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1948 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1948 – The British railway network is nationalised to form British Railways.
•  February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  March 25, 1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
•  April 1, 1948 – Cold War: Berlin Airlift– Military forces, under direction of the Russian-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
•  June 25, 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
•  June 26, 1948 – Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
•  September 17, 1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
•  October 29, 1948 – Safsaf massacre.
•  December 1, 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.
•  December 28, 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.

•  January 27, 1948 – Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
•  March 8, 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
•  March 28, 1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
•  May 30, 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
•  May 31, 1948 – Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress and broadcaster
•  August 19, 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor
•  October 25, 1948 – Dan Issel, American basketball player
•  December 15, 1948 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
•  December 21, 1948 – Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
•  December 24, 1948 – Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player