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.

In memory of it all, B. P., 13 May 1948.

May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948

A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948.

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

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

The British withdrawal was finally completed in May 1948.

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

On May 14, 1948, the last British forces left through Haifa.

On May 29, 1948, the British initiated United Nations Security Council Resolution 50 and declared an arms embargo on the region.

The Israeli Declaration of Independence (, Hakhrazat HaAtzma ' ut or Megilat HaAtzma ' ut ), was made on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708 ), the day before the British Mandate was due to expire.

On 12 May 1948, the Minhelet HaAm (, lit.

The invitation to the ceremony, dated 13 May 1948.

The Soviet Union was the first nation to fully recognize Israel de jure on 17 May 1948, followed by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Ireland, and South Africa.

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

By the summer of 1947, however, the KSČ's popularity had significantly dwindled, and most observers believed Gottwald would be turned out of office at the elections due for May 1948.

The Mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948, and the 1948 Arab – Israeli War began.

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.

In May 1948, a new constitution for the territory entered into force, allowing the largest amount of autonomy allowed under the Dutch constitution of 1922.

Discounting Peary's disputed claim, the first men to set foot at the North Pole were a Soviet party including geophysicists Mikhail Ostrekin and Pavel Senko, oceanographers Mikhail Somov and Pavel Gordienko, and other scientists and flight crew ( 24 people in total ) of Aleksandr Kuznetsov's Sever-2 expedition ( March – May 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.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

On May 30, 1966, she and Carl Thomas Dean ( in Nashville, Tennessee ) were married in Ringgold, Georgia.

In May 1941, Thomas and Caitlin moved to London, leaving their son with his grandmother at Blashford in Hampshire.

While Oxford was under house arrest in May, Thomas Stocker dedicated to him his Divers Sermons of Master John Calvin, stating in the dedication that he had been " brought up in your Lordship's father's house ".

* 3 May: Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke

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* Essay on Doctor Atomic by Thomas May

* Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford executed May 12, 1641

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

In early 1533, Henry married Anne Boleyn, who was pregnant with his child, and in May Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally declared the marriage with Catherine void, and the marriage to Anne valid.

Thomas Alva Edison conceived the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to " play back " recorded telegraph messages and to automate speech sounds for transmission by telephone.

The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS ( 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist ( anatomist ), known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Thomas Hare ( born in England, 28 March 1806 ; died 6 May 1891 ) was a British proponent of electoral reform.

Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. ( May 29, 1963 – September 11, 2001 ) was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California.

Thomas Gainsborough ( christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788 ) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Abby May applied as his teaching assistant ; instead, the couple were engaged, without consent of the family.

With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.

Abby May thought Lane purposely sabotaged her family.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

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The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and from a local landowner.

She left for Paris with cousin May Whitlock, forsaking several suitors and overcoming the objections of her family.

Founding drummer Hester left in May 1994, citing family reasons, but briefly returned for their Farewell to the World concerts in Melbourne and Sydney in 1996.

Gini was born on May 23, 1884, in Motta di Livenza, near Treviso, into an old landed family.

Beatty and Ethel married 22 May 1901 at the registry office, St. George's, Hannover Square, London with no family attending.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

In attempting to arrest members of the Kent family in County Cork on 2 May, a Head Constable was shot dead in a gun battle.

That same year in May, in the USA, Eugene Augustin Lauste devised his Eidoloscope for the Latham family.

Khalid al-Mihdhar was born on May 16, 1975 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to a prominent family, related to the Quraysh tribe of Mecca.

In May she went public with this information in order to highlight the struggle faced by so many other successful women and to dispel false rumors that had been very painful for her friends and family.

On 21 April, in the Commons the Bill went virtually unopposed ( 204 in favour, 59 opposed, and 250 abstained ), the Lords acquiesced, and Charles, fearing for the safety of his family, signed on 10 May.