* 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 Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with settlement of United States-Yugoslav claims arising under the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 not later than December 31, 1954::

* 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.

* 1948 – Paul Cellucci, American politician and diplomat, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and United States Ambassador to Canada

* 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

Carr analyzes how English dictionaries gloss Taoisms pronunciation, comparing 12 published in Great Britain ( 1933 – 1989 ) and 11 published in the United States ( 1948 – 1987 ).

* 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The military of Ecuador has been involved in border disputes with Peru ( Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, Paquisha War, Cenepa War ), and has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

The Ecuadorian Armed Forces has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

* 1948 UNIMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in Pakistan.

* 1948 UNIMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom in 1948.

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

On May 29, 1948, the British initiated United Nations Security Council Resolution 50 and declared an arms embargo on the region.

Many of the basic ideas that animated the movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust, culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The World Health Organization was founded in 1948 as a United Nations agency to improve global health.

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine