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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 - 1948 - 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
Events:
- February 11 - John Costello follows Eamon De Valera as premier of Ireland.
- May 14 Israel established as an independent state.
- November - Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey in the U.S. presidential election
- December 10, United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Porsche is founded.
- Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
- Casimir effect discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir
Births:
- February 11 - Sue Bernard, Playboy magazine's playmate for December 1966
- May 31: John Bonham ("Bonzo") (drummer)
- June 13-Marc Flanagan,television writer and producer
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- October 9 - Jackson Browne, musician
- December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor
Deaths:
- January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician
- February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director.
- July 23 - D. W. Griffith, director.
Sports:
- 1948 Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland
- 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, UK
- Baseball World Series: Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves
- Physics - Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- Chemistry - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
- Medicine - Paul Hermann Müller
- Literature - Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Peace - Not awarded.
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