1948
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 4. Burma becomes independent from the U.K.
- Real World: January 30. Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
- Real World: February 1. The U.S.S.R. begins to jam broadcasts from the Voice of America.
- Real World: February 24. In Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party rises to power.
- Real World: March 17. In California, the motorcycle gang known as the Hell's Angels is founded.
- Real World: April 3. The Marshall Plan is signed into law by U.S. President Harry Truman.
- Real World: April 7. The World Health Organization is founded.
- Real World: May 14. Israel is established as an independent state.
- Real World: May 15. Israel comes under attack by Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
- Real World: May 16. Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
- Real World: June 24. The Berlin Blockade begins as the Soviets attempt to cut off Allied supplies to West Berlin.
- Real World: July 26. Executive Order 9981, which ends segregation in the U.S. armed forces, is signed by Harry Truman.
- Real World: November 2. Harry Truman is re-elected President of the United States.
- Real World: November 12. War crimes tribunals in Tokyo sentence seven Japanese officials to death for their part in World War II.
- Real World: December 10. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is adopted by the United Nations.
- Real World: December 28. Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Undated Events
- Real World: Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
Llana of Gathol by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Notable Films
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Black Arrow, The Creeper, The Feathered Serpent, Hamlet, Jungle Jim, Macbeth, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid, Superman (serial), The Three Musketeers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Notable Comic Books
Two-Gun Kid #1.
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