Notable Historical Events - 1948
1948 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California) |
Jan 1 |
Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India |
Jan 1 |
General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective |
Jan 1 |
Italy adopts constitution |
Jan 1 |
Orissa province accedes to India |
Jan 1 |
British railways are nationalised to form British Rail. |
Jan 1 |
After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan. |
Jan 1 |
The Constitution of Italy comes into force. |
Jan 2 |
WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins |
Jan 3 |
Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG |
Jan 4 |
Burma declares independence from UK |
Jan 7 |
US president Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan |
Jan 8 |
Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason |
Jan 9 |
Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston |
Jan 10 |
"Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances |
Jan 12 |
1st Supermarket in UK opens |
Jan 12 |
Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast |
Jan 12 |
US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents) |
Jan 13 |
1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin |
Jan 16 |
35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon |
Jan 17 |
Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire |
Jan 17 |
Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC |
Jan 18 |
1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Jan 18 |
Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) |
Jan 21 |
W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker |
Jan 22 |
Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados |
Jan 23 |
Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six |
Jan 23 |
Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens |
Jan 23 |
Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide |
Jan 24 |
"Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs |
Jan 24 |
Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) |
Jan 24 |
Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD) |
Jan 26 |
Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed |
Jan 27 |
1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates |
Jan 27 |
1st tape recorder sold |
Jan 28 |
President Manuel Roxas granted full amnesty to all so-called Philippine collaborators. |
Jan 29 |
"Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs |
Jan 29 |
Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players |
Jan 30 |
5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland |
Jan 30 |
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse |
Jan 31 |
J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY |
Jan 31 |
Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway |
Feb 1 |
Federation of Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates |
Feb 1 |
Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed |
Feb 2 |
President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
Feb 3 |
Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US |
Feb 4 |
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK |
Feb 5 |
"Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time |
Feb 5 |
Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion |
Feb 5 |
Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion |
Feb 6 |
1st radio-controlled airplane flown |
Feb 6 |
Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia |
Feb 6 |
KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Feb 7 |
"Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 perfs |
Feb 7 |
Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff |
Feb 8 |
5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland |
Feb 9 |
WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 10 |
Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki |
Feb 11 |
Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140 |
Feb 11 |
John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland |
Feb 11 |
Test cricket debut of Frank Worrell for the West Indies vs. England at Port-of-Spain |
Feb 12 |
1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps |
Feb 13 |
Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings |
Feb 13 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy & Baugniet of BEL |
Feb 13 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA |
Feb 13 |
Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England |
Feb 15 |
Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan |
Feb 16 |
1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC |
Feb 16 |
Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time |
Feb 20 |
Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns |
Feb 21 |
NASCAR is incorporated. |
Feb 22 |
Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die |
Feb 24 |
Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia |
Feb 25 |
Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier |
Feb 29 |
Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died |
Mar 5 |
US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height |
Mar 7 |
The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule. |
Mar 8 |
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that relgious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional |
Mar 9 |
Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia |
Mar 10 |
1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca |
Mar 11 |
1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) |
Mar 11 |
Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed |
Mar 11 |
WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 12 |
-5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
Mar 13 |
10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 |
Mar 14 |
Freedom Train arrives in SF |
Mar 15 |
Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia |
Mar 15 |
Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine |
Mar 15 |
WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 16 |
Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behaviour |
Mar 18 |
France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
Mar 18 |
Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting |
Mar 18 |
Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split. |
Mar 19 |
Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC |
Mar 20 |
1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 |
Mar 20 |
20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement", L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC |
Mar 21 |
"Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio |
Mar 23 |
John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) |
Mar 27 |
The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea is convened. |
Mar 27 |
Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall |
Mar 28 |
2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win |
Mar 29 |
Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten |
Mar 29 |
Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game |
Mar 31 |
Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe |
Apr 1 |
H H H Johnson debut as a bowler for West Indies to win v England 10-96 |
Apr 1 |
Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. |
Apr 3 |
1st US figure skating championships held |
Apr 3 |
US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) |
Apr 3 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
Apr 3 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Apr 4 |
84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie |
Apr 5 |
WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
Apr 7 |
World Health Organization forms by UN |
Apr 7 |
A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. |
Apr 8 |
Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF |
Apr 9 |
Massacre at Deir Yassin. |
Apr 10 |
Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek |
Apr 11 |
12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 13 |
75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus |
Apr 14 |
A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon |
Apr 14 |
NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents |
Apr 14 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
Apr 14 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
Apr 15 |
1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated |
Apr 15 |
Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created |
Apr 15 |
KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Apr 16 |
Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris |
Apr 17 |
Elpidio Quirino assumed the presidency, taking his oath of office two days after the death of President Manuel Roxas |
Apr 18 |
International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands |
Apr 19 |
52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:02 |
Apr 19 |
ABC-TV network begins |
Apr 19 |
Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
Apr 20 |
NYC hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents |
Apr 20 |
Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit |
Apr 21 |
2nd NBA Championship: Balt Bullets beat Phila Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 22 |
WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 23 |
KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Apr 27 |
Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River |
Apr 29 |
Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours |
Apr 30 |
"Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances |
Apr 30 |
Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia |
Apr 30 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 1 |
74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4 |
May 1 |
North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea |
May 1 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam |
May 1 |
Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams |
May 4 |
The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949) |
May 5 |
1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier |
May 5 |
Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
May 6 |
"Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances |
May 7 |
Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death |
May 8 |
Bradman scores 146 Aust v Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours |
May 10 |
1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel |
May 10 |
Winston Churchill visits The Hague |
May 11 |
Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa |
May 11 |
Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy |
May 12 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates |
May 14 |
Israel declares independence from under British administration |
May 14 |
Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast |
May 14 |
Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem |
May 14 |
US grants Israel de facto recognition |
May 14 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 14 |
WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
May 15 |
28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends |
May 15 |
74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4 |
May 15 |
Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record |
May 15 |
Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five |
May 15 |
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel |
May 16 |
Mikhail Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion |
May 16 |
CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece |
May 16 |
Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel |
May 16 |
Egyptians enter the Gaza |
May 16 |
Israel issues its 1st postage stamps |
May 17 |
Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi |
May 17 |
Soviet Union recognized Israel |
May 18 |
"Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances |
May 18 |
Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus |
May 18 |
Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel |
May 18 |
The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. |
May 20 |
1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army |
May 20 |
Cleve Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4) |
May 21 |
NY Yank Joe DiMaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR) |
May 23 |
Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs |
May 23 |
Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel |
May 24 |
Benjamin Britten's "Beggar's Opera" premieres in Cambridge |
May 25 |
30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis |
May 25 |
SF receives its 1st telecast |
May 26 |
Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers |
May 26 |
South Africa elects a nationalist government under D.F. Malan with an apartheid policy |
May 27 |
Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid |
May 27 |
Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians |
May 28 |
Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement |
May 30 |
Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game |
May 30 |
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. |
May 31 |
Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings) |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose wins in 4:10:23.286 (192.822 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire |
Jun 3 |
The musical "Sleepy Hollow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Jun 3 |
200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory |
Jun 3 |
Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore |
Jun 5 |
Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23 |
Jun 7 |
Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns |
Jun 7 |
KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election |
Jun 8 |
"Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV |
Jun 8 |
"Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances |
Jun 8 |
John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines |
Jun 9 |
WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 12 |
"Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances |
Jun 12 |
The musical "Sleepy Hollow" closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances |
Jun 12 |
"William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6 |
Jun 12 |
48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA |
Jun 12 |
80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2 |
Jun 12 |
Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
Jun 13 |
Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th |
Jun 14 |
Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
Jun 15 |
1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's |
Jun 15 |
Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win test match anyway |
Jun 15 |
WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jun 15 |
WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 17 |
Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader |
Jun 18 |
American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights |
Jun 18 |
National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time |
Jun 18 |
Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates |
Jun 18 |
UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights |
Jun 19 |
Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel |
Jun 19 |
USSR blocks access road to West Berlin |
Jun 20 |
"Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV |
Jun 20 |
20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo |
Jun 20 |
Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader |
Jun 20 |
Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany |
Jun 21 |
1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I |
Jun 21 |
33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records) |
Jun 21 |
Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India, formerly the last Viceroy |
Jun 21 |
Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens |
Jun 21 |
WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 24 |
Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey |
Jun 24 |
Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade |
Jun 25 |
Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 25 |
Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US) |
Jun 26 |
US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin |
Jun 28 |
US/British airlift to West Berlin begins |
Jun 30 |
Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
Jun 30 |
Last British troops leave Israel |
Jun 30 |
Transistor as a substitute for valves announced (Bell Labs) |
Jul 1 |
Bradman scores 128 Australia v Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours |
Jul 1 |
Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher |
Jul 1 |
NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents |
Jul 2 |
62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (7-5 0-6 6-2 3-6 7-5) |
Jul 2 |
77th British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 284 at Muirfield |
Jul 3 |
55th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (6-3 8-6) |
Jul 3 |
Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death, California; the execution didn't happen until 1960 |
Jul 5 |
Britain's National Health Service Act begins |
Jul 7 |
6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy |
Jul 7 |
Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige |
Jul 7 |
Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42 |
Jul 8 |
500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow |
Jul 9 |
Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve |
Jul 10 |
"Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances |
Jul 10 |
"Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances |
Jul 10 |
"Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs |
Jul 10 |
Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army |
Jul 11 |
1st air bombing of Jerusalem |
Jul 12 |
1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires) |
Jul 13 |
15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis |
Jul 14 |
Israel bombs Cairo |
Jul 14 |
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. |
Jul 15 |
Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain |
Jul 15 |
Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila) |
Jul 16 |
Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager |
Jul 17 |
Israeli army captures Nazareth |
Jul 17 |
Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea |
Jul 18 |
"Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances |
Jul 18 |
Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game |
Jul 18 |
White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game |
Jul 19 |
French government of Schuman, resigns |
Jul 20 |
Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Jul 20 |
Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea |
Jul 20 |
US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested |
Jul 21 |
WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 23 |
Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President |
Jul 24 |
4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash |
Jul 24 |
Soviets blockades Berlin from west |
Jul 26 |
"Babe Ruth Story" premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance |
Jul 26 |
1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show |
Jul 26 |
Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant |
Jul 26 |
Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in armed forces |
Jul 27 |
Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley |
Jul 27 |
Bradman's 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404 |
Jul 27 |
Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt |
Jul 28 |
I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die |
Jul 28 |
The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport". |
Jul 29 |
King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London |
Jul 30 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6) |
Jul 30 |
Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont) |
Jul 31 |
"Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances |
Jul 31 |
US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY |
Aug 1 |
The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. |
Aug 3 |
Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings |
Aug 3 |
FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused of being a "communist" |
Aug 4 |
5 day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America's poll tax |
Aug 5 |
Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) |
Aug 6 |
Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics |
Aug 6 |
Willem Drees forms Socialist government (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) in the Netherlands |
Aug 6 |
Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics |
Aug 7 |
1st Dutch government of Beel resigns |
Aug 7 |
Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6) |
Aug 8 |
"Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances |
Aug 10 |
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY) |
Aug 10 |
Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC |
Aug 10 |
Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours |
Aug 10 |
WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 11 |
Summer Olympics opens in London |
Aug 12 |
Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game |
Aug 12 |
Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment |
Aug 13 |
Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game |
Aug 14 |
14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain |
Aug 14 |
Bradman's last Test Cricket innings |
Aug 14 |
England all out for 52 v Australia at Cricket Oval |
Aug 15 |
3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias |
Aug 15 |
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day) |
Aug 16 |
Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem |
Aug 16 |
Israeli pound becomes legal tender |
Aug 17 |
Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent |
Aug 17 |
Phillies commit 8 errors in a game |
Aug 17 |
Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season |
Aug 20 |
15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220) |
Aug 20 |
US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin |
Aug 21 |
Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson |
Aug 23 |
Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine |
Aug 23 |
World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries |
Aug 25 |
Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's |
Aug 27 |
102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
Aug 31 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates golden jubilee |
Sep 1 |
Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six |
Sep 1 |
Communist form North China People's Republic |
Sep 1 |
UN's World Health Organization forms |
Sep 3 |
W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party |
Sep 4 |
"Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs |
Sep 4 |
Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne |
Sep 5 |
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. |
Sep 6 |
"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs |
Sep 6 |
37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) |
Sep 6 |
Juliana crowned Queen of The Netherlands |
Sep 7 |
1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh |
Sep 8 |
British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound |
Sep 9 |
"Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs |
Sep 9 |
Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 |
Sep 9 |
People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed |
Sep 10 |
Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life |
Sep 10 |
Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England |
Sep 12 |
Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. |
Sep 13 |
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress |
Sep 14 |
Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary |
Sep 14 |
Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters |
Sep 14 |
Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater |
Sep 15 |
"Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances |
Sep 15 |
F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph |
Sep 15 |
WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM |
Sep 16 |
"Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Sep 16 |
"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs |
Sep 17 |
KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA (IND) begins |
Sep 17 |
WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 18 |
"Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs |
Sep 18 |
Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) |
Sep 18 |
Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine |
Sep 19 |
62nd US Women's Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (4-6 6-4 15-13) |
Sep 19 |
68th US Men's Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (6-2 6-3 14-12) |
Sep 19 |
Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open |
Sep 20 |
"Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances |
Sep 20 |
Mexican Baseball league disbanded |
Sep 21 |
"Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 23 |
Braves clinch NL pennant |
Sep 24 |
Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, DC |
Sep 24 |
Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56) |
Sep 24 |
The Honda Motor Company is founded. |
Sep 25 |
"Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances |
Sep 26 |
Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914 |
Sep 27 |
"Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances |
Sep 28 |
WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
Sep 29 |
Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema |
Sep 29 |
WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins |
Sep 29 |
WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages |
Oct 1 |
Radio Denmark begins transmitting |
Oct 2 |
"Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs |
Oct 3 |
Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo |
Oct 3 |
NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week |
Oct 4 |
Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game |
Oct 4 |
World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft) |
Oct 6 |
"Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances |
Oct 6 |
KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Oct 6 |
The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. |
Oct 6 |
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya. |
Oct 9 |
WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 10 |
Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland |
Oct 11 |
"Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances |
Oct 11 |
"Where's Chartev?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances |
Oct 11 |
Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series |
Oct 12 |
Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager |
Oct 14 |
Batavia lt-governor-general van Mook dismissed |
Oct 14 |
Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt |
Oct 15 |
China's Red army occupies Chinchov |
Oct 16 |
"Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances |
Oct 16 |
Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir |
Oct 18 |
Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army |
Oct 19 |
"My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances |
Oct 21 |
Beersheba liberated by Israeli army |
Oct 21 |
Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder) |
Oct 21 |
Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC) |
Oct 21 |
UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons |
Oct 22 |
Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel |
Oct 24 |
Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War" |
Oct 24 |
Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta" premieres |
Oct 24 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis |
Oct 24 |
WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 25 |
Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration |
Oct 27 |
Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege" premieres in Paris |
Oct 27 |
Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev |
Oct 27 |
Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS). |
Oct 28 |
Flag of Israel is adopted |
Oct 29 |
Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev |
Oct 29 |
Safsaf massacre |
Oct 30 |
20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania |
Oct 30 |
Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee |
Nov 1 |
Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria |
Nov 2 |
Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey |
Nov 2 |
WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 3 |
2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago |
Nov 4 |
TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature |
Nov 12 |
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal |
Nov 12 |
The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland |
Nov 13 |
"As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 perfs |
Nov 15 |
Mackenzie King retires after spending 22 years as the Prime Minister of Canada |
Nov 15 |
Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada |
Nov 16 |
Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel |
Nov 17 |
Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry |
Nov 19 |
Belgian government of Spaak, forms |
Nov 20 |
US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record) |
Nov 23 |
Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects |
Nov 24 |
WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 25 |
16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco |
Nov 25 |
KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 26 |
Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
Nov 26 |
1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras produced for the next 15 years. |
Nov 27 |
36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7 |
Nov 27 |
Honda 1st opens in America |
Nov 28 |
"Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV |
Nov 29 |
"Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC |
Nov 29 |
1st opera to be televised, "Othello", broadcast from the Met (NYC) |
Nov 29 |
KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 30 |
Baseball's Negro National League disbands |
Nov 30 |
Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP |
Nov 30 |
Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin |
Dec 1 |
Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine |
Dec 1 |
Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player |
Dec 2 |
Stan Musial is picked NL MVP |
Dec 3 |
"Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss) |
Dec 3 |
1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in |
Dec 3 |
Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial |
Dec 3 |
Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea killing 1,100 |
Dec 4 |
"Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances |
Dec 4 |
SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die |
Dec 5 |
NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions |
Dec 8 |
"Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances |
Dec 8 |
14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB) |
Dec 8 |
Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine |
Dec 9 |
UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
Dec 10 |
UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Dec 11 |
WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 11 |
WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 12 |
Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. |
Dec 15 |
Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury |
Dec 16 |
"Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances |
Dec 18 |
Indonesia begins its 2nd political election |
Dec 18 |
WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 19 |
2nd political action of Java/Sumatra |
Dec 19 |
8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3") |
Dec 19 |
Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game |
Dec 19 |
Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game |
Dec 20 |
Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia |
Dec 21 |
O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place |
Dec 21 |
State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence |
Dec 22 |
KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 24 |
1st US house completely sun-heated is occupied (Dover, Mass) |
Dec 24 |
Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship |
Dec 26 |
Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested |
Dec 28 |
IDF crosses Egyptian border |
Dec 28 |
Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands |
Dec 28 |
US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite |
Dec 28 |
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. |
Dec 29 |
"Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances |
Dec 29 |
Canada recognizes Israel |
Dec 29 |
US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit |
Dec 30 |
"Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances |
Dec 31 |
Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike |
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