* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician, Vice Chancellor of Germany

* 1948 – Lois Reeves, American singer ( Martha and the Vandellas )

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Perry King, American actor

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1948 – Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )

* 1948 – Sgt.

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano

* 1948 – Scott Powell, American singer ( Sha Na Na )

In 1948 Australia set new standards, completely outplaying their hosts to win 4 – 0 with one draw.

* 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Amen Corner and Fair Weather )

* 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá ( the Bogotazo ), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.

Betancourt transferred power to his old teacher, the novelist Rómulo Gallegos ( who was the first Venezuelan president elected by direct and universal suffrage ), being appointed by the latter to head the Venezuelan Delegation to the IX Inter American Conference to be held in Bogotá, in 1948.

* American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man ( Approved by the Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogotá, Colombia, 1948 )

The Declaration was adopted by the nations of the Americas at the Ninth International Conference of American States in Bogotá, Colombia, in April 1948, the same meeting that adopted the Charter of the Organization of American States and thereby created the OAS.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala ( January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948 ) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister ( 1940 ) and Labor Minister ( 1943 – 1944 ), mayor of Bogotá ( 1936 ) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party.

He was murdered in Bogotá on April 9, 1948.

* 1948 in Bogotá

1948: UNESCO representative before the IX Pan-American Conference, Bogotá, Colombia.

# Delegado de Honduras ante la IX Conferencia Americana Internacional celebrada en Bogotá, Colombia del 30 de marzo al 2 de mayo de 1948, en donde se elaboró y aprobó la Carta de la OEA, el Pacto de Bogotá, la Declaración sobre los Derechos del Hombre y el Acuerdo sobre la Cooperación Económica Americana.

Laserna Pinzón is credited for being the founder of the Los Andes University in Bogotá, which was incorporated in 1948 and is a private institution modeled on the United States liberal arts educational system.

In 1948, upon graduating from Columbia, he returned to Colombia and dedicated himself to the creation of a private secular institution of higher learning in Bogotá.

* Bogotá ( Bogotá, capital of Colombia ) → Bogotazo ( the " Bogotazo ", the riots on April 9, 1948 )

It was signed at the Ninth International Conference of American States of 30 April 1948, held in Bogotá, Colombia.

The assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948 triggered large riots in Bogotá and smaller scale uprisings throughout the country.

In 1948, in the aftermath of the assassination of the populist politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, there occurred a decade of large-scale political violence throughout Colombia, which was a Conservative – Liberal civil war that killed more than 300, 000 people.

In Colombian history and culture, the killings are known as La Violencia ( The Violence, 1948 – 58 ); most of the people killed were peasants and laborers in rural Colombia.

He went to China on a special mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and served as a delegate to the ninth Inter-American Conference in Colombia in 1948.

Pedro Alonso López ( born 8 October 1948 in Santa Isabel, Colombia ) is a Colombian serial killer, accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America.

After a footballers strike in 1948 many footballers went to Colombia, " Pipo " Rossi and Di Stefano were among them.

During his presidency on April 9, 1948 the liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was running for the presidency of Colombia for a second time, this time Gaitán had won his party's primaries and had a large support from the masses when he was assassinated in confusing circumstances by Juan Roa.

It also made foundations in Argentina from 1914 and more solidly since 1921 ; Transvaal in South Africa since 1935, Uruguay 1939, Bolivia 1946, Mexico 1948, Australia 1951, Venezuela 1952, Colombia 1953, India 1974, Mozambique 1984, Philippines 1985, Uganda, Albania 1993, and also the refoundations in Hungary ( Eger ) and the Czech Republic.

Since 1948 when a period of violence erupted against countryside farmers, thousands of people who had have been displaced by wealthy landowners with the help of the army and police from their lands in other parts of Colombia moved to Villavicencio seeking a promised land, una tierra de promision, a refuge from socialist and right wing groups, and even the army and police.

Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful football teams in Colombia ( South America ) winning eight national championships ( 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1996, 1998, and 2005 ) since 1948.

In 1948 the first international students were enrolled: two from Shanghai, China ; one from Cali, Colombia ; and one from Arequipa, Peru.

The name was inspired by the Bogotazo, a massive riot in neighboring Colombia in 1948 that played a pivotal role in that country's history.

* Seasons Spent on 1st Division: 73 ( All since professional football tournaments were officially constituted in Colombia in 1948 ).

* Colombia ( 1948 )

" Marquetalia Republic " was a term used to unofficially refer to one of the enclaves in rural Colombia which communist peasant guerrillas held during the aftermath of " La Violencia " ( approximately 1948 to 1958 ).