October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany. October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power. October 27 – Farouk of Egypt declares himself king of Sudan, with no support. October 29 – The town of Carnation, Washington, USA changes its name back to Carnation, after being named Tolt since May 1928. October 31 – The film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England. November November 1 – Desert Rock exercises, the first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert. November 2 – 6,000 British troops are flown into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone. November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. November 11 Juan Perón is re-elected president of Argentina. Monogram Pictures releases the sci-fi film Flight to Mars in the United States. November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto. November 20 – The Po River floods in northern Italy. November 22 – Paramount Pictures releases the George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide in the United States. November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring Audrey Hepburn as the lead character. November 28 – The U.K. film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol. November 29 – LEO runs the world's first commercial computer program, bakery valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K. December c. December – The Institute of War and Peace Studies is established by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University in New York (of which he is President) with William T. R. Fox as first director. December 3 – Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon. December 5 – The Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe is formed. December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt, due to increasing riots. December 13 – A water storage tank collapses in Tucumcari, New Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths and 200 buildings destroyed. December 14 – Raj Kapoor's first blockbuster movie, Awaara is released in India. December 16 – Police