What Day of the Week

1948 Calendar

Are you not curious to discover some fun facts about your birthday? Find out ‘what happened on my birthday’ and what was the number one song on your day of birth. Know the meaning of your special day and who shares your birthday! (Sponsored link)

•  February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  March 17, 1948 – Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
•  May 1, 1948 – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
•  May 23, 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.
•  June 25, 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
•  June 26, 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
•  June 28, 1948 – The Cominform circulates the “Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia”; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
•  September 12, 1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
•  December 11, 1948 – The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.
•  December 26, 1948 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.

•  January 1, 1948 – Joe Petagno, American artist
•  January 12, 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
•  January 16, 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
•  February 14, 1948 – Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
•  March 8, 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
•  May 31, 1948 – John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
•  June 29, 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
•  July 20, 1948 – Muse Watson, American actor
•  November 9, 1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer
•  December 6, 1948 – Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver