June 1948

Monday 07:

Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.

Tuesday 08:

Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.

Wednesday 16:

The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

Thursday 17:

A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

Sunday 20:

Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.

Thursday 24:

Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.

Saturday 26:

The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.