* 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 ).

the Yugoslav Claims Fund the sum of $17,000,000 being the amount paid by the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia pursuant to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 ; ;

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

* 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China ( ROC ) from 1928 to 1948.

May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948

A new Constitution was promulgated in 1947, and Chiang was formally elected by the National Assembly as the first term President of the Republic of China on May 20, 1948.

* Dowd, David, Pageant-Master of the Republic, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, ( 1948 )

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

* 1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.

Erhard's decision to lift many price controls in 1948 ( despite opposition from both the social democratic opposition and Allied authorities ), plus his advocacy of free markets, helped set the Federal Republic on its strong growth from wartime devastation.

The jury has not been used in Germany since, except that between 1948 and 1950 ( during and after the American occupation but prior to the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany ) Bavaria returned to jury trial as it had existed before the Emminger Decrees.

The turning point in Chernenko ’ s career was his assignment in 1948 to head the Communist Party ’ s propaganda department in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

** East German Mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990

* 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.

* 1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.

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.

* 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.

Later, Pakistan handed over some portion of Kashmir near Siachen controlled by Pakistan since 1948 to China.

* 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.

** Joan Hinton ( 1921 – 2010 ) worked for the Manhattan Project and lived in China from 1948 until her death on 8 June 2010 ; she was married to Sid Engst.

Category: 1948 establishments in China

The Huaihai Campaign of late 1948 and early 1949 secured east-central China for the CPC.

The Pingjin Campaign resulted in the Communist conquest of northern China lasting 64 days from November 21, 1948, to January 31, 1949.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Li Tsung-jen were elected by the National Assembly of the Republic of China | National Assembly to be the first-term president and vice president on 20 May 1948.

The existing office was created in 1948 under the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China.

As the Communist Party of China took control of ever larger territories in the latter part of the Chinese Civil War, its People's Bank of China began in 1948 to issue a unified currency for use in Communist-controlled territories.

Also denominated in yuan, this currency was identified by different names, including " People's Bank of China banknotes " (; from November 1948 ), " New Currency " (; from December 1948 ), " People's Bank of China notes " (; from January 1949 ), " People's Notes " ( 人民券, as an abbreviation of the last name ), and finally " People's Currency ", or " renminbi ", from June 1949.

The first series of renminbi banknotes was introduced by the People's Bank of China in December 1948, about a year before the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

On December 1, 1948, the newly founded People's Bank of China introduced notes in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000 yuan.