January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death August 30, 1948
The temperature on August 30, 1948 was between 5.5 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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).
June 24 » Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
July 5 » National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
September 15 » The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080km/h).
December 20 » Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia.
December 23 » Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26 » Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
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