Historical Events In 1948

Feb 06 First radio-controlled airplane flown

Feb 05 "The Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time

Feb 06 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia

Feb 13 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for W Indies in only Test Cricket innings

Feb 08 5th Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

Feb 25 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

Feb 01 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed

Feb 27 The Communist Party takes control in Czechoslovakia

Feb 13 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA

Feb 29 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died

Feb 24 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia

Feb 11 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs West Indies, out for 140

Feb 02 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

Feb 16 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for first time

Apr 03 1st US figure skating championships held

Apr 15 First Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated

Apr 15 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created

Apr 04 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to first base; it ends in a tie

Apr 05 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting

Apr 07 World Health Organization established by UN

Apr 19 Gerard Cote wins his 4th Boston Marathon

Apr 03 US female Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill

Apr 03 US male Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

Apr 30 Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia

Apr 14 Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup

Apr 01 Helicopter Utility Squadron, HU-1, the first of its type in the U.S. Navy, was established at NAS\ Lakehurst

Apr 14 A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon

Apr 03 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan to restore Europe

Apr 26 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

Apr 20 Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit

Apr 27 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River

Apr 10 Jewish Hagana repells an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek

Apr 07 World Health Organisation (WHO) established

Apr 03 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

Apr 18 Lockhead Hudson aircraft crashes at Lae, Papua New Guniea, claiming 37 lives.

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