1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- 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 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 25, 1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- March 20, 1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
- April 28, 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
- 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.
- June 17, 1948 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
- June 21, 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
- July 5, 1948 – National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom
- July 16, 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
- July 26, 1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- August 15, 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- August 25, 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- September 6, 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- September 12, 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
- September 13, 1948 – Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
- October 5, 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- 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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