1948

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1948 is a year in the 20th century. It was a leap year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Awards 5 Films Released 6 New Books 7 Hit Songs

[edit] Events

• January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution.
• January 4 - Burma 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 17 - Truce between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java
• January 26 - Teigin poison case - Man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 out of 15 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced for the crime.
• January 30 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• January 30 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
• February 1 - Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
• February 4 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. King George VI becomes King of Ceylon.
• 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 24 - The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia.
• Works begins on the Crazy Horse Memorial.

[edit] Births

• January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
• January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
• January 16 - John Carpenter, director
• January 24 - Elliot Abrams, deputy national security adviser
• February 5 - Barbara Hershey, actress
• February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
• March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
• March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress
• June 22 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, producer
• July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
• October 9 - Jackson Browne, songwriter
• October 17 - Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
• November 28 - Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and script writer
• December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, singer/songwriter
• December 10- Abu Abbas, terrorist
• December 27 - Gerard Depardieu, French actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, Leader of Indian Non-Violent Independence movement (assassinated)
• January 30 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, co-inventor of the airplane
• February 2 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
• February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director
• March 6 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist
• March 10 - Zelda Fitzgerald (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• March 10 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
• March 31 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author
• April 9 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
• April 17 - Suzuki Kantaro, Japanese admiral and prime minister
• May 15 - Father Edward J. Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
• May 28 - Unity Mitford, British friend of Hitler
• June 25 - William C. Lee, Maj, General United States Army (b. 1895)
• July 23 - David Wark Griffith, film director
• August 12 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
• August 16 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer
• September 11 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan
• October 24 - Franz Lehár, composer
• November 28 - D.D. Sheehan first independent Labour MP. in Ireland
• December 23 - Doihara Kenji, Hirota Koki, Itagaki Seishiro, Kimura Heitaro, Matsui Iwane, Muto Akira, and Tojo Hideki, Japanese war leaders (hanged)
• December 31 - Sir Malcolm Campbell, land and water racer (b. 1885)

[edit] Awards

[edit] Films Released

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Scott of the Antartic

[edit] New Books

• Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
• Catalina - W. Somerset Maugham
• Concluding - Henry Green
• Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
• The Foundling – Georgette Heyer
• The Golden Warrior - Hope Muntz
• Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
• The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
• The Hearth and the Eagle - Anya Seton
• The House of Sleep - Anna Kavan
• Ides of March - Thornton Wilder
• John Aubrey and His Friends - Anthony Powell
• Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
• Last Of The Conquerors - William Gardner Smith
• The Living Is Easy - Dorothy West
• The Mask of Circe - C. L. Moore
• Melissa (novel) - Taylor Caldwell
• My Glorious Brothers - Howard Fast
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
• Parris Mitchell of King's Row - Henry Bellamann
• Raintree County - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
• Seraph On The Sewanee - Zora Neale Hurston
• Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose - Dr. Seuss
• The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois
• The White Goddess - Robert Graves
• The World is Not Enough - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
• The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw

[edit] Hit Songs

• "Buttons and Bows" - Dinah Shore
• "Confess" - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
• "Confess" - Patti Page (the first multi-tracked song)
• "Deck Of Cards" - Phil Harris
• "Don't Have To Tell Nobody" - Frankie Laine
• "Gloria" - The Mills Brothers
• "I Love You So Much (It Hurts Me)" - The Mills Brothers
• "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" - Frankie Laine
• "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" - Art Mooney
• "I'm My Own Grandpa" - Guy Lombardo & The Guy Lombardo Trio
• "Is It True What They Say About Dixie" - Al Jolson & The Mills Brothers
• "It's Magic" - Doris Day
• "Little White Lies" - Dick Haymes & The Four Hits And A Miss
• "Love Somebody" - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
• "Mañana" - Peggy Lee
• "Monday Again" - Frankie Laine
• "My Happiness" - The Pied Pipers
• "My Happiness" - Jon and Sondra Steele
• "Nature Boy" - Nat King Cole
• "Nature Boy" - Sarah Vaughan
• "On A Slow Boat To China" - Kay Kyser, Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
• "Red River Valley" - Jo Stafford
• "Red Roses For A Blue Lady" - Vaughn Monroe
• "Rosetta" - Frankie Laine
• "So Tired" - Russ Morgan
• "Someday You'll Want Me To Want You" - Vaughn Monroe
• "The Things We Did Last Summer" - Georgia Gibbs
• "A Tree In the Meadow" - Margaret Whiting
• "Twelfth Street Rag" - Pee Wee Hunt
• "Underneath the Arches" - Andrews Sisters
• "What Could Be Sweeter" - Frankie Laine
• "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Woody Woodpecker" - Kay Kyser
• "You Call Everybody Darlin'" - Al Trace
• "You Can't Be True, Dear" - Ken Griffin