1942 | North America • USA | Edward Hopper paints Nighthawks |
1943 | North America • USA | The film Casablanca is released. |
1945 | Europe • Great Britain | George Orwell publishes Animal Farm. |
1949 | North America • USA | Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman opens. |
1949 | Europe • France
| Paris Match is founded as a quality weekly using extensive photo-reportage. (March 1949) |
1951 | North America • USA | J. D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye |
1951 | Europe • Great Britain | The Festival of Britain is held to mark to centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851. |
1953 | Global | James Watson and Francis Crick announce that DNA has the form of a double helix and go on to receive the Nobel prize for their work. Their work is partially based on the 1952 work of Rosalind Franklin who had produced x-ray evidence and notes on the DNA molecule. |
1955 | North America • USA | The poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg with its exploration of drug-induced realities of the Beat generation was censored but finally published in 1957 to wide acclaim. |
1957 | North America • USA | Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road. |