June 1948 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1948 Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire
• 03 Jun 1948 Sleepy Hallow opens at St. James Theater NYC for 12 performances
• 05 Jun 1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
• 07 Jun 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
• 08 Jun 1948 Sally closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
• 09 Jun 1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 10 Jun 1948 Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
• 11 Jun 1948 The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
• 12 Jun 1948 Hold It! closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
• 14 Jun 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes President of Czechoslovakia
• 15 Jun 1948 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Philadelphia Athletics
• 17 Jun 1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader.
• 18 Jun 1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time.
• 19 Jun 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
• 20 Jun 1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
• 21 Jun 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
• 22 Jun 1948 The ship ''Empire Windrush'' brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
• 24 Jun 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
• 25 Jun 1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill
• 26 Jun 1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin.
• 28 Jun 1948 US / British airlift to West-Berlin begins
• 30 Jun 1948 Last British armies leave Israel

Famous Birthday

• Nick Drake

  Burmese-English singer-songwriter (d. 1974).

• Kathy Bates

  American actress, a sympathetic star of stage and screen.

• Phylicia Rashad

  American actress, known as cool and unflappable in comparison to her younger sister Debbie, the lively, wild child, defiant and outgoing.

• Elisabeth Huppert

  French writer and filmmaker.

• Evelyne Buyle
• Ian McEwan

  British writer, published from 1975 with a book of short stories, "First Love Last Rites" which achieved immediate recognition and acclaim.

• Daniel Herrero

  French rugby player; later became a trainer.

• Clarence Thomas

  American jurist and associate justice of the Supreme Court the center of a nomination controversy when a former employee, Anita Hill, came...

• Marie-Josée Vilar
• Fred Grandy

  American actor in the TV genres of comedy, satire, science-fiction and action and political thrillers.

• Jerry Mathers

  American actor, most noted as a child star in the legendary TV series "Leave it to Beaver.

• André Juillard

  French comic book creator, whose notable works include Les Sept Vies de l'Épervier (1983–1991) and Arno (1983–1997).

• Ian Paice

  English drummer songwriter and producer (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord).

• Armel Job
• Rolf Heissler
• Alan Longmuir

  Scottish rock musician, bass player and one of the founding members, with his brother Derek, of the band, "Bay City Rollers.

• Don Airey
• Anne-Marie Barat
• Stephen Schnetzer

  American actor, known for his role as Cass Winthrop in the TV soap "Another World," 1982 to 1999 when the series went off the air.

• Erik Schinegger

  Austrian skier, a world champion in 1966.

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Famous Deaths

• Georges Adolphe Hue

  Composer, dies at 90.

• Franz Carl Bornschein

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Ernst Henrik Ellberg

  Composer, dies at 79.

• John Blackwood McEwen

  Composer, dies at 80.

• George Templeton Strong

  Composer, dies at 92.

• Karl Wolfskehl

  Writer, dies at 78.

• George Frederick Boyle

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Sonny Boy Williamson I

  American musician (Born 1914).

• William C Lee

  U.

• Alex Gard

  Russian-born caricaturist (Born 1900).

• Louis Lumiere

  French movie pioneer (Born 1864).

• Karl Brandt

  personal physician of Adolf Hitler (Born 1904).

• Waldemar Hoven

  German physician (Born 1903).

• Wolfram Sievers

  German SS officer (Born 1905).

• Viktor Brack

  German physician (Born 1904).

• Karl Gebhardt

  German physician (d. 1948).

• Lilian Velez

  Filipino actress and singer (d. 1948).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Pied Pipers - My Happiness
2. Dick Haymes - You Can't Be True, Dear
3. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Woody Woodpecker
4. Spike Jones & His City Slickers - William Tell Overture
5. Ella Fitzgerald - My Happiness