June 3: The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.

June 10: Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)

June 11: The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.

June 16: Communist guerrillas kill 3 rubber planters in Malaya. - Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.

June 17: A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

June 18: Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in the Malayan Union due to a communist insurgency.

June 18: LP record: Columbia Records introduced its long playing 33 1/3 rpm phonograph format.

June 20: The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).

June 21: The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.

June 22: The ship Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.

June 24: Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins. - The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.

June 26: William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.

June 28: The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split. - David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness. - 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan. 3,769 dead, 22,203 injured. (source: Wikipedia)