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Events on the year of 1948 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1948 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
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01 Jan 1948 Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test vs. India
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01 Jan 1948 Britain nationalizes its railways
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01 Jan 1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective
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01 Jan 1948 Italy adopts constitution
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01 Jan 1948 Orissa province accedes to India
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01 Jan 1948 The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
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01 Jan 1948 The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
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02 Jan 1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
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04 Jan 1948 Burma declares independence from the UK
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04 Jan 1948 Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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07 Jan 1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
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07 Jan 1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
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08 Jan 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
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10 Jan 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
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10 Jan 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 734 performances
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12 Jan 1948 1st Supermarket in the UK opens
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12 Jan 1948 US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel vs Oklahoma State Board of Regents)
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12 Jan 1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
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13 Jan 1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cincinnati OH
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16 Jan 1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
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17 Jan 1948 Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City NY
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17 Jan 1948 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire
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18 Jan 1948 Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
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18 Jan 1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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21 Jan 1948 West Indies vs. England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker
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21 Jan 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 Québec Flag Day.
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22 Jan 1948 Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs West Indies Barbados
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23 Jan 1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six
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23 Jan 1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
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23 Jan 1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide
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24 Jan 1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 performances
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24 Jan 1948 "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City NY after 124 performances
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24 Jan 1948 Australia all out 674 vs India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
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24 Jan 1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
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26 Jan 1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
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27 Jan 1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
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27 Jan 1948 1st tape recorder sold
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29 Jan 1948 The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
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29 Jan 1948 "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 188 performances
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29 Jan 1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
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30 Jan 1948 Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
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30 Jan 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
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31 Jan 1948 J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
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31 Jan 1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
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01 Feb 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
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01 Feb 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
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02 Feb 1948 President Truman urges Congress to adopt a civil rights program
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03 Feb 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
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04 Feb 1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from the UK
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04 Feb 1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
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05 Feb 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
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05 Feb 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
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05 Feb 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
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06 Feb 1948 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
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06 Feb 1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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07 Feb 1948 "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
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07 Feb 1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
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08 Feb 1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
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08 Feb 1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
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09 Feb 1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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10 Feb 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
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11 Feb 1948 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140
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11 Feb 1948 John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
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11 Feb 1948 Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs England Port-of-Spain
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12 Feb 1948 1st Lieutenant Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
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13 Feb 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
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13 Feb 1948 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings
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13 Feb 1948 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of Belgium
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13 Feb 1948 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA
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15 Feb 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
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16 Feb 1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC
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16 Feb 1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
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19 Feb 1948 The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
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20 Feb 1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
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21 Feb 1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
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22 Feb 1948 Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
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22 Feb 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
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24 Feb 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
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25 Feb 1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
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25 Feb 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
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28 Feb 1948 Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
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29 Feb 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died
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05 Mar 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
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05 Mar 1948 US rocket flies record 4800 km/h to 126k height
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08 Mar 1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
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09 Mar 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
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10 Mar 1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB California
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11 Mar 1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
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11 Mar 1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, Maryland (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Mar 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
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11 Mar 1948 Reginald Weir became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
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12 Mar 1948 -5
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13 Mar 1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
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14 Mar 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
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15 Mar 1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs Western Australia
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15 Mar 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
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15 Mar 1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Mar 1948 The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
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18 Mar 1948 France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
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18 Mar 1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split.
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18 Mar 1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
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19 Mar 1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
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20 Mar 1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
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20 Mar 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.
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20 Mar 1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscanini on NBC
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20 Mar 1948 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win
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21 Mar 1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
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23 Mar 1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 meter))
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25 Mar 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
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27 Mar 1948 The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
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28 Mar 1948 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win
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29 Mar 1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
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29 Mar 1948 Yankees & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
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31 Mar 1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
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01 Apr 1948 H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut
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01 Apr 1948 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
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01 Apr 1948 Cold War: Berlin Airlift: Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
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03 Apr 1948 1st US figure skating championships held
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03 Apr 1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
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03 Apr 1948 US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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03 Apr 1948 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
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03 Apr 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
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03 Apr 1948 United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
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04 Apr 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
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07 Apr 1948 World Health Organization forms by UN
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07 Apr 1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
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07 Apr 1948 The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
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08 Apr 1948 Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in San Francisco
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09 Apr 1948 Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
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09 Apr 1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
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10 Apr 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
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11 Apr 1948 12th Golf Masters Championship Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279
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13 Apr 1948 The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
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13 Apr 1948 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
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14 Apr 1948 New York City subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents
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14 Apr 1948 A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon
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14 Apr 1948 NYC subway fares jump from 5
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14 Apr 1948 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
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14 Apr 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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15 Apr 1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, Arabs defeated
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15 Apr 1948 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
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15 Apr 1948 KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
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16 Apr 1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
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18 Apr 1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
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19 Apr 1948 Burma joins the United Nations.
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19 Apr 1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot
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19 Apr 1948 ABC-TV network begins
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19 Apr 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
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20 Apr 1948 New York City hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
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20 Apr 1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot andwounded at his home in Detroit
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20 Apr 1948 UAW president Walter P Reuther shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
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20 Apr 1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5
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21 Apr 1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold in US
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21 Apr 1948 2nd NBA Championship Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 4 games to 2
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22 Apr 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
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22 Apr 1948 WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Apr 1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
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26 Apr 1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
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27 Apr 1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
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28 Apr 1948 Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
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29 Apr 1948 Bradman scores 107 Australia vs Worcestershire, 152 minutes, 15 fours
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30 Apr 1948 "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
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30 Apr 1948 In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
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30 Apr 1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogot
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30 Apr 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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01 May 1948 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
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01 May 1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
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01 May 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
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01 May 1948 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
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03 May 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams
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03 May 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.
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04 May 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
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05 May 1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
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05 May 1948 Belgian government of Spaak resigns
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06 May 1948 "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
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07 May 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
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08 May 1948 Bradman scores 146 Aust vs. Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours
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09 May 1948 Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
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10 May 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.
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10 May 1948 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
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10 May 1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague
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11 May 1948 Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
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11 May 1948 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy
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12 May 1948 Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
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12 May 1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
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13 May 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.
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14 May 1948 Israel declares independence from under British administration
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14 May 1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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14 May 1948 Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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14 May 1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
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14 May 1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
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14 May 1948 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
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14 May 1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
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14 May 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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15 May 1948 Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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15 May 1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
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15 May 1948 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
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15 May 1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record
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15 May 1948 Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
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15 May 1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
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16 May 1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
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16 May 1948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
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16 May 1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
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16 May 1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st President of Israel
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16 May 1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza
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16 May 1948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
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17 May 1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
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17 May 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
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18 May 1948 "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
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18 May 1948 The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
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18 May 1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus
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18 May 1948 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
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20 May 1948 Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
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20 May 1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
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20 May 1948 Cleveland Indians tie American League record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)
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21 May 1948 New York Yankee Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun)
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23 May 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
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23 May 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive homeruns
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23 May 1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
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24 May 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
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24 May 1948 Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera" premieres in Cambridge
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25 May 1948 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills Country Club - St. Louis
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25 May 1948 San Fransisco receives its 1st telecast
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26 May 1948 The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
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26 May 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
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26 May 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
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27 May 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
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27 May 1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
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28 May 1948 Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
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28 May 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
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29 May 1948 Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
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30 May 1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
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30 May 1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
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31 May 1948 Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
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01 Jun 1948 Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire
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03 Jun 1948 "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 12 performances
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03 Jun 1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
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03 Jun 1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
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05 Jun 1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
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07 Jun 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
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07 Jun 1948 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
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07 Jun 1948 Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
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08 Jun 1948 "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
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08 Jun 1948 "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
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08 Jun 1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
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08 Jun 1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
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09 Jun 1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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09 Jun 1948 Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
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12 Jun 1948 "Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
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12 Jun 1948 "Sleepy Hallow" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 12 performances
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12 Jun 1948 "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6
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12 Jun 1948 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera Country Club - Los Angeles
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12 Jun 1948 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
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12 Jun 1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
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13 Jun 1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
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14 Jun 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes President of Czechoslovakia
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15 Jun 1948 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Philadelphia Athletics
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15 Jun 1948 WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
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15 Jun 1948 WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Jun 1948 Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
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17 Jun 1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
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18 Jun 1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights
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18 Jun 1948 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights
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18 Jun 1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
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18 Jun 1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
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19 Jun 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
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19 Jun 1948 USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
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20 Jun 1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
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20 Jun 1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
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20 Jun 1948 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
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20 Jun 1948 Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
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20 Jun 1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
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21 Jun 1948 33 1 / 3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
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21 Jun 1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India
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21 Jun 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
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21 Jun 1948 WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Jun 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
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21 Jun 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
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21 Jun 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"
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24 Jun 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York gov Thomas Dewey
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24 Jun 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
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24 Jun 1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
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24 Jun 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins
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25 Jun 1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Jun 1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
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25 Jun 1948 The Berlin airlift begins.
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25 Jun 1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 to reatain championship
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26 Jun 1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
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26 Jun 1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
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26 Jun 1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
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26 Jun 1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
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28 Jun 1948 US / British airlift to West-Berlin begins
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28 Jun 1948 The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
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28 Jun 1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
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30 Jun 1948 Cleveland Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
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30 Jun 1948 Last British armies leave Israel
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30 Jun 1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
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01 Jul 1948 Bradman scores 128 Australia vs. Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours
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01 Jul 1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
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02 Jul 1948 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
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03 Jul 1948 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
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03 Jul 1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
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05 Jul 1948 National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.
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07 Jul 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
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07 Jul 1948 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
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07 Jul 1948 Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
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08 Jul 1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
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08 Jul 1948 The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
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09 Jul 1948 Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleveland
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10 Jul 1948 "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
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10 Jul 1948 "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
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10 Jul 1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
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11 Jul 1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
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12 Jul 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
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12 Jul 1948 1st jets to fly across the Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
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13 Jul 1948 AL beats NL 5-2 in 15th All Star Game (Sportsman Park, St Louis)
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14 Jul 1948 Israel bombs Cairo
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14 Jul 1948 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
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15 Jul 1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
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15 Jul 1948 President Truman nominated for another term (Philadelphia)
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15 Jul 1948 Pres Truman nominated for another term
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16 Jul 1948 Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Philadelphia, New York Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott and Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1948 Leo Durocher changes managership from Dodgers to Giants
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17 Jul 1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth
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17 Jul 1948 The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
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17 Jul 1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro
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17 Jul 1948 Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea
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18 Jul 1948 "Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
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18 Jul 1948 White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game
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18 Jul 1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
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19 Jul 1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
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20 Jul 1948 Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
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20 Jul 1948 Syngman Rhee elected President of South-Korea
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20 Jul 1948 US Communist Party Chairman William Forster arrested
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21 Jul 1948 WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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23 Jul 1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
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24 Jul 1948 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash
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24 Jul 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west
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26 Jul 1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a New York Giant
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26 Jul 1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces
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26 Jul 1948 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
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26 Jul 1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
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26 Jul 1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of
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27 Jul 1948 Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley
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27 Jul 1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-Nazi camp at Darmstadt
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28 Jul 1948 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
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29 Jul 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.
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29 Jul 1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
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30 Jul 1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
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30 Jul 1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
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31 Jul 1948 "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
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31 Jul 1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York
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31 Jul 1948 At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
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31 Jul 1948 USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
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03 Aug 1948 FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
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03 Aug 1948 Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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04 Aug 1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
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05 Aug 1948 Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6)
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06 Aug 1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
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06 Aug 1948 Dreesgovt (KVP / Social Democratics / CHU / Liberal) forms
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06 Aug 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
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07 Aug 1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
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07 Aug 1948 Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
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08 Aug 1948 "Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances
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10 Aug 1948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Aug 1948 Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
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10 Aug 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
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10 Aug 1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
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11 Aug 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London
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12 Aug 1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
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12 Aug 1948 Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
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12 Aug 1948 USS Nevada is struck from the naval record.
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13 Aug 1948 Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his 1st major league complete game
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14 Aug 1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
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14 Aug 1948 14th Olympic games in London closes
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15 Aug 1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
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15 Aug 1948 Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
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16 Aug 1948 Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
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16 Aug 1948 The Israeli pound becomes legal tender
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17 Aug 1948 Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
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17 Aug 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
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17 Aug 1948 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
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20 Aug 1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
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20 Aug 1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
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21 Aug 1948 Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
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23 Aug 1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
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23 Aug 1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
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31 Aug 1948 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
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01 Sep 1948 Bradman scores 143 Aust vs. South of England, 17 fours 1 six
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04 Sep 1948 "Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 performances
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04 Sep 1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
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04 Sep 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
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05 Sep 1948 In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
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06 Sep 1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
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06 Sep 1948 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
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06 Sep 1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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07 Sep 1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio
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08 Sep 1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
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09 Sep 1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 performances
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09 Sep 1948 Brooklyn Dodger Rex Barney no-hits New York Giants, 2-0
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09 Sep 1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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10 Sep 1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
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12 Sep 1948 Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah's death.
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13 Sep 1948 Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
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13 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
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13 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
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14 Sep 1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th District Republican Primary
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14 Sep 1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for the UN world headquarters
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14 Sep 1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
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15 Sep 1948 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
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15 Sep 1948 The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
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15 Sep 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
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15 Sep 1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM
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16 Sep 1948 "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
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16 Sep 1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 performances
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17 Sep 1948 KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles / Hollywood, CA (IND) begins
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17 Sep 1948 WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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17 Sep 1948 The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
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17 Sep 1948 The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
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18 Sep 1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 performances
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18 Sep 1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso / Sjarifudin)
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18 Sep 1948 Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
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18 Sep 1948 Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
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18 Sep 1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
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18 Sep 1948 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
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19 Sep 1948 62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
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19 Sep 1948 68th US Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
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19 Sep 1948 Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
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20 Sep 1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
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20 Sep 1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
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21 Sep 1948 "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV
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23 Sep 1948 Braves clinch NL pennant
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24 Sep 1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington DC
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24 Sep 1948 Yanks, Boston and Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
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24 Sep 1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
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25 Sep 1948 "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
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26 Sep 1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
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27 Sep 1948 "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances
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28 Sep 1948 WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
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29 Sep 1948 WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins
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29 Sep 1948 WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1948 California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
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01 Oct 1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting
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03 Oct 1948 Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
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03 Oct 1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
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04 Oct 1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
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04 Oct 1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
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05 Oct 1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
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06 Oct 1948 "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
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06 Oct 1948 KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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09 Oct 1948 WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Oct 1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
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11 Oct 1948 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
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12 Oct 1948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
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14 Oct 1948 Batavia lt-Governor-General of Mook dismissed
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14 Oct 1948 Large scale fighting between Israel and Egypt
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16 Oct 1948 "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances
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16 Oct 1948 Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
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18 Oct 1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
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21 Oct 1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
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21 Oct 1948 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
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21 Oct 1948 UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
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21 Oct 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
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22 Oct 1948 Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
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24 Oct 1948 Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
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24 Oct 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
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24 Oct 1948 WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Oct 1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
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27 Oct 1948 Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
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27 Oct 1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
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28 Oct 1948 Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
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28 Oct 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
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29 Oct 1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev
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29 Oct 1948 Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee and massacre villagers after they surrender.
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30 Oct 1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
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30 Oct 1948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
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01 Nov 1948 President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
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01 Nov 1948 Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
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01 Nov 1948 Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
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02 Nov 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
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02 Nov 1948 WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, Maryland (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Nov 1948 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
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03 Nov 1948 Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman"
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04 Nov 1948 TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
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12 Nov 1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
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13 Nov 1948 "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 performances
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15 Nov 1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada
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16 Nov 1948 Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
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17 Nov 1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
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20 Nov 1948 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
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23 Nov 1948 Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
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23 Nov 1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
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24 Nov 1948 Ireland votes for independence from the UK
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24 Nov 1948 WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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25 Nov 1948 KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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25 Nov 1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
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25 Nov 1948 KING-TV, Seattle, goes on the air with 1st Pacific NW telecast
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27 Nov 1948 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
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27 Nov 1948 Honda 1st opens in America
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28 Nov 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
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28 Nov 1948 1st Polaroid camera sold
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28 Nov 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premiers on TV
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29 Nov 1948 "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" debuted on NBC
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29 Nov 1948 1st opera to be televised, "Othello, " broadcast from the Met (NYC)
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29 Nov 1948 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Nov 1948 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
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30 Nov 1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
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30 Nov 1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
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01 Dec 1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
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01 Dec 1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
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01 Dec 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."
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02 Dec 1948 Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
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03 Dec 1948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
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03 Dec 1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
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03 Dec 1948 Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
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03 Dec 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
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04 Dec 1948 "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
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04 Dec 1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
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05 Dec 1948 New York Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
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08 Dec 1948 "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
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08 Dec 1948 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
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08 Dec 1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
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09 Dec 1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
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10 Dec 1948 The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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11 Dec 1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Dec 1948 1948 Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
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11 Dec 1948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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12 Dec 1948 Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre – 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaya allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
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15 Dec 1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
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16 Dec 1948 "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
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18 Dec 1948 Indonesia begins its 2nd political election
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18 Dec 1948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
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19 Dec 1948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
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19 Dec 1948 Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in NFL championship game
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19 Dec 1948 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
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20 Dec 1948 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
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21 Dec 1948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erroneously renamed O'Neill Place
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21 Dec 1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
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22 Dec 1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Dec 1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
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24 Dec 1948 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover, Massachusetts)
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24 Dec 1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
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26 Dec 1948 Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
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26 Dec 1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
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28 Dec 1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
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28 Dec 1948 The IDF crosses the Egyptian border
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28 Dec 1948 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
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28 Dec 1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
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29 Dec 1948 "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
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29 Dec 1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
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29 Dec 1948 Canada recognizes Israel
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30 Dec 1948 "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
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30 Dec 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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31 Dec 1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
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