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1948 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
•  February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  April 9, 1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
•  May 14, 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
•  May 23, 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
•  June 8, 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
•  June 24, 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
•  July 12, 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
•  September 6, 1948 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
•  November 1, 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.

•  February 20, 1948 – Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
•  March 4, 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
•  April 12, 1948 – Sandra “Lois” Reeves, American singer
•  May 3, 1948 – Chris Mulkey, American actor
•  July 14, 1948 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
•  July 15, 1948 – Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist
•  October 1, 1948 – Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
•  October 6, 1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
•  November 5, 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
•  November 21, 1948 – George Zimmer, American entrepreneur