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1948 Calendar

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•  February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  February 21, 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
•  April 7, 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
•  April 13, 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
•  May 16, 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
•  May 18, 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
•  July 14, 1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
•  July 16, 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
•  August 10, 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
•  December 30, 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

•  February 28, 1948 – Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
•  March 12, 1948 – James Taylor, American musician
•  June 12, 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer
•  June 19, 1948 – Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
•  June 23, 1948 – Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
•  July 4, 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician
•  July 13, 1948 – Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress
•  September 17, 1948 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
•  October 13, 1948 – Ted Poe, American politician
•  October 23, 1948 – Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur