Tito-Stalin Split Expels Yugoslav Communists from Cominform, June 28, 1948
Date: June 28, 1948
Date: June 28, 1948
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…
A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashes on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, killing 40. Date: October 20, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 20 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948Kfar Etzion Massacre in Arab-Israeli War, May 13, 1948Dutch Capture Yogyakarta…
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia. Date: April 9, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948Deadly Donora Smog Event…
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) More events from 1948Nizam of…
In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. Date: April 13, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 13 📅 Events on this…
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra. Date: December 22, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 22 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1948Faroe Islands Gain Autonomy from Denmark,…