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| 1st Sound Barrier Derry, John |  |
| 15th Nov 1st to break the sound barrier |
| Alliance Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| London Informs the Cabinet Defence Committee the USA will be the major partner in conflicts |
| Anniversary George VI | |
| 26th April Celebrates 25 yrs of marriage to Elizabeth Bowes -Lyon |
| Apartheid Malan, Daniel Francois |  |
| 3rd June Forms the 1st all Afrikaner government, with a majority of 5 |
| 3rd June Pretoria Africa Forms the 1st all Afrikaner government, with a majority of 5 |
| Arrest List, Siegmund Wilhelm von |  |
| Imprisoned for war crimes in the Balkans during Word War II |
| Arrest Nathuran |  |
| 30th Jan Delhi Arrested for the assassination of Gandhi |
| Assassination Masaryk, Jan Garrigue |  |
| 10th Mar Prague Rep Dies by suicide or murder, then a Communist putsch leads to Soviet power in Czech |
| Assassination Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| 30th Jan Delhi Assassinated by a Hindu journalist |
| Assassination Godse, Nathuram | |
| 30th Jan Delhi Assassinates Gandhi |
| Assassination Nathuran | |
| 30th Jan Delhi Asssasinates Gandhi in the garden of Birla house by shooting 3 times at him |
| Assassination Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich |  |
| Assassinated during what in 1953 would become the "doctors' plot" |
| Award Order of the Garter Elizabeth II | |
| 23rd April London Awarded by George VI marking the 600th anniversary of the Order of the Garter |
| Balkan Federation Tito, Josip Broz |  |
| Eastern European countries drop the Balkan Federation after Russian opposition |
| Proposes a Balkan Federation including a customs union with Czech & Poland |
| Baptism Charles | |
| 15th Dec Buckingham Palace Prince Charles baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher |
| 15th Dec Buckingham Palace The Prince's godparents are King George VI, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, David Bowes -Lyon, Lady Brabourne, King Haakon VII of Norway (for whom the Earl of Athlone stood proxy), and Prince George of Greece |
| Battle of Faluja Nasser, Gamal Abdel |  |
| Faluja Receives serious wounds during the battle of Faluja |
| Battle of Huai Hai Kai-Shek, Chiang |  |
| Nov Huai Hai The Nationalists lose 600,000 men including 327,000 prisoners |
| Battle of Huai Hai Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Nov Huai Hai The Nationalist 7th & 2nd Army Groups are defeated along the Lung-Hai railway |
| Biography Churchill Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 19th April London Life Magazine begins a serialization of Churchill's life |
| Birth Arias, Olivia Trinidad | |
| 18th May Birth of Olivia Trinidad Arias |
| Birth Bonham, John Henry "Bonzo" | |
| 31st May Redditch Birth of John Bonham |
| Birth Charles | |
| 14th Nov Buckingham Palace Birth of Charles , Elizabeth I's 1st son & heir |
| Birth Elizabeth II | |
| 14th Nov London Birth of Charles , Elizabeth's 1st son & heir |
| Birth Iommi, Tony | |
| 19th Feb Birmingham Birth of Tony Iommi |
| Birth Plant, Robert Anthony | |
| 20th Aug West Bromwich Birth of Robert Anthony Plant |
| Birth Ward, Bill | |
| 5th May Birmingham Birth of Bill Ward |
| Birth Winwood, Steve | |
| 12th May Birmingham Birth of Steve Winwood |
| Birth Shcharansky, Anatoly | |
| Birth of Anatoly Shcharansky |
| Birth Cooper, Alice |  |
| 4th Feb Detroit Birth of Alice Cooper, Vincent Furnier |
| Bishop of Kitium Makarios, Mikhail Khristodolou Mouskos |  |
| Kitium Appointed Bishop of Kitium |
| Blockade of Berlin Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| Berlin During the Berlin crisis makes paper plans for war |
| Berlin The Russians blockade Berlin, the west responds with an airlift |
| 26th June Berlin Demands Russia lift it's bloackade |
| Blockade of Berlin Bevin, Ernest | |
| 24th June Berlin Announces the British will not withdraw from Berlin |
| 24th June Berlin The west announces a counter-blockade from west to east |
| Blockade of Berlin Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 26th June Berlin Makes a speech saying the crisis is potentially as serious as the Munich conference |
| Blockade of Berlin Stalin, Joseph | |
| Berlin Trys to push the Allies out of their zones by blockading Berlin, June 1948-Spring 1949 |
| 1st April Berlin General Clay orders a "baby airlift" into Berlin of enough supplies for 45 days |
| 24th June Berlin Announces the blockade & imposes a total road & rail blockade in & out of Berlin |
| 24th June Berlin Russia imposes a blockade on Berlin |
| 24th June Berlin Russian power cuts in west Berlin & a halt of all railway traffic |
| 24th June Berlin The west announces a counter-blockade from west to east |
| Blockade of Berlin Clay, Lucius | |
| 24th June Berlin Announces only a war can drive the USAout of Berlin |
| Burial Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand | |
| 31st Jan Delhi Gandhi is buried |
| Capture of Canton Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Shanghai Shanghai surrenders to the Communists who then gain control of Canton |
| Capture of Chunking Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Nov Chungking Chunking surrenders to the Communists |
| Capture of Czech |
