.
WRFD radio begins broadcasting.
The Delphi General Motors Fisher Body Plant opens. Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers breaks major league baseball's color barrier. Bell Laboratories scientists invent the transistor. Chuck Yeager, in a Bell X-1 rocket airplane, becomes the first person to break the sound barrier. Inventor Chester Carlson demonstrates the first copying machine at Battelle.