1948

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Years: 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 - 1948 - 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953

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Births

• February 11 - [Sue Bernard]?, Playboy magazine's playmate for December 1966
• October 9 - [Jackson Browne]?, musician

Deaths

• January 30 - Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician
• February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director.

Events

• February 11 - [John Costello]? follows [Eamon De Valera]? as premier of Ireland.
• May 14 Israel established as an independent state.
• December 10, United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Summer Olympic Games in London, UK
• Porsche founded.
• Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by [Gerard Kuiper]?.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett]?
• Chemistry - [Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius]?
• Medicine - [Paul Hermann Müller]?
• Literature - Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Peace - Not awarded.