WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JUNE 1948
Find out what all happened May to June 1948

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

Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. (24. May 1948)

The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin. (26. June 1948)

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

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

The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc. (28. June 1948)

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

Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. (28. June 1948)

The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. (26. May 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)

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)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader. (1. May 1948)

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

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

The Berlin airlift begins. (25. June 1948)

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

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

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO. (9. June 1948)