1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- January 4, 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- January 7, 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- April 3, 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- May 1, 1948 – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
- May 7, 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- May 10, 1948 – The Republic of China implements “temporary provisions” granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
- May 23, 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
- June 26, 1948 – Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- July 8, 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- July 16, 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- July 31, 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
- August 10, 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- August 23, 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
- September 18, 1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam’s Army.
- October 5, 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- November 1, 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
- November 6, 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
- December 26, 1948 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
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