Date: October 19, 1948
A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board. Date: October 30, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 30 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin split. Date: March 18, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 18 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948First Successful Tornado Forecast Predicts Tinker Air Force Base Tornado, March 25, 1948First…
Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. Date: September 22, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 22 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948Truman Signs Marshall Plan, Authorizing $5 Billion Aid for 16 Countries…
The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). Date: September 15, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 15 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948UN Security Council Adopts Kashmir Resolution 47, April 21, 1948Burma…
Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Date: June 18, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 18 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948Athenagoras I Enthroned as Ecumenical Patriarch…
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded. Date: May 29, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948USS Nevada Sunk by Aerial Torpedo After Atomic Bomb Tests, July 31, 1948Tito-Stalin Split Expels Yugoslav Communists from…