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January 7 – The Georgetown–IBM experiment is the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, held in New York at the IBM head office. January 25 – Dylan Thomas 's radio play Under Milk Wood is first broadcast in the U.K. on the BBC Third Programme, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as "First Voice".
L. Sprague de Camp editor – The Fantastic Swordsmen. R. F. Delderfield – Cheap Day Return. August Derleth editor – Travellers by Night. Margaret Drabble – Jerusalem the Golden. Nell Dunn – Poor Cow. Cameron Duodu – The Gab Boys. Allan W. Eckert – Wild Season. Mircea Eliade – The Old Man and the Bureaucrats.
Easy Virtue (written) Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Bohemian Lights (Luces de Bohemia) Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff – After Love. Nikolai Erdman – The Mandate (Мандат) Ian Hay – The Sport of Kings. Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Aankh ka Nasha. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly – Beggar on Horseback. Frederick Lonsdale.
The Caretaker (first performed and published) The Room (first professional performance) A Night Out (first broadcast) Terence Rattigan – Ross. Barry Reckord – You in Your Small Corner. Nelson Rodrigues – Beijo no Asfalto (The Asphalt Kiss) Wole Soyinka – A Dance of the Forests. Gore Vidal – The Best Man.
November 9 – 30 – 8 Young Artists exhibition curated by Martin Ries and E. C. Goossen at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, including Carl Andre; subsequently travels to Bennington College, Vermont. The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and ...
Jim Corr, guitarist and keyboardist with The Corrs. Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Sinn Féin party TD for Dublin South-Central and Chief Whip. 1 September – Ray D'Arcy, broadcaster. 5 September – Liam O'Brien, association football player. 1 October – John Sheridan, association footballer born in England of Irish descent.
Norman Mailer – Miami and the Siege of Chicago. William Manchester – The Arms of Krupp: 1597-1968. James Morris – Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire. Charles Rembar – The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill. Andrew Sarris – The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.
