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History on the year of 1948

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01 Jan 1948 WW2 The nationalised British Rail came into existence. 
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01 Jan 1948 WW2 Nymphe was decommissioned from service. 
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02 Jan 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Guam. 
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03 Jan 1948 WW2 The former King Mihai I of Romania was exiled out of the country. 
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03 Jan 1948 WW2 2nd Royal Berkshires departs Rangoon, Burma, on HMS Scythia as the last British battalion to leave the country that so many had died to liberate. 
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03 Jan 1948 WW2 Irina Burnaia fled out of Romania for Lebanon. 
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04 Jan 1948 WW2 Burma gained independence from the United Kingdom but, unlike most other former colonies, declined to become a member of the Commonwealth. 
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06 Jan 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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10 Jan 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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13 Jan 1948 WW2 Bruce Fraser was awarded the Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav. 
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28 Jan 1948 WW2 Erich Mußfeldt was executed by hanging in Poland for crimes committed during his tenure at Majdanek and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. 
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28 Jan 1948 WW2 Arthur Coningham departed Lisbon, Portugal. 
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29 Jan 1948 WW2 Arthur Coningham departed Santa Maria, Azores. 
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30 Jan 1948 WW2 Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic in New Dehli, India. 
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30 Jan 1948 WW2 The Avro 688 Tudor Mark IV aircarft which Arthur Coningham traveled aboard disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle some time between 0304 hours and 0350 hours. 
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01 Feb 1948 WW2 Vittorio Veneto was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Feb 1948 WW2 Ceylon was granted independence with Dominion status. 
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05 Feb 1948 WW2 Johannes Blaskowitz passed away. 
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07 Feb 1948 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. 
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10 Feb 1948 WW2 USS Baya was recommissioned into service. 
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11 Feb 1948 WW2 Prince Takahito's son Prince Yoshihito was born. 
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11 Feb 1948 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We ask Thee not for tasks more suited to our strength, but for strength more suited to our tasks.'
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12 Feb 1948 RELIGIOUS The Pentecostal awakening known as the "Latter Rain Movement" traces its origin to this date, when students at the Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada began experiencing a mass spiritual awakening.
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17 Feb 1948 WW2 Eighty-year-old Imam Yahya, the ruler of Yemen, was assassinated. During the war Imam Yahya had been courted by Adolf Hitler and received presents from him, but had turned down a treaty with Germany and maintained a policy of neutrality. His son and successor, Imam Ahmed, moving quickly to despatch thirty of his father's conspirators by having them publicly beheaded by a large grinning slave in the square at Hajjah. Ahmed would begin his reign by publicly blaming Britain for his father's death; claiming that dissident groups like "The Free Yemini" movement were sponsored by the British administration in Aden. 
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19 Feb 1948 WW2 The C-0102 transport aircraft took its first flight over Chongqing, China. 
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21 Feb 1948 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, United States. 
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22 Feb 1948 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was given the medal commemorating "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy". 
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24 Feb 1948 WW2 USS Brill departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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25 Feb 1948 WW2 A communist government took power in Czechoslovakia. 
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29 Feb 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Redemption marks the new beginning of life. Men and women do not live at all until they have life eternal.'
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01 Mar 1948 WW2 Valiant was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Mar 1948 WW2 Renown was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Mar 1948 WW2 The Curtiss Model 29A (or XF-87 Blackhawk) two-seat all-weather interceptor powered by four Westinghouse XJ34 turbojets took the first flight. 
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10 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Missouri completed her scheduled overhaul at New York Naval Shipyard in New York, United States. 
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11 Mar 1948 WW2 30 Japanese officers, doctors, and a female nurse were tried by the Allied war crimes tribunal for human experimentation in China. 23 of them would later be found guilty, with 5 sentenced to death. 
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13 Mar 1948 WW2 Fieberling was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Brill arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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19 Mar 1948 WW2 Queen Elizabeth was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Mar 1948 WW2 HMS Valiant was sold for scrap while at Devonport, Devon, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Mar 1948 WW2 Rodney began to be scrapped at Inverkeithing, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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27 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Bugara arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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31 Mar 1948 WW2 The United States Congress voted for the funding for the Marshall Plan. 
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31 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Barbero was activated as an experimental cargo submarine. 
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02 Apr 1948 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of colonel. 
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05 Apr 1948 WW2 The trial against Albert Forster began at Gdansk, Poland by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. 
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08 Apr 1948 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States by tow. 
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13 Apr 1948 RELIGIOUS At the Antioch Baptist Church of Portland, representatives of 15 local congregations organized the Baptist General Convention of Oregon-Washington, the first organization of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
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16 Apr 1948 WW2 Starting on this date and lasting through the following month, the United States test detonated three nuclear weapons at Eniwetak, Marshall Islands. 
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16 Apr 1948 RELIGIOUS Christians in Action was incorporated in Compton, CA. Founded by Rev. Lee Shelley, this interdenominational overseas mission helps establish national churches in nearly two dozen overseas countries.
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17 Apr 1948 WW2 Kantaro Suzuki passed away. 
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18 Apr 1948 WW2 Manuel Roxas passed away. 
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20 Apr 1948 WW2 Mitsumasa Yonai passed away. 
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21 Apr 1948 WW2 The battleship USS Texas (BB-35) was taken over by the State of Texas to be preserved as a memorial in a specially-dredged canal in San Jacinto State Park, Texas, United States. 
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23 Apr 1948 WW2 ShCh-307 was decommissioned from service. 
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28 Apr 1948 WW2 ShCh-307 was converted to a floating charging station with the new designation PZS-5. 
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29 Apr 1948 WW2 The trial against Albert Forster ended. 
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01 May 1948 WW2 Former Japanese destroyer Yukikaze was commissioned into the Navy of the Republic of China as Tang Yan. 
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03 May 1948 WW2 The town of Ota in Gunma Prefecture, Japan gained city status. 
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04 May 1948 WW2 USS Chub departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 VF-17 became the first US Navy squadron to be qualified to fly jets from an aircraft carrier. Three days of operations aboard the USS Saipan saw the squadron's pilots checked out on a minimum of eight take-offs and landings each. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 German prisoner of war Georg Jantschi made a unsuccessful suicide attempt while in Soviet captivity at the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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05 May 1948 WW2 Curtiss XP-87 Blackhawk prototype jet fighter took its first flight. 
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08 May 1948 WW2 Former Burmese Prime Minister U Saw was hanged in Insein prison near Rangoon, Burma after his conviction for being complicit in the assassination of General Aung San. 
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11 May 1948 WW2 USS Chub arrived at Izmir, Turkey. 
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13 May 1948 WW2 Chen Cheng was relieved from all of his military positions including his position as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
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14 May 1948 WW2 The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the Israeli Independence War, began. 
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14 May 1948 RELIGIOUS After nineteen centuries of enforced exile, the Jewish people regained their homeland when the State of Israel was formally proclaimed in Tel Aviv. On this same date, the U.S. became the first world nation to recognize the newly-refounded state of Israel.
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16 May 1948 WW2 Zhao Chengshou surrendered to the Chinese Communist forces at Jinzhong, Shanxi, China. 
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20 May 1948 WW2 Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the Chairman of the Nationalist Government and became the first Chinese president under the new Constitution of the Republic of China. 
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22 May 1948 WW2 Georgios Tsolakoglou passed away from leukemia while in captivity in Athens, Greece. 
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23 May 1948 WW2 USS Chub was decommissioned from service at Izmir, Turkey and was transferred to the Turkish Navy. 
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23 May 1948 WW2 USS Brill was decommissioned from service and was transferred to Turkey, which commissioned her as submarine Inönü. 
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23 May 1948 WW2 USS Boarfish was decommissioned from service at Izmir, Turkey and was struck from the US Navy Register. On the same day, she was transferred to Turkey and was recommissioned under the new name of Sakarya (S-332). 
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25 May 1948 WW2 Submarine Gür was commissioned into service. 
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26 May 1948 WW2 Theodore Morell passed away. 
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28 May 1948 WW2 Submarine Chub was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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28 May 1948 WW2 Submarine Brill, now Turkish submarine Inönü, was struck from the US naval register. 
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31 May 1948 WW2 He Yingqin was transferred from the Office of the President of the Republic of China to the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. 
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01 Jun 1948 WW2 Littorio was decommissioned from service. 
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03 Jun 1948 WW2 He Yingqin was named the Minister of Defense. 
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03 Jun 1948 WW2 Newfoundland held a referendum to determine its future as an independent dominion, as a British colony, or as a part of Canada; the results were inconclusive. 
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04 Jun 1948 WW2 Jan Smuts stepped down as the Prime Minister of South Africa. 
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08 Jun 1948 WW2 General Lucious Clay, US military governor of Germany, reduced Josias' life imprisonment term to 12 years. 
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08 Jun 1948 WW2 Ilse Koch's life sentence was reduced to four years. 
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12 Jun 1948 WW2 Sybil Kathigasu passed away. 
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12 Jun 1948 WW2 Xiao Yisu was named the deputy head of the Department of Defense. 
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17 Jun 1948 WW2 The trial by the Supreme National Tribunal against Josef Bühler began in Kraków, Poland. 
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22 Jun 1948 WW2 Sun Du became the chairman of Rehe Province, China. 
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24 Jun 1948 WW2 In Germany, the Berlin Blockade began. 
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24 Jun 1948 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the sixth time. 
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25 Jun 1948 WW2 Joseph Rochefort requested the high school he dropped out of back in 1918 to grant him a diploma based on Rochefort's cryptanalysis and language work in the US Navy. 
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28 Jun 1948 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was granted a diploma by the high school he dropped out of in 1918. 
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29 Jun 1948 WW2 Ira Eaker was given the rank of lieutenant general in the retired list of the newly established United States Air Force. 
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29 Jun 1948 WW2 George Brett was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general while on the retired list. 
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01 Jul 1948 WW2 Wisconsin was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jul 1948 WW2 In Germany, the Berlin Air Lift began. 
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05 Jul 1948 WW2 The trial against Josef Bühler ended. 
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05 Jul 1948 WW2 The National Health Service (NHS) was established in the United Kingdom. 
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07 Jul 1948 WW2 Sable was sold to H. H. Buncher Company for scrapping. 
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10 Jul 1948 WW2 Josef Bühler was found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland and was sentenced to death. 
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14 Jul 1948 WW2 US General John Joseph Pershing died at the age of 88, honoured by most of the European nations as well as his own. His body rests at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. 
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22 Jul 1948 WW2 A referendum in Newfoundland showed 52% of the population in favor of a union with Canada. 
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24 Jul 1948 WW2 Rhee Syngman was sworn in as the President of the Republic of Korea at the General Government Building in Seoul, Korea. 
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25 Jul 1948 WW2 Otto Skorzeny revealed to fellow prisoners that he was planning on escaping. 
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27 Jul 1948 WW2 Sable was reported as "disposed of". 
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28 Jul 1948 WW2 Otto Skorzeny escaped from captivity. 
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30 Jul 1948 WW2 The upgraded M26 Pershing medium tanks were redesignated M26E2 Patton (later again redesignated M46). 
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30 Jul 1948 WW2 In Great Britain the Criminal Justice Act abolished Penal Servitude, Hard Labour, Prison Divisions and Whipping as a form of corporal punishment (except in the case of mutiny, incitement to mutiny or treason). 
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31 Jul 1948 WW2 The battleship USS Nevada, having survived both sinking at Pearl Harbor and the Bikini Atoll atom bomb test, was finally destroyed as a target off US Territory of Hawaii. 
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31 Jul 1948 WW2 German industrialist Alfried Krupp was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and the confiscation of his wealth. 
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01 Aug 1948 WW2 Dong Zhao was relieved of his duty as the commander of the 1st Corps. 
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06 Aug 1948 WW2 Captain Wells Field was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. 
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08 Aug 1948 WW2 First flight of the Ilyushin Il-28, the Soviet Union's first jet powered bomber. It would be in frontline service within two years. 
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10 Aug 1948 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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11 Aug 1948 WW2 Submarine Skipjack was sunk as a target off southern California, United States. 
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11 Aug 1948 WW2 HMS Valiant departed Devonport, England, United Kingdom for the Arnott Young ship breakers at Cairnryan, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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22 Aug 1948 WW2 Josef Bühler was executed by hanging in Kraków, Poland at 1949 hours. 
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22 Aug 1948 RELIGIOUS The Amsterdam Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened (through Sept 4) to ratify the Constitution for this newly-formed experiment in organizational and global Christian unity.
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23 Aug 1948 RELIGIOUS During its Amsterdam Assembly (Aug 22 Sept 4), the newly-formed World Council of Churches officially ratified its Constitution.
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24 Aug 1948 WW2 USS Bugara arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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28 Aug 1948 WW2 Pavel Rybalko passed away. 
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03 Sep 1948 WW2 Edvard Beneš passed away. 
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06 Sep 1948 WW2 A De Havilland DH 108 research aircraft exceeded Mach 1 in a dive to become the first supersonic British aircraft. 
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11 Sep 1948 WW2 USS Whale arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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13 Sep 1948 WW2 Submarine Skipjack was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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17 Sep 1948 WW2 Folke Bernadotte was killed by a radical Israeli gunman in Jerusalem of the newly-formed nation of Israel. 
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17 Sep 1948 WW2 Jan Smuts was named the Colonel-in-chief of the Regiment Westelike Provinsie of South Africa. 
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18 Sep 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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19 Sep 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Father, make of me a "crisis man." Make of me a fork, so that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.'
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20 Sep 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary Jim Elliot -- eight years before his martyrdom at the hands of the Auca Indians of Ecuador -- penned in his journal: 'I am Thine at terrible cost to Thyself. Now Thou must become mine -- as Thou didst not attend to the price, neither would I.'
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24 Sep 1948 WW2 Mildred Gillars, known to the Americans as "Axis Sally", pled innocent to charges of treason. 
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15 Oct 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 
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15 Oct 1948 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida became the 48th Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. 
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15 Oct 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: '"They shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isa. 40:31). These wings are not so typical of purity as they are of power -- strength to live above snares and everything ese...Thanks for wings, Lord.'
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16 Oct 1948 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, China. 
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18 Oct 1948 WW2 Walther von Brauchitsch passed away in Hamburg, Germany. 
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18 Oct 1948 WW2 US Air Force cancelled orders for F-87A and RF-87A jet fighters. This would directly lead to Curtiss exiting the combat aircraft business. 
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26 Oct 1948 RELIGIOUS The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America was organized at Des Moines, Iowa. The association is comprised of 24 Pentecostal groups and meets annually to promote unity among Pentecostal Christians.
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27 Oct 1948 WW2 Georg von Küchler was given a 20-year prison sentence for atrocities committed against captured Soviet partisan fighters. 
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28 Oct 1948 WW2 The High Command Trial (The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al) ended in Nuremberg. 13 generals and 1 admiral of the German military were tried, many of them were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 
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02 Nov 1948 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 
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08 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Beiping, China. 
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09 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Nanjing, China. 
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10 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming was assigned to the Xuzhou Anti-Communist Command based in Jiangsu Province, China. 
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12 Nov 1948 WW2 Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death by hanging. 
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12 Nov 1948 WW2 Tokyo war crimes trials ended with eight war criminals sentenced to death and seventeen others to periods of imprisonment. 
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12 Nov 1948 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was found guilty of waging a war of aggression and was given a life sentence. 
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14 Nov 1948 WW2 Prince Charles (later Prince of Wales) was born at Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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15 Nov 1948 WW2 French-Canadian politician Louis St. Laurent was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada. 
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17 Nov 1948 WW2 The nationalised British Steel Industry was established in the United Kingdom. 
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18 Nov 1948 WW2 Iwane Matsui was sentenced to death by hanging. 
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19 Nov 1948 WW2 USS Blackfin was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, United States. 
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21 Nov 1948 RELIGIOUS The Sunday morning religious program "Lamp Unto My Feet" first aired over CBS television. It became one of TV's longest_running network shows, and aired through January 1979.
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28 Nov 1948 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, United States to serve as a training submarine for the 4th Naval District. 
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04 Dec 1948 WW2 USS Bergall began a tour of the Far East. 
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21 Dec 1948 WW2 He Yingqin stepped down from his position as the Minister of Defense. 
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22 Dec 1948 WW2 He Yingqin was detached from the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Hideki Tojo passed away. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Akira Muto passed away. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Koki Hirota passed away. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Kenji Doihara passed away. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki was executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1948 WW2 Iwane Matsui was executed by hanging at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. 
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25 Dec 1948 WW2 Du Yuming was named a war criminal by communist leader Mao Zedong. 
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