WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened July to December 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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida. (28. December 1948)

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

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). (8. July 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 Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award. (30. December 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)

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

Safsaf massacre. (29. October 1948)

Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. (28. October 1948)

The Honda Motor Company is founded. (24. September 1948)