1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- January 1, 1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
- 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 7, 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- May 3, 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules, in Shelley v. Kraemer, that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
- May 7, 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- 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.
- May 18, 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
- May 23, 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
- June 20, 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 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.
- June 26, 1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
- August 3, 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
- September 6, 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- 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.
- October 5, 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- October 27, 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
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