November 1948

Monday 01:

Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.

Tuesday 02:

U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency.

Thursday 04:

T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Friday 12:

In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.

Monday 15:

Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

Monday 29:

The children's television program Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts.