Hermann Göring under cross-examination.

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II 
beginning on November 20, 1945.

The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. It was the first
trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges
ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes
against humanity. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British
member, presided over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months
and consisted of 216 court sessions.

Nuremberg Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

John F. Kennedy, 43, became the youngest man ever to be
elected president of the United States, narrowly beating
Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the
first Catholic to become president.

Richard Nixon (left) congratulates the new President.

In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history,
Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just
over two million popular votes. In the days preceding the vote,
political analysts and polls were so behind Dewey that on
election night, long before all the votes were counted, the
Chicago Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”(above). 

Thomas Edmund Dewey
(March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971)

“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles’s realistic radio
dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth, was broadcast
on the radio on October 30, 1938.

Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater
company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century
science fiction novel The War of the Worlds for national
radio. 

It was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little
idea of how legendary it would eventually become.

Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age
of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned
on. But most of these Americans were listening to Edgar
Bergen with his dummy “Charlie McCarthy” on NBC and
only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. after the comedy sketch
ended and a little-known singer went on. By then, the story
of the Martian invasion was well underway.

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

Battery-operated Toy car, Dick Tracy Squad Car No.1, c.1949,
by Marx Toys.

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally
Plainclothes Tracya tough and intelligent police detective
created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday,
October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror, and was distributed
by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.