WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1948
Find out what all happened February to November 1948

Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater. (8. June 1948)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is struck from the naval record. (12. August 1948)

Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned. (1. November 1948)

Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia. (22. February 1948)

Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. (16. July 1948)

Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. (27. October 1948)

Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. (21. June 1948)

The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc. (28. June 1948)

World Council of Churches is formed. (23. August 1948)

In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. (30. April 1948)

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO. (9. June 1948)

Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army. (18. September 1948)

Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center. (28. April 1948)

A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. (30. May 1948)

Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible. (24. June 1948)

Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. (29. May 1948)

The Honda Motor Company is founded. (24. September 1948)

Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne. (12. May 1948)

Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament. (14. July 1948)

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces. (22. April 1948)

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