What day of the week was June 26, 1948?

The day of the week June 26th, 1948 fell on was a Saturday.

Lilian Velez the Filipino actress and singer (b. 1924) died on this day in 1948.

The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin. William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor the the first bipolar junction transistor. Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.