May 1948 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
• 03 May 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams.
• 04 May 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (German SS) and sentenced him to the death penalty.
• 05 May 1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
• 07 May 1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.
• 10 May 1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague
• 11 May 1948 Haganah takes control of Safed and port of Haifa.
• 12 May 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands resigns.
• 13 May 1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
• 14 May 1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
• 15 May 1948 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4.
• 16 May 1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
• 17 May 1948 Soviet Union recognizes Israel.
• 18 May 1948 Ballet Ballads opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
• 20 May 1948 Cleveland Indians tie American League record of 18 walks (beat Boston Red Sox 13-4).
• 21 May 1948 New York Yankees' Joe Dimaggio hits for the cycle (single, double, triple, homerun).
• 22 May 1948 The Soviets launched the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia.
• 23 May 1948 Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive homeruns.
• 24 May 1948 Arab : Israeli War: Egypt finally captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• 25 May 1948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast
• 26 May 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers.
• 27 May 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid.
• 28 May 1948 Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994.
• 30 May 1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
• 31 May 1948 Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings).

Famous Birthday

• Stevie Nicks

  American singer and songwriter with Lindsey Buckingham who married and divorced him; together they transformed the struggling blues group...

• Grace Jones

  Pop Singer.

• Miuccia Prada

  Italian noted fashion designer.

• John Bonham

  English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32.

• Olivia Harrison
• Susan Atkins

  American homicide perpetrator.

• Brian Eno

  British musician and composer, joined the group Roxy Music as a tech advisor in January 1971, later assuming a more substantial role in the...

• Steve Winwood

  British musician, a singer, composer and producer.

• Corinne Le Poulain

  French stage, film and TV actress, niece of actor Jean Le Poulain.

• Klaus Meine

  Metal Singer.

• Lindsay Crouse

  American actress.

• Bill Ward (musician)
• Chantal Ladesou

  French humourist, stage and film actress, known for her "high energy".

• Daniel Russo
• Myriam Boyer

  French actress, daughter of an Italian actress.

• Nick Mancuso

  Italian-Canadian TV actor, best known for his roles in "Scruples" and "Stingray.

• Serge Le Péron
• Hiro Yamagata

  Japanese artist who is known for doing the poster-art for the Olympic commission.

• Jean-Pierre Haigneré

  French Air Force officer and a former CNES spationaut.

• Jeannine Altmeyer
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Famous Deaths

• Jacques Feyder

  Belgian actor director and screenwriter (d. 1948).

• Alfred Holy

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Claude McKaye

  Jamaican/American poet/author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies in Chicago, Illinois at age 57.

• Alfred Kastner

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Jose Vianna da Motta

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Theodore Morell

  Hitler's personal physician (Born 1886).

• Unity Mitford

  English fascist sympathizer (Born 1914).

• Dame May Whitty

  English actress (Born 1865).

• Christos Ladas

  Greek minister of Justice, is murdered.

• 43 communist rebels executed in Athens

  Greece.

• U Saw

  Burmese politician (Born 1900).

• Jozsef Klekl

  Slovene politician (Born 1874).

• May Whitty

  Actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82.

• Isidor Achron

  Composer, dies at 55.

• Edward Flanagan

  Irish-American Roman Catholic priest; came to the U.S.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - The Dickey-Bird Song
2. Frankie Yankovic & His Yanks - Just Because
3. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Tell Me a Story
4. Jon & Sandra Steele - My Happiness
5. Vera Lynn - You Can't be True, Dear