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1948 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.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1948. Events. January. Main article: January 1948. January 1. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways.
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948.
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. During the war, the British withdrew from Palestine, Zionist forces conquered territory and established the State of Israel, and over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled. It was the first war of ...
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other ...
Events from the year 1948 in the United Kingdom. The Olympics are held in London and some of the government's key social legislation takes effect. Incumbents. Monarch – George VI. Prime Minister – Clement Attlee ( Labour) Events. 1 January. British Railways created when the government nationalizes the railway industry. [1]
Category. : 1948 in the United States. This category is for topics specifically related to the year 1948 in the United States. The main article for this category is 1948 in the United States. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1948 in the United States.
