1948

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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents:

1. Events of 1948
   • -  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April
   • -  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.
   • -  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.
   • -  Undated ^. Ongoing
2. Births
3. Deaths
4. Nobel prizes
5. Ship events
6. See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1948

January

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• January 1
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) inaugurated.
  • UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways.
  • The Italian republican constitution goes into effect.
  • The latest New Jersey State Constitution goes into effect.
• January 4 – Burma (now Myanmar) 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 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India.
• January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
• January 22 – British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
• January 26 – Teigin poison case: A man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
• January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.
• January 30
  • Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
  • 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

February

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• February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
• February 4 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom within the British Commonwealth.
• February 16 – Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper[1].
• February 18 – Eamon 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 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech:"Vítězný únor"; Slovak:"Víťazný Február") until November 1989.

March

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• March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
• March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario occurs.[2]
• March 17 – The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
• March 20
  • Singapore holds its first elections.
  • Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.