1948 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1945 1946 1947 – 1948 – 1949 1950 1951

1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Movies Released
New Books
Hit Songs
Images for kids
See also

Events

January 1 – Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution.
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
January 17 – Truce between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java
January 26 – Teigin poison case – Man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 out of 15 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced for the crime.
January 30 – Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist.
January 30 – 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
February 1 – Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
February 4 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. King George VI becomes King of Ceylon.
February 18 – Éamon de Valera, head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach of Éire (formerly called the Irish Free State) by President O'Kelly.
February 24 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia.
Works begins on the Crazy Horse Memorial.
May 13 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
April-May – Israel's independence day.

Births

January 14 – Carl Weathers, actor
January 14 – T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
January 16 – John Carpenter, director
January 24 – Elliot Abrams, deputy national security adviser
February 5 – Barbara Hershey, actress
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, actress
March 22 – Andrew Lloyd Webber
May 12 – Ivan Kral, Czech-American musician
May 13 – Leon Coetzee, loverboy and attorney
June 22 – Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, producer
July 30 – Jean Reno, actor
August 30 – Victor Skumin, professor, philosopher, writer.
September 29 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
October 9 – Jackson Browne, songwriter
October 17 – Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
October 25 – Diana Burrell, English composer
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
December 3 – Ozzy Osbourne, singer/songwriter
December 10- Abu Abbas, terrorist
December 27 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor

Deaths

January 21 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
January 30 – Mohandas Gandhi, Leader of Indian Non-Violent Independence movement (assassinated)
January 30 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, co-inventor of the airplane
February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
February 11 – Sergey Eisenstein, movie director
March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist
March 10 – Zelda Fitzgerald (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
March 10 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and writer
April 9 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
April 17 – Suzuki Kantaro, Japanese admiral and prime minister
May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
May 28 – Unity Mitford, British friend of Hitler
June 25 – William C. Lee, Maj, General United States Army (b. 1895)
July 23 – David Wark Griffith, movie director
August 12 – Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
August 16 – Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General and founder of Pakistan.
October 24 – Franz Lehár, composer
November 28 – D.D. Sheehan first independent Labour MP. in Ireland
December 23 – Kenji Doihara, Koki Hirota, Seishiro Itagaki, Heitarō Kimura, Iwane Matsui, Akira Mutō, and Hideki Tōjō, Japanese war leaders (hanged)
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer (b. 1885)

Movies Released

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Scott of the Antarctic

New Books

Ape and Essence – Aldous Huxley
Catalina – W. Somerset Maugham
Concluding – Henry Green
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Foundling – Georgette Heyer
The Golden Warrior – Hope Muntz
Guard of Honor – James Gould Cozzens
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Hearth and the Eagle – Anya Seton
The House of Sleep – Anna Kavan
Ides of March – Thornton Wilder
John Aubrey and His Friends – Anthony Powell
Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
Last Of The Conquerors – William Gardner Smith
The Living Is Easy – Dorothy West
The Mask of Circe – C. L. Moore
Melissa (novel) – Taylor Caldwell
My Glorious Brothers – Howard Fast
Parris Mitchell of King's Row – Henry Bellamann
Raintree County – Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Seraph On The Sewanee – Zora Neale Hurston
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose – Dr. Seuss
The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pène du Bois
The White Goddess – Robert Graves
The World is Not Enough – Zoe B. Oldenbourg
The Young Lions – Irwin Shaw

Hit Songs

"Buttons and Bows" – Dinah Shore
"Confess" – Doris Day & Buddy Clark
"Confess" – Patti Page (the first multi-tracked song)
"Deck Of Cards" – Phil Harris
"Don't Have To Tell Nobody" – Frankie Laine
"Gloria" – The Mills Brothers
"I Love You So Much (It Hurts Me)" – The Mills Brothers
"I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" – Frankie Laine
"I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" – Art Mooney
"I'm My Own Grandpa" – Guy Lombardo & The Guy Lombardo Trio
"Is It True What They Say About Dixie" – Al Jolson & The Mills Brothers
"It's Magic" – Doris Day
"Little White Lies" – Dick Haymes & The Four Hits And A Miss
"Love Somebody" – Doris Day & Buddy Clark
"Mañana" – Peggy Lee
"Monday Again" – Frankie Laine
"My Happiness" – The Pied Pipers
"My Happiness" – Jon and Sondra Steele
"Nature Boy" – Nat King Cole
"Nature Boy" – Sarah Vaughan
"On A Slow Boat To China" – Kay Kyser, Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
"Red River Valley" – Jo Stafford
"Red Roses For A Blue Lady" – Vaughn Monroe
"Rosetta" – Frankie Laine
"So Tired" – Russ Morgan
"Someday You'll Want Me To Want You" – Vaughn Monroe
"The Things We Did Last Summer" – Georgia Gibbs
"A Tree In the Meadow" – Margaret Whiting
"Twelfth Street Rag" – Pee Wee Hunt
"Underneath the Arches" – Andrews Sisters
"What Could Be Sweeter" – Frankie Laine
"Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" – Georgia Gibbs
"Woody Woodpecker" – Kay Kyser
"You Call Everybody Darlin'" – Al Trace
"You Can't Be True, Dear" – Ken Griffin

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See also

In Spanish: 1948 para niños

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