WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened March to September 1948

The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. (25. August 1948)

Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. (16. July 1948)

A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. (17. June 1948)

Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. (29. May 1948)

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States. (26. July 1948)

Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut. (20. June 1948)

Soviet consultants left Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito-Stalin split. (18. March 1948)

Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. (6. September 1948)

The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress. (7. May 1948)

The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane. (16. July 1948)

World Council of Churches is formed. (23. August 1948)

Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. (10. August 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. (13. September 1948)

In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. (30. April 1948)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. (1. July 1948)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships. (31. July 1948)

The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport". (28. July 1948)

Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel. (23. May 1948)

Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. (21. June 1948)

The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem. (13. April 1948)