The temperature on October 10, 1948 was between 5.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
April 13 » In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
December 10 » The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
December 17 » The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 28 » The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
Day of death October 14, 1948
The temperature on October 14, 1948 was between 7.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 1 » The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
May 30 » A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
August 10 » Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
November 1 » Six thousand people die when a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria.
December 17 » The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 26 » Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
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