1st » Cold War: Berlin Blockade e.g Berlin Airlift — Military forces, under direction of the Soviet Union called Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
1st » Faroe Islands gain self-governance named autonomy from Denmark.
3rd » President of the United States or President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
3rd » In Jeju-do e.g Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
7th » The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
7th » A Buddhism or Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
9th » Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi (group) named Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, Deir Yassin massacre named killing over 100.
13th » The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.