Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. Date: June 7, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 7 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place. Date: June 7, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 7 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. Date: May 30, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 30 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid. Date: May 28, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 28 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. Date: May 26, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 26 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. Date: May 24, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 24 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day…
Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel. Date: May 23, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 23 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945. Date: May 22, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May…
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing. Date: May 20, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 20 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)