WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1948
Find out what all happened May to August 1948

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

The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. (18. May 1948)

A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. (30. May 1948)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is struck from the naval record. (12. August 1948)

The Berlin airlift begins. (25. June 1948)

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

The South Korean constitution is proclaimed. (17. July 1948)

At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated. (31. July 1948)

National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom (5. July 1948)

Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom. (29. July 1948)

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

Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament. (14. July 1948)

Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla. (12. 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)

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

Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency. (16. June 1948)

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). (8. July 1948)

Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible. (24. June 1948)

Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China. (20. May 1948)