1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- January 21, 1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
- January 30, 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 18, 1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
- March 27, 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
- May 7, 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- June 7, 1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a constitution making his nation a Communist state.
- June 24, 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
- June 25, 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
- July 8, 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- July 29, 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
- September 4, 1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
- September 9, 1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- September 15, 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 mph.
- September 17, 1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
- September 24, 1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- November 1, 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
- December 1, 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
- December 12, 1948 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
- December 30, 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
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