Editing 1948 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1948}}
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Puma (brand)|Puma]], a global [[sports goods]] brand, is founded in [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]], by [[Rudolf Dassler]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport|publisher=Fundinguniverse.com|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Puma-AG-Rudolf-Dassler-Sport-Company-History.html|access-date=2020-11-25}}</ref> having split from his brother "[[Adolf Dassler|Adi]]".
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The [[Palomar Observatory]] telescope is finished in California.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Hasan Saka]] forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
* [[June 11]] &ndash; The first [[monkeys in space|monkey astronaut]], Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Chinese newspaper ''Renmin Ribao'' (''[[People's Daily]]'') is first published in Beijing, China.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Renmin-Ribao|title=Renmin Ribao {{!}} Chinese newspaper|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-21}}</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 624]], a [[Douglas DC-6]], crashes near [[Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania]], killing 43 and injuring 84 people on board.
* [[June 18]]  
** [[Malayan Emergency]]: A [[state of emergency]] is declared in the [[Federation of Malaya]], due to a communist insurgency.
** Columbia Records introduces its {{frac|33|1|3}} rpm [[LP record|long playing phonograph]] format.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Congress]] recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00&nbsp;a.m.  (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
* [[June 21]]
** The [[Deutsche Mark]] becomes the official currency of the future [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]].
** The [[Manchester Baby]] becomes the first [[stored-program computer]] to successfully execute a program.
* [[June 22]] 
**The ship {{HMT|Empire Windrush||6}} brings more than 800 Afro-Caribbean immigrants to [[Tilbury]] near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
**[[David Lean]]'s ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'', based on [[Charles Dickens]]'s famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged [[antisemitism]] in depicting master criminal [[Fagin]], played by [[Alec Guinness]].
[[Image:C-54 landing at Tempelhof 1948.jpg|thumb|A [[C-54 Skymaster]] landing at [[Berlin Tempelhof Airport]]]]
* [[June 24]]
** [[Cold War]]: The [[Berlin Blockade]] begins.
** The first [[World Health Assembly]] of the [[World Health Organization]] is held in Geneva.
* [[June 26]]
** [[William Shockley]] files the original patent for the [[grown-junction transistor]], the first [[bipolar junction transistor]].
** The [[Berlin Blockade|Berlin Airlift]] begins.
* [[June 28]]
** The [[Cominform]] Resolution marks the beginning of the [[Informbiro period]] in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and the [[Soviet–Yugoslav split|Soviet/Yugoslav split]]. 
** The 6.8 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1948 Fukui earthquake|Fukui earthquake]] strikes [[Fukui, Fukui|Fukui]], Japan; 3,769 are killed, 22,203 injured.
** [[Lotte Holdings|Lotte Group]], a global [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] in [[Northeast Asia]] ([[South Korea]] and [[Japan]]), is founded.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}