| Date | Event |
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1948 |
Mark Abel Was Born |
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1948 |
Thomas Albert Was Born |
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1948 |
Francisco Alonso Died |
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1948 |
Claude Baker Was Born |
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1948 |
Josef Bardanashvili Was Born |
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1948 |
Gisèle Barreau Was Born |
|
1948 |
Adrien Basin Was Born |
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July
21
1948 |
Anders Berglund Was Born |
|
1948 |
Michael Berkeley Was Born |
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1948 |
Chester Biscardi Was Born |
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1948 |
Glenn Branca Was Born |
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1948 |
Diana Burrell Was Born |
|
1948 |
Oscar Lorenzo Fernández Died |
|
1948 |
Richard Festinger Was Born |
|
1948 |
William Arms Fisher Died |
|
1948 |
Steven Gerber Was Born |
|
1948 |
Umberto Giordano Died |
|
1948 |
Jani Golob Was Born |
|
1948 |
Uzeyir Hajibeyov Died |
|
1948 |
Jan Hammer Was Born |
|
1948 |
Siegmund von Hausegger Died |
|
1948 |
Philippe Hersant Was Born |
|
October
22
1948 |
Bo Holten Was Born |
|
1948 |
Jean Michel Jarre Was Born |
|
1948 |
Franz Lehár Died |
|
March
22
1948 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber Was Born |
|
1948 |
Marvin Peterson Was Born |
|
1948 |
John Blackwood McEwen Died |
|
1948 |
Manuel Ponce Died |
|
1948 |
Maui Dalvanius Prime Was Born |
|
1948 |
Ray Reach Was Born |
|
1948 |
Haskell Small Was Born |
|
1948 |
Dmitri Smirnov Was Born |
|
1948 |
Jim Steinman Was Born |
|
1948 |
George Strong Died |
|
1948 |
Jukka Tiensuu Was Born |
|
1948 |
Julia Tsenova Was Born |
|
1948 |
Franco Vittadini Died |
|
1948 |
Claude Vivier Was Born |
|
1948 |
Dan Welcher Was Born |
|
1948 |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Died |
|
1948 |
Hermann Zilcher Died |
|
January
01
1948 |
The Constitution Of Italy Comes Into Force |
|
January
01
1948 |
British Railways Is State Owned |
|
1948 |
Ethel Barns Died |
|
1948 |
Conrad Cummings Was Born |
|
1948 |
Yakov Kazyansky Was Born |
|
January
04
1948 |
Burma Gains Independence From The UK |
|
January
07
1948 |
Mantell Crashes While Supposively Chasing UFO |
|
January
21
1948 |
Adoption Of Flag Of Quebec |
|
January
29
1948 |
The Pakistan Socialist Party Is Founded |
|
January
30
1948 |
Gandhi Assassinated By Hindu Godse |
|
February
04
1948 |
Ceylon Becomes Independent Of Britain |
|
February
08
1948 |
N. Korea: Creation Of Korean's People's Army |
|
February
19
1948 |
Conference Convenes In Calcutta |
|
February
21
1948 |
NASCAR Is Incorporated |
|
February
22
1948 |
Communist Revolution In Czechoslovakia |
|
February
25
1948 |
Communists Take Control Of Chzechoslovak Government |
|
February
28
1948 |
Gold Coast Shooting Causes Accra Riots |
|
March
17
1948 |
France And U.K. Sign Brussels Treaty |
|
March
18
1948 |
Soviet Consultants Leave Yugoslavia In The Sign |
|
March
20
1948 |
First U.S. Classical Music Telecasts Air |
|
March
25
1948 |
First Successful Tornado Forecast |
|
March
27
1948 |
Korean Second Congress Workers' Party Convened |
|
April
01
1948 |
Faroe Islands Gain Autonomy From Denmark |
|
April
01
1948 |
Soviets Establish Land Blockade In Berlin |
|
April
03
1948 |
President Truman Signs Marshall Plan For Foreign Aid |
|
April
03
1948 |
Jeju Massacre Ushers In Civil War |
|
April
07
1948 |
United Nations Establishes World Health Organization |
|
April
07
1948 |
Monastery Burns In China Kills 20 Monks |
|
April
09
1948 |
Assasination Of Jorge Gaitan's Provokes Riot In Bogota |
|
April
09
1948 |
Paramilitary Groups Kill Over 100 Near Jerusalem |
|
April
13
1948 |
Arabs Kill Hadassah Hospital Staff Near Jerusalem |
|
April
19
1948 |
Burma Joins The United Nations |
|
April
22
1948 |
Haifa, Israel Captured From Arab Forces |
|
April
28
1948 |
Igor Stravinsky Premiers Ballet Orpheus In NYC |
|
April
30
1948 |
Organization Of America States Founded, Bogota, Colombia |
|
May
01
1948 |
North Korea Is Established, Il-sung New Leader |
|
May
03
1948 |
The U.S Supreme Court Rules In Shelley V. Kraemer |
|
May
07
1948 |
Council Of Europe Founded During Hague Congress |
|
May
09
1948 |
Czechoslovakia's Constitution Comes Into Effect |
|
May
10
1948 |
China Grants Chiang Kai-shek Extended Powers |
|
May
12
1948 |
Netherlands: Queen Wilhelmina Cedes Throne |
|
May
13
1948 |
Kfar Etzion Massacre By Arab Irregulars |
|
May
14
1948 |
Israel Declared Independent State |
|
May
15
1948 |
Israel Invasion By Arab States Begins War |
|
May
18
1948 |
Yuan Of China Convenes In Nanking |
|
May
20
1948 |
Kai-shek First President Of China |
|
May
23
1948 |
Wasson, US Gonsul-General Assassinated In Jerusalem |
|
May
24
1948 |
Egypt Captures The Israeli Kibbutz |
|
May
26
1948 |
Congress Establishes The Civial Air Patrol As Auxiliary Of USAF |
|
May
28
1948 |
Malan Elected Prime Minister Of South Africa |
|
May
29
1948 |
United Nations Created |
|
May
30
1948 |
Fifteen Dead As Columbia River Floods |
|
June
07
1948 |
Czechoslovakia Becomes Communist State |
|
June
08
1948 |
Debut Of Texaco Star Theater; Berle Hosts |
|
June
09
1948 |
Foundation Of UNESCO International Archives Council |
|
June
16
1948 |
Communists Kill Three, Malaya Declares Emergency |
|
June
20
1948 |
Toast Of The Town Makes TV Debut |
|
June
21
1948 |
Columbia's Long-playing Record Album Demo |
|
June
24
1948 |
Soviet Union Cuts Off Berlin Travel |
|
June
25
1948 |
The Berlin Airlift Begins |
|
June
26
1948 |
Airlift To Berlin Starts By Western Allies |
|
June
26
1948 |
Shockley Files Grown Junction Transistor Patent |
|
June
26
1948 |
Shirley Jacksons Lottery Short Story |
|
June
28
1948 |
Yugoslavia Expelled From Communist Bloc |
|
June
28
1948 |
Dick Turpin Beats Vince Hawkins In Birminham |
|
July
01
1948 |
State Bank Of Pakistani Inaugurated By Quaid-i-Azam |
|
July
05
1948 |
National Public Health Systems Created In UK |
|
July
08
1948 |
USAF Accepts First Females Into WAF |
|
July
12
1948 |
Palestinians Expelled From Lod And Ramia |
|
July
14
1948 |
Togliatti Shot And Wounded Near Italian Parliament |
|
July
16
1948 |
Nazareth Taken By Israeli Forces In 1948 |
|
July
16
1948 |
Miss Macao Is The First Commercial Hijacking |
|
July
17
1948 |
The South Korean Constitution Is Proclaimed |
|
July
26
1948 |
Truman Signs Executive Order 9981 |
|
July
28
1948 |
Police Flying Squad Foils A Bullion |
|
July
29
1948 |
London Summer Olympics Are Held |
|
July
31
1948 |
JFK International Airport Is Dedicated |
|
July
31
1948 |
USS Nevada Sunk By Aerial Torpedo |
|
August
03
1948 |
Alger Hiss Acussed Of Communist Spy |
|
August
10
1948 |
Candid Microphone Becomes Candid Camera On TV |
|
August
12
1948 |
USS Nevada Is Struck From The Naval Record |
|
August
15
1948 |
Korea South Of 38th Parallel North |
|
August
18
1948 |
Australian Cricket Team Defeats England |
|
August
23
1948 |
World Council Of Churches Is Formed |
|
August
25
1948 |
First Confrontation Day Televised Congressional Hearing |
|
September
04
1948 |
Netherlands Queen Wilhelmina Unhealthy; Abdicates |
|
September
05
1948 |
Robert Schuman Helps To End World War II |
|
September
06
1948 |
Juliana Becomes Queen Of Netherlands |
|
September
09
1948 |
Kim Il-sung Establishes People's Republic |
|
September
12
1948 |
Indian Army Invades Hyderabad |
|
September
13
1948 |
Patel Ordered Army Into Hyderabad To Integrate |
|
September
13
1948 |
Margaret Chase Smith Elected Senator |
|
September
15
1948 |
F-86 Aircraft Sets Speed Record At 1,080 Km/h |
|
September
17
1948 |
Count Bernadotte Was Assassinated By The Lehi |
|
September
17
1948 |
Nizam Of Hyderabad Joins Indian Union |
|
September
18
1948 |
Nizam's Army Surrenders To India |
|
September
18
1948 |
Communist Madiun Create Uprising In Indies |
|
September
18
1948 |
Smith Of Maine First Woman Elected |
|
September
24
1948 |
The Honda Motor Company Is Founded |
|
October
05
1948 |
110,000 Died In Ashgabat Earthquake |
|
October
27
1948 |
Senghor Founds Senegalese Democratic Bloc |
|
October
28
1948 |
Muller Awarded Nobel Prize For Work On DDT |
|
October
29
1948 |
Israeli Soldiers Capture Safsaf, Massacre Villagers |
|
November
01
1948 |
6,000 People Die In Chinese Ship Explosion |
|
November
01
1948 |
Athenagoras I Enthroned |
|
November
06
1948 |
Su Yu Launches Offensive Toward Xuzhou |
|
November
12
1948 |
7 Japanese Officials Are Sentenced To Death |
|
December
01
1948 |
Australian Unsolved Case Of Taman Shud |
|
December
10
1948 |
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Adopted By UN |
|
December
11
1948 |
The United Nations Mediates Arab-Israeli War |
|
December
12
1948 |
Scots Guards Kill 24 In Malaya |
|
December
23
1948 |
Convicted Japanese War Criminals Executed In Tokyo |
|
December
26
1948 |
Cardinal Mindszenty Serves In Hungary |
|
December
28
1948 |
Miami: DC-3 Airliner Disappears |
|
December
30
1948 |
Kiss Me, Kate Wins A Tony Award |