I like to do things in order but I have been waiting on three 1947 honor winners and they seem to take a bit longer to find so I wanted to keep moving on. I will retrun to 1947 when I get my hands on the books.
So 1948! I found it to be somewhat of a quite year. Tell me what you think.
1948
Facts taken from Wikipedia.
January
· January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
· January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
February
· February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
· February 21 – The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr.
· February 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech:"Vítězný únor"; Slovak:"Víťazný Február") until November 1989.
March
· March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
· March 17- The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
April
· April 3
· April 19 – Burma joins the United Nations.
· April 30 – The Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
May
· May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.
· May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
· May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
June
· June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
· June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
· June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
July
· July 15-The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
· July 20 – Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).
· July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada after a referendum.
· July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
August
· August 15 – The Republic of Korea is established.
September
· September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.
October
· October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
November
· November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and 'Dixiecrat' Strom Thurmond.
December
· December 19 – The Cleveland Browns become the first professional football team to go undefeated in a season
· December 26 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea
· December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances
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