1948 Calendar
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1948 Historical Event(s)
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.
February 25, 1948
– The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
March 17, 1948
– Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
May 26, 1948
– The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
June 26, 1948
– William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
August 25, 1948
– The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: “Confrontation Day” between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
September 12, 1948
– Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah’s death.
October 5, 1948
– The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
November 12, 1948
– In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
Who Were Born On 1948?
March 29, 1948
– Bud Cort, American actor
April 7, 1948
– Carol Douglas, American singer
June 23, 1948
– Myles Goodwyn, Canadian guitarist and vocalist (April Wine)
July 15, 1948
– Alicia Bridges, American singer
August 2, 1948
– Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
September 18, 1948
– Lynn Abbey, American computer programmer and author
October 5, 1948
– Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
November 5, 1948
– Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
November 16, 1948
– Horst Bertram, German footballer
December 6, 1948
– Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician