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1.6 June

• June 3 - Palomar Observatory telescope finished in California.
• June 16 - Communist guerillas kill three rubber planters in Malay.
• June 17 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• June 18 - State of Emergency declared in Malaysia for communist insurgency - Malayan Emergency begins.
• June 21 - The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• June 24 - The Berlin Blockade begins.
• June 28 - Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and Soviet/Yugoslav split.

1.7 July

• July 5 - British National Health Service Act enacted.
• July 15 - Attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites number of strikes all over the country.
• July 15 - First London, England chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous
• July 20 - Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the first peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
• July 24 - Great oil fire in the harbor of Naantali, Finland
• July 26 - U.S. President signs Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
• July 31 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

1.8 August

• August 12 - USA recognizes the government of South Korea.
• August 19 - Soviet troops fire at German demonstrators that protest against the Berlin Blockade.

1.9 September

• September 4 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
• September 6 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
• September 17 - Stern Gang assassinates count Folke Bernadotte.

1.10 November

• November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency.
• November 12 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
• November 15 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's twelfth prime minister.
• November 16 - Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
• November 17 - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces Queen Fawzia of Egypt after she is unable to produce a male heir.

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