WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened June to December 1948

Edvard Beneš resigned as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. (7. June 1948)

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

Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned. (1. November 1948)

Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union. (13. September 1948)

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

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)

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)

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)

Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. (26. June 1948)

Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (9. September 1948)

The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). (15. September 1948)

The Australian cricket team completed a 4–0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour. (18. August 1948)

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

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

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

Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. (3. August 1948)

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

1948 Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict. (11. December 1948)