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Revision as of 03:29, 5 January 2003 by Jazz77 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 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
- November 15 - Louis Stephen Saint Laurent becomes Canada's twelfth prime minister.
- December 10, United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- December 30 - The play Kiss Me Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances.
- Porsche is founded.
- Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
- Casimir effect discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir
- Tunnel of Vielha is opened in Val d'Aran, Spanish Pyrenees.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1948 in film
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart
- Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, starring Jimmy Stewart
- 1948 in literature
- 1948 in music
- Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record
- 1948 in sports
- 1948 Winter Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland
- 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom
- Baseball World Series: Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves
- 1948 in television
- CBS begins network programming.
- ABC opens it's first television station in New York
- June 20 - Toast of the Town, with Ed Sullivan, premieres on CBS, with guests Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
- June 21 - The first network telecast of political conventions from Philadelphia.
- July 30 - Professional wrestling premieres in prime-time on the DuMont network.
- August 10 - Candid Camera' debuts on ABC.
- August 15 - The first network nightly newscast, CBS-TV News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards.
- September - Milton Berle becomes the first television star, with Texaco Star Theatre on NBC
- Television manufacturing begins in Canada
Births:
- February 11 - Sue Bernard, Playboy magazine's playmate for December 1966
- March 20 - Bobby Orr, ice hockey player
- May 31 - John Bonham ("Bonzo") (drummer)
- June 2 - Todd Rundgren, singer and producer
- June 13 - Marc Flanagan, television writer and producer
- July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
- October 9 - Jackson Browne, musician
- November 14 - Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
- December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor
Deaths:
- January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician
- February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director.
- July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director.