June 1948

The following events occurred in June 1948:

June 24: Berlin Blockade Begins.
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June 4, 1948 (Friday)

June 5, 1948 (Saturday)

June 6, 1948 (Sunday)

June 7, 1948 (Monday)

June 8, 1948 (Tuesday)

June 9, 1948 (Wednesday)

June 10, 1948 (Thursday)

  • The Battle of Nitzanim ended in Egyptian victory.
  • By a vote of 78–10, the US Senate passed a selective draft bill authorizing up to 250,000 men aged 19 to 25 to be called for up to two years of military service.[21]
  • In Puerto Rico Law 53, better known as the Gag Law, was signed into law with the goal of suppressing the independence movement in Puerto Rico. The law would remain in force until 1957.
  • The radio anthology series Hallmark Playhouse premiered on CBS.

June 11, 1948 (Friday)

June 12, 1948 (Saturday)

June 13, 1948 (Sunday)

  • In the first immigration case since the Arab-Israeli truce began, the liner Kedmah anchored in Tel Aviv from Marseille carrying 420 people. Under the truce terms, all men between the ages of 14 and 45 were to be interned in a refugee camp if they immigrated to Israel during the four-week truce period.[30]
  • Born: Garnet Bailey, ice hockey player, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada (d. 2001)
  • Died: Osamu Dazai, 38, Japanese author (suicide by drowning); Jimmy Frise, 56, Canadian cartoonist

June 14, 1948 (Monday)

June 15, 1948 (Tuesday)

June 16, 1948 (Wednesday)

June 17, 1948 (Thursday)

June 18, 1948 (Friday)

June 19, 1948 (Saturday)

June 20, 1948 (Sunday)

June 21, 1948 (Monday)

June 22, 1948 (Tuesday)

June 23, 1948 (Wednesday)

  • After having funded the project, the U.S. Department of Defense decided against imposing secrecy restrictions on the development of the transistor by Bell Laboratories. The date and its significance were noted 10 years later by Dr. J. P. Molnar, who said that the decision allowed rapid development of the electronics industry. [49]
  • The Republican National Convention unanimously adopted a party platform.[50] Pledges included a reduction of public debt, promotion of small business, "eventual statehood for Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico," a foreign policy "which welcomes co-operation but spurns appeasement," and "a vigorous enforcement of existing laws against Communists."[51]
  • The British government called in soldiers to begin unloading food supplies tied up in the 10-day dockworker's strike.[34]
  • Born: Larry Coker, American football player and coach, in Okemah, Oklahoma; Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in Pin Point, Georgia

June 24, 1948 (Thursday)

  • The Berlin Blockade began. Russian authorities cut off electricity to Berlin's western zones and halted rail transport between western Germany and the city as well, claiming "technical difficulties." Britain retaliated by banning the shipment of Ruhr coal and steel to the Soviet occupation zone.[52][53]
  • Thomas E. Dewey was unanimously chosen Republican nominee for president on the third ballot at the National Convention.[54] "I thank you with all my heart for your friendship and confidence," Dewey said in his acceptance speech. "I am profoundly sensible of the responsibility that goes with it. I accept your nomination. In all humility, I pray God that I may deserve this opportunity to serve our country."[55]
  • The Military Selective Service Act became effective in the United States.
  • Born: Patrick Moraz, keyboardist and composer, in Morges, Switzerland

June 25, 1948 (Friday)

June 26, 1948 (Saturday)

June 27, 1948 (Sunday)

June 28, 1948 (Monday)

June 29, 1948 (Tuesday)

  • The Central Committee of Yugoslavia's Communist Party defied the Cominform by issuing a point-by-point refutation of the Cominform's charges and making it clear that Yugoslavia would not be dictated to by the Soviet Union and other Cominform powers and would only discuss the dispute in a "basis of equality."[68]
  • London dock workers voted to end their 16-day strike and go back to work rather than face the government's threat to invoke its broad emergency powers.[69]
  • The body of Mary Jane Reed, 17, was found in Oregon, Illinois. Her murder is still unsolved.[62]
  • Born: Leo Burke, professional wrestler, born Leonce Cormier in Dorchester, New Brunswick, Canada; Fred Grandy, actor and politician, in Sioux City, Iowa; Ian Paice, rock drummer (Deep Purple), in Nottingham, England.

June 30, 1948 (Wednesday)

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