Aug 10 ABC enters network TV

Aug 11 Summer Olympics opens in London

Aug 14 14th Olympic games in London closes

Aug 13 Satchel Paige at 42 pitches his first major league complete game

Aug 06 Fanny Blankers-Koen from Netherlands is first women to win 3 golds at Olympics

Aug 17 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent

Aug 16 The Israeli pound becomes legal tender

Aug 06 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics

Aug 24 The birth of Jean Michel Jarre, French 'electronic music' musician

Aug 15 Korea proclaims itself a republic

Aug 10 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC

Oct 01 Calif Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages

Oct 04 Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The Railroad Hour debuted on ABC radio. The theme song was I’ ve Been Working on the Railroad and the show was sponsored by -- get ready ­ America’ s Railroads.

Oct 27 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev

Oct 30 20 die &6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania

Oct 15 First women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.

Oct 21 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated in Washington DC

Oct 01 Radio Denmark begins transmitting

Oct 15 First women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan: CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.

Oct 28 Flag of Israel is adopted

Jul 09 Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve

Jul 23 USS Putnum (DD-757) evacuates U.N. team from Haifa, Israel and becomes first U.S. Navy ship to fly the U.N. flag.

Jul 17 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro

Jul 01 Berlin Airlift, supplying Berlin's zones by air

Jul 15 John J Persing US General (WW I), dies at 87

Jul 28 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die

Jul 17 Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea

Jul 12 The first jets to fly across the Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)

Jul 21 Arshile Gorky abstract expressionist, dies at 43

Jul 30 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)

Jul 29 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London

Jul 26 The first black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show

Jul 01 NYC subway fare goes to 10., bus fare to 7. & combo fare at 12.

Jul 24 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west

Jul 05 Britain's National Health Service Act begins

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