1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- January 1, 1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
- January 7, 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- February 7, 1948 – Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
- February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
- April 3, 1948 – In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
- April 7, 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- May 1, 1948 – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
- May 13, 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
- June 8, 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
- June 26, 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- July 1, 1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan’s central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
- July 17, 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
- July 26, 1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- July 28, 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the “Battle of London Airport”.
- 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.
- August 23, 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
- September 9, 1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- October 27, 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
- December 23, 1948 – Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
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