1948 q1 TimelineJanuary01 - Italy adopts constitution.
01 - Britain nationalizes its railways.
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01 - Orissa province accedes to India.
04 - Burma declares independence from UK.
07 - US president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan.
08 - Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dike for treason.
14 - Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42.
16 - 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon.
17 - Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire.
17 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC.
23 - Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens.
26 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed.
27 - 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates.
27 - 1st tape recorder sold.
29 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs.
30 - India Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician, assassinated by a member of the high Hindu caste.
30 - Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 76.
30 - Mahatma Ghandi ?+, murdered by Hindu extremists in India.
31 - Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway.
31 - J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY.
February01 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed.
02 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program.in first `civil rights' message to Congress, asks for anti-lynching law
06 - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38.
06 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown.
07 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff.
09 - WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting.
11 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland.
13 - Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England.
15 - Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan.
16 - Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time.
21 - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80.
22 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die.
24 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia.
29 - Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died.
March05 - US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height.
05 - Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson.
11 - WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting.
14 - Freedom Train arrives in SF.
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15 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine.
17 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database, is born.
18 - France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels.
18 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting.
21 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio.
23 - John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)).
26 - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43.
31 - Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe.
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