* 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 )

* 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

* 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 ).

It now appears that the first Chief Scout of Na Fianna after the reorganisation was Tomas Óg MacCurtain of Cork ( United Irishman newspaper, November 1948 ) who emerged from Portlaoise Prison after a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946.

* 1948 – Na wyspach Bergamutach

* Camp Amal ( Vermont 1948 – 49, Na ' aleh 1950, Cream Ridge 1951, Moshava 1952, Galil 1953 )

* 1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.

* 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.

* 1948 – Yi Munyol, South Korean writer

A United Nations – supervised election held in 1948 led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south.

This southward exodus continued after the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ) in 1948 and during the 1950 – 53 Korean War.

* In July 1994, North Korean leader Kim Il-sung died, having ruled the country since its founding in 1948.

The Provisional Government is considered to be the de jure government of the Korean people between 1919 and 1948, and its legitimacy is enshrined in the preamble to the constitution of the Republic of Korea.

Some Koreans think of it as the earliest Korean state and of Dangun as the ancestor of Koreans, and from 1948 until December 1961, the Republic of Korea officially reckoned years by adding 2333 to the Common Era year.

In addition to contributing to UN forces in the Korean War – it was the first country to announce it would do so after the United States – Australia sent troops to assist in putting down the communist revolt in Malaya in 1948 – 60 and later to combat the Indonesian-supported invasion of Sarawak in 1963 – 65.

His latter three-term presidency ( August 1948 to April 1960 ) remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere.

He held that post through the critical periods of the Berlin Airlift ( 1948 – 1949 ) and the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ).

The Soviet Union soon established a sphere of influence and eventually took over the northern half of the Korean Peninsula in 1948 and established the communist state of North Korea, which sparked the Korean War.

In October 1948, the Soviet Union invaded the northern half of the Korean Peninsula ( 38th parallel ) from Primorsky Krai and the United States took over the southern half.

McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade ( 1948 – 49 ), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U. S. government officials, and the Korean War.

The outbreak of the Korean War saw him being re-commissioned in the Territorial Army, attached to the Royal Artillery, from 23 November 1948 to 1 July 1950.

The contemporary culture of North Korea is based on traditional Korean culture, but developed since the establishment of North Korea in 1948.

Chung Mong-hun ( September 14, 1948 – August 4, 2003 ) was the 5th son of Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the South Korean Hyundai conglomerate.

Intolerance by mainland Korean officials of islanders in general at the time, government and organization sponsored isolation of the island, and rumored cover up of evidence linking the rebellion's suppressors with foreign powers and people who have today gone un-prosecuted is believed to be the primary cause of public ignorance, hedging on denial, over the April 3, 1948 genocide on Cheju-do.

The most tense involved the Berlin Blockade ( 1948 – 1949 ), the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), the Suez Crisis ( 1956 ), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis ( 1962 ), the Vietnam War ( 1959 – 1975 ), the Yom Kippur War ( 1973 ), the Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 ), the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ( 1983 ), and the “ Able Archer ” NATO military exercises ( 1983 ).

Both the North and the South remained heavily dependent on their sponsor states from 1948 to the outbreak of the Korean War.

George McAfee " Mac " McCune ( June 16, 1908 – November 5, 1948 ) was co-developer, with Edwin O. Reischauer, of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean.

The contemporary culture of South Korea developed from the traditional culture of Korea, and on its own path away from North Korean culture since the division of Korea in 1948.