- Sunflower
- Sesame
- Olive
- Vegetable
- Grape seed
- Wallnut
- Groundnut
- The United Nations HQ opens in New York
- The Treaty of Paris is adopted
- The Festival of Britain opens
- Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland premieres in London
- The Catcher in the Rye is first published
- U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
- The first thermonuclear weapon is tested on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States.
- Eeyore
- Tigger
- Piglet
- Rabbit
- Roo
- Owl
- Heffalump
- Pointed round
- Filbert
- Flat shader
- Fan
- Script
- Angle shader
- Oval mop
- James Collinson (painter)
- William Holman Hunt (painter)
- John Everett Millais (painter)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (painter, poet)
- William Michael Rossetti (critic)
- Frederic George Stephens (critic)
- Thomas Woolner (sculptor, poet)
- Lenin
- Louis XIV
- Oxford Circus
- W.G. Grace
- Trainspotting/Underworld
- Heaven 17
- 3
- Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness - To Autumn
- Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! - Isabella
- I wandered in a forest thoughtlessly, - Ode to Psyche
- Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, - Hyperion
- O Peace! and dost thou with thy presence bless - On Peace
- Now Morning from her orient chamber came, - Imitation of Spenser
- My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains - Ode to a Nightingale