The Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from 24 June 1948 to 11 May 1949.

After the Marshall Plan, the introduction of a new currency to Western Germany to replace the debased Reichsmark and massive electoral losses for communist parties in 1946, in June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

In his diary on June 1948, Chiang wrote that the KMT had failed, not because of external enemies but because of rot from within.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

Garnet Edward " Ace " Bailey ( June 13, 1948 – September 11, 2001 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and scout who was a member of Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup winning teams.

The recovery was accelerated by the currency reform of June 1948, U. S. gifts of $ 1. 4 billion as part of the Marshall Plan, the breaking down of old trade barriers and traditional practices, and the opening of the global market.

On 21 June 1948, the Western Allies withdrew the old currency and replaced it with the new Deutsche Mark at the rate of 1 new per 10 old.

This was the Berlin Blockade, which lasted from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949.

* Radio-Craft — July 1929 to June 1948 — became Radio-Electronics

It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

In Berlin, after citizens strongly rejected communist candidates in an election, in June 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the portion of Berlin not under Soviet control, cutting off all supply of food and other items.

Martin & Lewis made many appearances on early live television, their first on the June 20, 1948 debut broadcast of Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan on the CBS TV Network ( later The Ed Sullivan Show ).

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

* Order of the Red Banner, six times (№ 47-26 June 1919, № 629 / 2 от апреля 1921 года, № 27 / 3-2 December 1925, № 5 / 4-22 February 1930, № 1 / 5-3 November 1944, № 1 / 6 от 24 June 1948 )

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

The town was not a field of battle during 1948 Arab-Israeli War before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army had entered Nazareth.

Prices in 1948 were 9950 DM for the Kapitan and 6, 785 DM for the Olympia ( the Deutschmark having replaced the Reichsmark on 20 June 1948 ).

The U-Bahn and S-Bahn were partially operational again from 2 June 1946, fully from 16 November 1947 ( although repairs were not completed until May 1948 ) and trams by 1952.

The first 356 was road certified in Austria on June 8, 1948, and used many Volkswagen parts for manufacturing economy.

Ruth Benedict ( born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 ) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

The Church revised and expanded this document in June, removing acknowledgment of such sentiment as a matter of current church practice, instead declaring that the church's current stands are not anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish — in part because they reflect criticisms of Israel meted by Jews and Israelis.

Following the armistice in June 1940, Tunisia came under Vichy's rule, and anti-Jewish legislation was implemented.

In June 1780 Amherst oversaw the British army as they suppressed the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London: after the outbreak of rioting Amherst deployed the small London garrison of Horse and Foot Guards as best as he could but was hindered by the reluctance of the civil magistrates to authorise decisive action against the rioters.

On 1 – 2 June 1941, the two-day Farhud pogrom in Iraq, in which " rioters murdered between 150 and 180 Jews, injured 600 others, and raped an undetermined number of women.

They derived their name from Christopher Hibbert's 1958 book on the Gordon Riots of June 1780, in which rioters daubed the slogan " His Majesty King Mob "' on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building.

With armed insurrection fully in place in the town by 4 June, the rioters had commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and literally dyed in blood.

So much was this the case that during the " No Popery " riots of June, 1780, a post-chaise conveying four of the rioters, and bearing the insignia of the mob, drove the whole way from London to Bath, where Walmesley then resided.

They organized Malta ’ s first recorded strike at the Royal shipyards in 1920, and were significantly amongst the rioters against the British colonial government on 7 June 1919, riots which led to the granting of Malta ’ s first self-government.

In June 2011, further imagery was added relating to recent events, including the conflict in Libya and views of outside 10 Downing Street.

In the last six months of the Clinton administration, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that the term " rogue state " would be abolished in June 2000, in favour of " states of concern ," as three of the rogue states ( Libya, Iran and North Korea ) no longer met the four transgressions which defined a rogue state.

* June 7-Muammar Gaddafi, former dictator of Libya ( d. 2011 )

* June 18 – George of Antioch conquers Tripoli, Libya for the king of Sicily.

In June 2005, it was revealed that archaeologists from the University of Hamburg had been working along the coast of Libya when they uncovered a 30 ft length of five colourful mosaics created during the 1st or 2nd century.

( A vote by the CCN on June 30, 1987, actually supported union between Libya and Algeria, but the proposal was later retracted by the FLN Central Committee after the heads of state failed to agree.

; 1967 June 5 – 1967 June 10: Six-Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, assisted by forces from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan and the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israel.

After the death of Marshal Italo Balbo in a friendly fire incident on 28 June 1940, Graziani took his place as Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa and as the Governor General of Libya.

On Friday, June 3, 2011, the US House of Representatives voted to rebuke President Obama for maintaining an American presence in the NATO operations in Libya, which they considered a violation of the War Powers Resolution.

* J. Christopher Stevens, American diplomat and lawyer who served as the U. S. Ambassador to Libya from June 2012 to September 2012.

Italo Balbo ( Ferrara, June 6, 1896 – Tobruk, June 28, 1940 ) was an Italian Blackshirt ( Camicie Nere, or CCNN ) leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force ( Maresciallo dell ' Aria ), Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI ), and the " heir apparent " to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

At the time of the Italian declaration of war on 10 June 1940, Balbo was the Governor-General of Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI ).

Free French French Foreign Legion | Foreign legionnaires charging an Axis powers | Axis stronghold during the Battle of Bir Hakeim ( Libya, June 1942 ).

In June 2011, McKinney visited Libya and accused NATO and the United States of trying to assassinate Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem () ( 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012 ) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya ( prime minister ) from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi.

The division remained as part of the British Eighth Army to the end of World War II in 1945 during which it fought in the Battle of Greece ( March – April 1941 ), the Battle of Crete ( May 1941 ), Operation Crusader ( November – December 1941 ), Minqar Qaim ( June 1942 ), First Battle of El Alamein ( July 1942 ), Second Battle of El Alamein ( October – November 1942 ), Libya and Tunisia ( December 1942 – May 1943 ), the Sangro ( October – December 1943 ), Battle of Monte Cassino ( February – March 1944 ), Central Italy ( May – December 1944 ), and the Adriatic Coast ( April – May 1945 ).

In October 1911, Italy had launched an invasion against Ottoman Libya, but were unable to reach Misrata until June.

* Libya: 22 March 1942 to 21 June 1942

In June 2012, members of the Metropolitan Police visited Libya as part of the investigation into the unsolved killing.

In June 2007, Wark clashed with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in an interview over his response to a memorandum of understanding between the UK Government and Libya regarding prisoner exchanges.

* June 27 – Two Palestinians of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( PFLP-EO ) and two West Germans – Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann – from the Revolutionary Cells group hijack Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300B4-203 with 256 other people on board on a flight from Athens, Greece, to Paris, France, and force it to fly to Benghazi, Libya, where they release one passenger.

This force remained as part of the British Eighth Army to the end of World War II in 1945 during which it fought in the Battle of Greece ( March – April 1941 ), the Battle of Crete ( May ), Operation Crusader ( November – December ), Minqar Qaim ( June 1942 ), the Battle of El Alamein ( July – November ), Libya and Tunisia ( December – May 1943 ), the Sangro ( October – December ), the Battle of Monte Cassino ( February – March 1944 ), the Central Italy ( May – December ), and the Adriatic Coast ( April – May 1945 ).