February 1948

February 1, 1948 (Sunday)

February 2, 1948 (Monday)

February 3, 1948 (Tuesday)

February 4, 1948 (Wednesday)

February 5, 1948 (Thursday)

February 6, 1948 (Friday)

  • British Prime Minister Clement Attlee made a radio broadcast encouraging the people to support the government's wage stabilization program, warning that failure of the drive to increase production and exports would mean mass unemployment and "real, desperate hunger."[7]
  • Died: Otto von Stülpnagel, 69, German general (committed suicide in the Cherche-Midi prison)

February 7, 1948 (Saturday)

February 8, 1948 (Sunday)

February 9, 1948 (Monday)

  • In a speech on the floor of Congress, Mississippi Senator James Eastland blasted President Truman's civil rights program and proposed that Southern Democrats nominate an independent candidate to run against him. "We find the national Democratic leadership today attempting to barter the South's social institutions for the political favors of mongrel Northern minority groups in politically doubtful states," Eastland said. "We are expected to remain docile while the pure blood of the South is mongrelized by the barter of our heritage by Northern politicians in order to secure political favors from Red mongrels in the slums of the cities of the East and Middle West."[12]
  • The Flag of Guam was adopted.
  • Born: David Hayman, actor and director, in Glasgow, Scotland
  • Died: Burns Mantle, 74, American theatre critic; Karl Valentin, 65, Bavarian actor and comedian

February 10, 1948 (Tuesday)

  • The border between France and Spain was formally reopened after France gave up on its two-year attempt to impose an economic blockade that other nations refused to participate in.[13]
  • In St. John's, Newfoundland, a building being used as an infirmary caught fire. 33 patients died in the blaze.[14]
  • Born: John Magnier, business magnate, in Fermoy, Ireland

February 11, 1948 (Wednesday)

February 12, 1948 (Thursday)

  • The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were cast upon the sacred Ganges River at Allahabad. The crowd that packed the banks of the river and the ancient city was estimated at 2 to 3 million.[16]
  • 4,000 Democrats meeting in Jackson, Mississippi unanimously adopted a resolution calling upon "all true white Jeffersonian Democrats" to assemble for a nationwide conference to unite against President Truman's civil rights program.[17]
  • Born: Ray Kurzweil, author, scientist and inventor, in Queens, New York

February 13, 1948 (Friday)

  • The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorized $5.3 billion to cover the first twelve months of the Marshall Plan from April 1.[18]
  • A London policeman was slain for the first time in twenty-eight years when Constable Nathaniel Edgar was shot by a suspect he was questioning about a recent spate of burglaries in the Southgate area.[19][20] The murder inspired the 1950 police drama film The Blue Lamp.[21]
  • Born: Kitten Natividad, actress, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

February 14, 1948 (Saturday)

February 15, 1948 (Sunday)

February 16, 1948 (Monday)

February 17, 1948 (Tuesday)

February 18, 1948 (Wednesday)

February 19, 1948 (Thursday)

February 20, 1948 (Friday)

February 21, 1948 (Saturday)

February 22, 1948 (Sunday)

  • Ben Yehuda Street bombings: Palestinian Arabs planted two truckloads of explosives in the Jewish sector of Jerusalem, destroying a three-block area resulting in about 54 deaths and 200 injuries.[34]
  • In Vienna, US and British diplomats walked out on a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Red Army at the Musikverein when Russian High Commissioner in Austria L. V. Kurasov accused "imperialistic" powers of helping Germany launch World War II and of plotting a new war against the Soviet Union.[35]
  • Born: John Ashton, actor, in Springfield, Massachusetts; Leslie H. Sabo Jr., American Medal of Honor recipient, in Kufstein, Austria (d. 1970)

February 23, 1948 (Monday)

  • Czechoslovakia's Communist Minister of the Interior and Minister of War claimed that groups within the National Social Party, the second-largest in the country, were conspiring for an armed revolt against the state. An order from the Interior Ministry forbade Czechoslovak citizens from leaving the country without a special passport stamp, while Police occupied and thoroughly searched the National Social party's headquarters in Prague and confiscated a number of documents. A statement was issued that same day on behalf of President Beneš asking "all citizens to maintain calm and order and to continue to work. He assures everyone that he acts in accord with the principles of parliamentary democracy and that he works to the end that all parties of the National Front seek to find unity to renew the collaboration of the whole National Front."[36]
  • Idaho Senator Glen H. Taylor announced in a radio address that he was quitting the Democrats and joining the new Progressive Party. "I am not leaving the Democratic Party," Taylor declared. "It left me. Wall Street and the military have taken over."[37]
  • Died: John Robert Gregg, 80, American educator and inventor of the Gregg Shorthand writing system

February 24, 1948 (Tuesday)

  • In Czechoslovakia, Communist action committees took over all offices and departments headed by non-Communists as well as opposition newspapers and political headquarters.[38]
  • Born: Jayalalithaa, actor and politician, in Mandya, India (d. 2016); Walter Smith, footballer and manager, in Lanark, Scotland

February 25, 1948 (Wednesday)

February 26, 1948 (Thursday)

  • The United States, Great Britain and France issued a joint statement condemning the Czechoslovak coup, calling it engineered "by means of a crisis artificially and deliberately instigated."[39]
  • The Argentine foreign ministry said that Argentina would refuse to negotiate with Britain over the Falkland Islands, which it claimed to be unquestionably Argentine territory.[38]

February 27, 1948 (Friday)

  • The Soviet Union asked Finland to enter a mutual military assistance pact "as quickly as possible."[40]
  • The US House of Representatives voted to cut President Truman's budget by $2.5 billion.[41]

February 28, 1948 (Saturday)

February 29, 1948 (Sunday)

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