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Ghandi's Assassination
Ghandi's Assassination CitationGhandi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. He was shot when he was proceeding through the Biria House Gardens to the pergola from which he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting message. He was killed by an assassin's bullet. The assassin was a Hindu who fired three shots from a pistol at a range of three feet. -
Policy of Apartheid Began
Policy of Apartheid Begins CitationApartheid was a time in South Africa May 1, 1948 it began, when the government made laws to discriminate against black people. The National Party ruled Africa during that time and made the laws. Everything, including medical care, education, and even the country's beaches were segregated by race. Apartheid did not end unti Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994. -
State of Israel Founded
State of Israel founded CitationOn May 14, 1948 chairman proclaims the State of Israel was established. This was the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. This promted applause and tears from the crowd gathered at the museum. At midnight the state of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the British mandate in Palestine. Ben-Gurion became Israel's first premier. -
Nakba Day
Nakba Day citationNakba day is the meaning of the day of catastrophe, an annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the anniversary of the creation of Israel. The day marks the expulsions and flight if Palestinians from their towns and villages in the face of Jewish and later Israeli troop advances and their displacement from Palestine and the loss of their property. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift CitationThe Berlin Airlift occured on June 24, 1948. At the end of the second World War U.S, British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The crisis was a result of competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Union. -
Displaced Persons Act
The Displaced Persons Act permits people from Europe who were displaced by the war to enter the US outside of existing immigration quotas. It also gave preference to relatives of American citizens and insisted that all applicants must present guarantees by sponsors that housing was waiting for them and they would not displace American workers. -
US Joins NATO
US Joins NATO CitationThe US joins in forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a pact for mutual defense of Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the US. The USSR's leader Joesph Stalin signs an alliance with the People's Republic of China, a communist nation formed in 1949. The Soviet Union conducts its first Atomic Test -
First Non Stop Flight Around the World
First Non-Stop Flight Around the World CitationCaptain James Gallagher excelled in the first non-stop flight around the world on February 27, 1949. Him and his USAF crew of 13 flew a Boeing B-50A Superfortress around the world non-stop from Ft. Worth and returning to the same place. 23,452 miles in 94 hours., 1 minute., with four aerial refuelings in route. -
China becomes Communist
China becomes Communist CitationAfter the surrender of the Empire of Japan in the second World War, the communist party defeated the nationalist Kuomintang in mainland China and established the People's Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 1949, while the Kuomintang relocated the ROC government to its present capital of Taipei. The history of China goes back to its ancient civilization one of the world's earliest. -
Operation Haylift
Operation Haylift CitationOperation Haylift involved men and women of the Armed Forces and National Guard, as well as civilians from Nevada and California who came to rescue like a modern calvary. The US airforce began it and it needed to get food to two million cattle and sheep stranded by heavy snow on the great plains.
