1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
Beneš's Resignation
Beneš resigned on 2 June and was succeeded by Gottwald twelve days later.
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- Pope John Paul II
Successfully defended his doctoral thesis
He resided in the Belgian Pontifical College during this time, under presidency of Mgr Maximilien de Furstenberg. Wojtyła earned a licence in July 1947, passed his doctoral exam on 14 June 1948, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce (The Doctrine of Faith in St. John of the Cross) in philosophy on 19 June 1948.
- Computer
The world's First Stored-Program Computer
The Manchester Baby was the world's first stored-program computer. 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. It was designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first random-access digital storage device. Although the computer was considered "small and primitive" by the standards of its time, it was the first working machine to contain all of the elements essential to a modern electronic computer.
- Harry S. Truman
The Soviet Union blocked access to the three Western-held sectors of Berlin
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to the three Western-held sectors of Berlin.
- Harry S. Truman
The Allies initiated the Berlin Airlift
On June 25, the Allies initiated the Berlin Airlift, a campaign to deliver food, coal and other supplies using military aircraft on a massive scale. Nothing like it had ever been attempted before, and no single nation had the capability, either logistically or materially, to accomplish it.
- 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
Beneš's Resignation
Beneš resigned on 2 June and was succeeded by Gottwald twelve days later.
- Pope John Paul II
Successfully defended his doctoral thesis
He resided in the Belgian Pontifical College during this time, under presidency of Mgr Maximilien de Furstenberg. Wojtyła earned a licence in July 1947, passed his doctoral exam on 14 June 1948, and successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce (The Doctrine of Faith in St. John of the Cross) in philosophy on 19 June 1948.
- Computer
The world's First Stored-Program Computer
The Manchester Baby was the world's first stored-program computer. 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. It was designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first random-access digital storage device. Although the computer was considered "small and primitive" by the standards of its time, it was the first working machine to contain all of the elements essential to a modern electronic computer.
- Harry S. Truman
The Soviet Union blocked access to the three Western-held sectors of Berlin
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to the three Western-held sectors of Berlin.
- Harry S. Truman
The Allies initiated the Berlin Airlift
On June 25, the Allies initiated the Berlin Airlift, a campaign to deliver food, coal and other supplies using military aircraft on a massive scale. Nothing like it had ever been attempted before, and no single nation had the capability, either logistically or materially, to accomplish it.