Page 14: Historical Events In 1948

Oct 15   inaugural 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 15   inaugural 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 16   "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances.   

Oct 16   Henry Foley, cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 and 2), dies.   

Oct 18   Operation 10 Plagues.   

Oct 18   [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies.   

Oct 19   "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances.   

Oct 21   Beersheba liberated by Israeli army.   

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

Oct 22   Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies   

Oct 22   Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel   

Oct 23   Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71   

Oct 24   Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"   

Oct 24   Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78   

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 the Negev   

Oct 28   Flag of Israel is adopted.   

Oct 29   Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev.   

Oct 30   20 die and 6000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania.   

Oct 31   Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Han], writer, dies   

Nov 02   Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers   

Nov 03   2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago   

Nov 04   In this year, TS Eliot claims Nobel Prize for literature.   

Nov 09   Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58.   

Nov 10   Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71.   

Nov 12   Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal   

Nov 12   Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81   

Nov 13   "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 perfs.   

Nov 14   Prince Charles born   

Nov 15   William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada   

Nov 16   Operation Magic Carpet.   

Nov 17   Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry.   

Nov 19   Belgian govt of Spaak, forms   

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Jan 03   Larry mcneeley: Lafayette ind, banjo player (glen campbell hour)   

Jan 03   Manfred kokot: East german runner (world record 50 m indoor)   

Jan 04   Eugeniusz wycisÅ‚o: Polish politician   

Jan 05   Parthasarathy sharma: Cricketer (indian batsman of the mid-70's)   

Jan 05   Thom mooney: Rocker   

Jan 06   Dayle hadlee: Cricketer (brother of richard, nz medium-pacer of 70's)   

Jan 06   Guy spencer gardner: Alta vista va, lt col usaf/astro (sts 27, sts 35)   

Jan 06   Robert e [bob] wise jr: (rep-d-wv, 1983- )   

Jan 01   Hermann k j zilcher: German pianist/composer (liebesmesse),    

Jan 07   Raoul auernheimer: Writer,    

Jan 08   Kurt schwitters: Writer,    

Jan 14   Anna "ans" van dike: Dutch jewish nazi-collaborator, executed at 42   

Jan 19   Tony garnier: French architect (b. 1869)   

Jan 21   Ermanno wolf-ferrari: Composer,    

Jan 24   Maria mandel: Camp leader at auschwitz (b. 1912)   

Jan 26   Ignaz friedman: Composer,