* 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 ).

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.

His parents, who separated shortly after World War II, never married, and Ayckbourn's mother divorced her first husband to marry again in 1948.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

pitching Triple Crown ( baseball ) | Triple Crown in 1940, key member of the 1948 World Series Championship team, the Indians all time leader in wins and stikeouts, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

On October 10, 1948, Game 5 of the World Series against the Boston Braves drew over 84, 000.

Palestine Potash Company supplied half of Britain's potash during World War II, but ultimately became a casualty of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe after World War II in response to a call issued by Europeans from all walks of life who had gathered at the Hague Congress ( 1948 ).

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

The Second World War effectively ended the International Agricultural Institute, though it was only officially dissolved by resolution of its Permanent Committee on February 27, 1948.

He designed mines for the U. S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph. D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U. S. Embassy in London.

GATT was signed in 1948 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1995.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

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.

* Wuorinen ; John H. Finland and World War II, 1939-1944 ( 1948 ) online edition

In 1948, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) assumed responsibility for preparing and publishing the revisions to the ICD every ten-years.

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

After World War II, several other forces were also leading the country toward increased equality for blacks, including their accelerated migration to the North, where their political clout grew, and President Harry Truman's desegregation of the military in 1948.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.