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Simone de Beauvoir's novel All Men Are Mortal is published.
Benjamin Britten composes his opera The Rape of Lucretia.
Marcel Carne's movie Les Portes de la Nuit is released.
Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State, a study of political science, is published.
Andre Gide's Journal, 1939-42 is published.
David Lean's movie Great Expectations is released.
Michael Polanyi's Science, Faith and Society, an analysis of scientific method and medicine, is published.
Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy is published.
Dylan Thomas's Deaths and Entrances, a collection of poems, is published.
Women gain the right to vote in Italy.
24 Feb.
Peron, leader of a Fascistic political movement, is elected president of Argentina.
2 Mar.
British troops complete their evacuation of Iran, but Soviet troops remain, violating the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1942, by which the two countries agreed to remove all troops from Iran within six months of the end of the...
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