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Year by Year: 1900-2008	View a 1948 calendar

World Events

• Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu militant (Jan. 30).
  
  
• Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia (Feb. 23-25). Background: The Cold War
  
  
• Organization of American States (OAS) Charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia (April 30).
  
  
• Nation of Israel proclaimed; British end Mandate at midnight; Arab armies attack (May 14). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
  
  
• Berlin Airlift begins (June 21); ends May 12, 1949.
  
  
• Stalin and Tito break (June 28).
  
  
• United States of Indonesia established as Dutch and Indonesians settle conflict (Dec. 27).
  
  

U.S. Events

• Truman ends racial segregation in the U.S. military.
  
  
• Margaret Sanger founds the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
  
  
• Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

1948 Summer Olympics

1948 Winter Olympics

Entertainment

Events

• The Hollywood Ten, a group of writers, producers and directors called as witnesses in the House Committee's Investigation of Un-American Activities, are jailed for contempt of Congress when they refuse to disclose if they were or were not Communists.
• Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP ("long playing") record at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It allows listeners to enjoy an unprecedented 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the standard 78 rpm record.

Movies

• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Hamlet, I Remember Mama, Johnny Belinda, The Snake Pit

Books

• Albert Camus, The Plague
• Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
• A. C. Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
• Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
• Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos
• Theodore Roethke, The Lost Sun and Other Poems
• Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar
• William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Part Two

Science

• George A. Gamow (US) puts forth the "Big Bang" theory to explain the origin of the universe. Background: Astronomy
• Dennis Gabors of England develops the theoretical basis for holography.
• Edwin Land (US) invents the Polaroid Land camera.
• Physicist Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger (US) develop a theory of quantum electrodynamics.
• Norbert Wiener of MIT coins the term cybernetics.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) is established under UN auspices.

Deaths

• D.W. Griffith
  
  
• Babe Ruth
  
  
• Orville Wright
  
  

Year by Year: 1900-2008

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