1948 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1948?
- January 30, 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- February 7, 1948 – Sancheong-Hamyang massacre:Korean War
- February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 17, 1948 – Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
- April 3, 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- April 7, 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- May 7, 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- May 24, 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.
- June 26, 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- July 5, 1948 – National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United Kingdom
- July 28, 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the “Battle of London Airport”.
- August 10, 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- August 25, 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- September 6, 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
- September 13, 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.
- October 5, 1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
- November 1, 1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
- November 12, 1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
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