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December 12, 1948 (Sunday) Batang Kali massacre: British troops killed 24 unarmed villagers during the Malayan Emergency. Italy and the Soviet Union signed a series of trade and reparations agreements in Moscow. Italy conceded all assets in Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria as reparations.
November 2 – 1948 United States presidential election: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and 'Dixiecrat' Strom Thurmond. December [ edit ] December 4 – The 6.3 M L Desert Hot Springs earthquake affected Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ( Very strong ), causing minor damage ...
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1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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2013 – Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (b. 1916) 2013 – Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (b. 1936) 2013 – Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (b. 1981) 2014 – S. Balasubramanian, Indian journalist and director (b. 1936) 2014 – Philip Bradbourn, English lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and ...
