June 1948 in History

Events in History

Jun 20 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
Jun 20 Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany
Jun 21 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England

Jun 21 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

Jun 21 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
Jun 21 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London

Jun 24 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates Governor of NY Thomas E. Dewey

Jun 24 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water

Jun 25 Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)

Jun 1 Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
Jun 5 Frank Esler-Smith, English Australian rocker (Air Supply), born in London, England (d. 1991)
Jun 9 Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician (Feminist Initiative), born in Täby, Sweden
Jun 11 Anthony Nelson, British Labour politician, born in Hamburg, Germany
Jun 12 Barry Bailey, American rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section), born in Decatur, Georgia
Jun 20 Ludwig Scotty, Nauruan politician (President of Nauru, 10 weeks in 2003, 2004-07; Speaker of Parliament, 2000-02, Feb- Apr 2004; 2010-16), born in Anabar, Nauru
Jun 21 Ian McEwan, English writer (Atonement), born in Aldershot, England
Jun 21 Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer (The Witcher), born in Łódź, Poland

Jun 23 Clarence Thomas, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- ), born in Savannah, Georgia

Jun 23 Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
Jun 23 Joaquin Avila, American lawyer and civil rights champion who advocated against voter discrimination, born in Compton, California (d. 2018)
Jun 29 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)

Jun 27 American handheld calculator inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers

Jun 1 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
Jun 2 Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal, dies at 43
Jun 2 Karl Brandt, German physician of Adolf Hitler, hanged for war crimes at 44
Jun 2 Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates), executed and hung for his crimes at 50
Jun 2 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
Jun 2 Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician, dies at 42
Jun 6 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, dies at 83
Jun 21 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), dies at 88
Jun 25 William C. Lee, U.S. general 'Father of the US Airboure', dies at 53
Jun 30 Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78