Events Date 1948 P 3 | History by KabAstro

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Hideki Tojo

Nov 12 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

Nov 12 The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland

Louis St. Laurent

Nov 15 Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada

Mackenzie King Retires

Nov 15 Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as Prime Minister of Canada

10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

Nov 17 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
Nov 20 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
Nov 23 Dr Frank G. Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
Nov 24 "Bicycle Thieves", Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring himself and Cesare Zavattini, is released (Honorary Academy Award 1950)
Nov 24 WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 25 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco
Nov 25 KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting

First Polaroid Camera

Nov 26 1st Polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for next 15 years

Nov 27 Honda 1st opens in America
Nov 28 Edited film serial "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV, later becoming the 1st network western series on NBC
Nov 29 1st opera to be televised, "Othello", broadcast from the Metropolitain Opera House in New York City
Nov 29 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 29 Puppet TV show "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" starring Fran Allison debuts on NBC's WNBQ in Chicago, Illinois
Nov 30 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
Nov 30 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
Nov 30 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
Dec 1 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
Dec 1 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player

Stan Musial

Dec 2 After one of the best seasons in baseball history, St Louis Cardinals utility Stan Musial is named NL MVP; leads NL in batting average (.365), runs (135), RBI (131), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18) & slugging (.702), with 39 HRs

Dec 3 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
Dec 3 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in

Bradman's Testimonial

Dec 3 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 123 for the Bradman XI in his own testimonial match against the Lindsay Hassett's XI in front of 52,360 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Dec 3 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in East China Sea killing 1,100
Dec 4 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750
Dec 5 NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
Dec 8 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
Dec 8 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
Dec 9 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dec 10 UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dec 11 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 11 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 12 Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
Dec 15 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
Dec 18 Indonesia begins its 2nd political election
Dec 18 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 19 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
Dec 19 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
Dec 20 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
Dec 21 1949 NFL Draft: University of Pennsylvania linebacker/center Chuck Bednarik is selected first by Philadelphia Eagles
Dec 21 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erroneously renamed O'Neill Place
Dec 21 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
Dec 22 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting

Cinderella

Dec 23 "Cinderella" the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev is first presented by Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden, London

Dec 24 First US completely solar heated house is occupied (Dover, Mass)
Dec 24 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
Dec 26 Hungarian cardinal József Mindszenty arrested
Dec 28 IDF crosses Egyptian border
Dec 28 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
Dec 28 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
Dec 28 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
Dec 29 Canada recognizes Israel
Dec 29 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
Dec 31 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike