Timeline September 1948

Events in September 1948 12

• 1890 – 1948 Wilhelmina Queen during World War II Queen Wilhelmina became a symbol of Dutch resistance during World War II.
• 1948 Manchester Deputy Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory Max Newman brings Turing to Manchester, where the Baby has just become the first machine to run a stored program. Turing writes the programming manual for the Manchester Mark 1, works on random number generation, and writes one of the earliest chess programs — which he has to execute by hand, taking around half an hour per move, because no machine is fast enough to run it.
• 1948 – 1986 Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986) Died 28 January 1986, aged 37 American teacher selected for NASA's Teacher in Space Project, killed when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after launch. Her presence on the mission had drawn intense public and school interest ahead of the flight. Her death became one of the defining images of the US space program's risks.
• 1948 – 1980 Juliana Queen of the Netherlands Queen Juliana presided over postwar reconstruction and decolonization.
• 1948 – 2022 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1948-2022) Died 13 May 2022, aged 73 President of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 until his death, and ruler of Abu Dhabi.
• 1948 Democratic People's Republic of Korea established Kim Il Sung proclaims a communist state in northern Korea On September 9, 1948, Kim Il Sung proclaimed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the Soviet-occupied northern half of the Korean peninsula. The declaration came weeks after the establishment of a rival government in the south, formalizing the division of Korea. The two Korean states would go to war less than two years later.
• 1948 Communists win the Liaoshen Campaign in Manchuria Decisive victory shifts the Chinese Civil War in the communists' favor The People's Liberation Army defeated Nationalist forces in Manchuria in the Liaoshen Campaign, fought from September 12 to November 2, 1948. The victory gave the communists control of a major industrial region and effectively destroyed the Nationalists' best armies. It marked a turning point after which communist victory in the civil war became increasingly likely.
• 1948 F-86 sets a world speed record Muroc, California An F-86A flown by Major Richard L. Johnson sets a world air speed record of about 1,080 km/h (671 mph).
• 1948 Assassination of Folke Bernadotte UN mediator killed by Zionist militants in Jerusalem Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations mediator for the Arab-Israeli conflict, was assassinated in Jerusalem on September 17, 1948, by members of the militant group Lehi. He had proposed a peace plan for Palestine that was rejected by both sides. His killing led to the banning of Lehi and drew international condemnation.
• 1948 – 2003 John Ritter (1948-2003) Died 11 September 2003, aged 54 John Ritter was a comic actor best known for the sitcom 'Three's Company', which ran from 1977 to 1984, and later '8 Simple Rules'. He died suddenly of an undiagnosed aortic dissection while at work on his television series, a week before his 55th birthday.
• 1948 – present George R. R. Martin American novelist Martin wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, a major modern fantasy series known for political complexity.
• 1948 – 1998 Phil Hartman (1948-1998) Died 28 May 1998, aged 49 Phil Hartman, a comedian and actor known for his eight seasons on Saturday Night Live and his role voicing characters on The Simpsons, was shot and killed by his wife at their home on 28 May 1998. His death shocked the entertainment industry and prompted tributes across television.