WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened January to December 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)

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

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia. (9. April 1948)

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

The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. (15. August 1948)

In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II. (12. November 1948)

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

The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000. (5. October 1948)

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

Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater. (8. June 1948)

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

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

1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. (13. May 1948)

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

Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. (7. January 1948)

The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways. (1. January 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 DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. (28. December 1948)