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| 1948 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes Pisan Cantos, about his postwar imprisonment in an American detention centre near Pisa | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US novelist and poet Jack Kerouac coins a term for his contemporaries, the Beat Generation | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play | |
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| 1948 |
| | | In the title of a new book US mathematician Norbert Wiener popularizes a term that he has coined, Cybernetics | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The first West Indian immigrants to Britain arive from Jamaica on the Empire Windrush | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Vittorio de Sica directs the film Bicycle Thieves, a classic of Italian neorealism | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Marshall, the US secretary of state, launches a plan to distribute aid to sixteen European countries | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Daniel Malan becomes South Africa's prime minister after his National Party wins the general election | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Richard Strauss completes his Four Last Songs in the year before his death | |
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| 1948 |
| | | British astronomer Fred Hoyle puts forward a 'steady-state' theory of the universe, in which matter is continually created | |
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| 1948 |
| | | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a film based on B. Traven's novel of 1927 | |
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| 1948 |
| | | A 200-inch telescope goes into service at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Tito accepts Marshall Aid from the USA, setting Yugoslavia on the path of non-alignment in the Cold War | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam – a significant step in the ecumenical movement | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears together establish an annual festival in the Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The National Health Service comes into effect in Britain, providing free medical, dental and hospital services for the entire population | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US lawyer Alger Hiss is denounced, controversially, as a Soviet spy | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo | |
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| 1948 |
| | | In their manifesto Refus global fifteen artists and authors attack the values of conservative Quebec | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Daniel Malan moves swiftly to reinforce apartheid, South Africa's already existing system of racial segregation | |
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| c. 1948 |
| | | US psychologist B.F. Skinner trains laboratory rats to use their brains in his 'Skinnner box' | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force | |
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| 1948 |
| | | 700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The UN mediator in Palestine, Folke Bernadotte, proposes a peace plan involving the partition of Palestine | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Jewish terrorists, opposed to the partition of Palestine, murder the UN peacemaker Folke Bernadotte | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Donald Bradman retires from Test cricket with a tantalizing career average of 99.94 runs | |
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| 1948 |
| | | A nine-year civil war begins in Colombia, bringing eventually some 200,000 deaths | |
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| 1948 |
| | | French composer Pierre Schaeffer writes the first pieces of musique concrète, and coins the term | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Louis St-Laurent succeeds Mackenzie King as Liberal leader and prime minister of Canada | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US president Harry S. Truman wins election to the office in his own right | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Prime minister Ben Chifley sees Australia's first mass-produced car, the Holden, roll off the production line | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Muslim Brotherhood carries out acts of terrorism against the Egyptian authorities and British troops | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen completes Turangaîlila-symphonie, a symphony in ten movements for an orchestra including ondes martenot | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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| 1948 June 26 |
| | | The Western powrers respond to the Soviet blockade by launching the Berlin airlift, flying in necessary provisions of every kind | |
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