Timeline June 1948

Events in June 1948 7

• 1864 – 1948 Louis Lumière (1864-1948) Died 6 June 1948, aged 83 Louis Lumière, who with his brother Auguste invented the cinématographe and screened some of the first motion pictures in 1895, died on June 6, 1948. The Lumière brothers' early films of everyday life are considered the birth of cinema as a public art form. Louis continued to work on photographic and film technology throughout his life.
• 1948 French Open 1948 Men: Frank Parker · Women: Nelly Landry
• 1948 – present Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher Creator Author of The Witcher saga, a global fantasy phenomenon.
• 1948 Columbia Records introduces the LP record Long-playing vinyl record debuts, transforming recorded music Columbia Records unveiled the 33⅓ rpm long-playing microgroove record on June 21, 1948, offering far longer playback than the standard 78 rpm shellac disc. The format allowed entire symphonies and albums to fit on a single disc side. The LP became the dominant format for recorded music for the next four decades.
• 1948 Berlin Blockade begins Soviet Union cuts off land access to West Berlin On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blocked all rail, road, and canal access to the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin in an attempt to force the Allies out of the city. The United States and Britain responded with the Berlin Airlift, flying in food and fuel around the clock. The standoff became one of the defining crises of the early Cold War.
• 1948 Yugoslavia expelled from the Cominform Tito-Stalin split fractures the communist bloc On June 28, 1948, the Communist Information Bureau expelled Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito refused to subordinate his government to Soviet direction. The break made Yugoslavia the first communist state to defy Moscow openly and pursue an independent, non-aligned path. It marked the first major fracture in the postwar communist bloc.
• 1948 The transistor is publicly announced Bell Labs unveils the device that will replace the vacuum tube On June 30, 1948, Bell Telephone Laboratories publicly announced the transistor, invented the previous December by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley. The tiny solid-state device could amplify and switch electronic signals far more efficiently than the vacuum tubes it would eventually replace. It became the foundation of virtually all modern electronics.