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Date	Event
January 1, 1948	The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
January 4, 1948	Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.
January 7, 1948	Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
January 17, 1948	The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
January 21, 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.
January 30, 1948	British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
January 30, 1948	Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives".[10]
February 4, 1948	Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
February 19, 1948	The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
February 21, 1948	NASCAR is incorporated.
February 25, 1948	In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
February 28, 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 and looting in Accra.
March 17, 1948	Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
March 18, 1948	Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
March 20, 1948	With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
March 25, 1948	The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
April 1, 1948	Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
April 1, 1948	Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
April 3, 1948	Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
April 3, 1948	In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins known as the Jeju uprising.
April 7, 1948	The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
April 9, 1948	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
April 9, 1948	Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
April 13, 1948	In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
April 16, 1948	The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
April 21, 1948	United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
April 22, 1948	Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
April 28, 1948	Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
April 30, 1948	In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
May 3, 1948	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
May 7, 1948	The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
May 9, 1948	Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
May 12, 1948	Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne to her daughter Juliana.
May 13, 1948	Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre occurs, a day prior to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
May 14, 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.
May 15, 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.
May 18, 1948	The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
May 20, 1948	Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
May 22, 1948	Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister in 1948 after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945.[9][10]
May 23, 1948	Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
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.
May 26, 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.
May 28, 1948	Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
May 29, 1948	United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.
May 30, 1948	A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
June 7, 1948	Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
June 7, 1948	Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
June 9, 1948	Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
June 16, 1948	Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
June 17, 1948	United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
June 18, 1948	Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
June 18, 1948	Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.
June 20, 1948	The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later.
June 22, 1948	The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
June 22, 1948	King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
June 24, 1948	Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
June 25, 1948	The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.
June 26, 1948	Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
June 26, 1948	William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
June 26, 1948	Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
June 28, 1948	Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
June 28, 1948	Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
July 1, 1948	Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
July 5, 1948	National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
July 8, 1948	The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
July 12, 1948	Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
July 14, 1948	Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
July 16, 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.
July 16, 1948	The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
July 26, 1948	U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.
July 29, 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.
July 31, 1948	At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
July 31, 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.
August 3, 1948	Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
August 10, 1948	Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
August 12, 1948	Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
August 15, 1948	The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
August 20, 1948	Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
August 23, 1948	The World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
August 25, 1948	The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
August 29, 1948	Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.
September 4, 1948	Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5, 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.
September 9, 1948	Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
September 12, 1948	Chinese Civil War: Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun.
September 13, 1948	Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
September 13, 1948	Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
September 14, 1948	The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
September 15, 1948	The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
September 15, 1948	The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
September 17, 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.
September 17, 1948	The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
September 18, 1948	Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
September 18, 1948	Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
September 22, 1948	Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
September 22, 1948	Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
September 24, 1948	The Honda Motor Company is founded.
October 28, 1948	Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
October 29, 1948	Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
October 30, 1948	A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
November 1, 1948	Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.
November 12, 1948	Aftermath of World War II: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
November 22, 1948	Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
December 4, 1948	Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River.
December 9, 1948	The Genocide Convention is adopted.
December 10, 1948	The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
December 11, 1948	Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
December 14, 1948	Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game.
December 17, 1948	The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 20, 1948	Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.
December 22, 1948	Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.
December 23, 1948	Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26, 1948	Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
December 26, 1948	The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
December 28, 1948	The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Miami.