WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1948
Find out what all happened July to October 1948

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

The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. (17. September 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. (18. September 1948)

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

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

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

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

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

Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies. (18. September 1948)

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

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

Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah's death. (12. September 1948)

Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army. (18. September 1948)

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

The Honda Motor Company is founded. (24. 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 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)

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