The German automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen, was founded.
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Alan Turing submitted his paper 'On Computable Numbers' for publication, in which he set out the hypothetical basis for modern computers.
Eisenhower signed a farm bill that allowed the government to store agricultural surplus.
NASA tested the Saturn I launch vehicle with a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft for the first time.
The first-ever cloned horse was born in a natural delivery.
The first all-color and all-talking picture, 'On With the Show,' was released.
