* 1948 – Lester Bangs, Rock critic ( d. 1982 )

* April 30 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist ( b. 1948 )

Monroe's 1946 to 1948 band, which featured banjo prodigy Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts ( also known as " Cedric Rainwater ")— sometimes called " the original bluegrass band "— created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.

In 1948 Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and formed the Foggy Mountain Boys, also later known simply as Flatt and Scruggs.

Lester Randolph Ford, Sr. ( October 25, 1886 – November 11, 1967 ) was an American mathematician, editor of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1942 to 1946, and President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1947 to 1948.

Norman Yardley succeeded Brian Sellers as captain in 1948 and his main team members that season were Len Hutton, Ted Lester, Harry Halliday, Vic Wilson, Willie Watson, Frank Smailes, Johnny Wardle, Don Brennan ( wicket-keeper ), Ellis Robinson, Ron Aspinall and Alex Coxon.

He ran for the Liberal leadership three times, in 1948, in 1958 and 1968, but was defeated at all three Liberal leadership conventions, first by Louis St. Laurent, then by Lester B. Pearson, then by Pierre Trudeau.

Lester B. Pearson, Liberal ( 1948 – 1968 )

" Trees " was popularised in 1948 by the eponym segment of Melody Time, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and also in the 1980 film Superman II, of which there are two versions, one directed by Richard Donner and one directed by Richard Lester.

This large brick mansion and spacious grounds were purchased in 1948, and Lester B. Pearson was the first ambassador to reside there.

Through his career he played with Rex Stewart ( 1948 ), Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Don Byas, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Bud Powell ( in a trio with Kenny Clarke ), Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and many others.

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.

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, Carola ( writing as " Felix C. Forrest ")

It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.

The Cuban subspecies, C. p. bairdii, photographed in 1948

The information Fuchs gave Soviet intelligence in 1948 coincided with Donald Maclean's reports from Washington, D. C.

* 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.

* Loomis, C. Grant, 1948.

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales in the case of Saltman Engineering Co Ltd v. Campbell Engineering Ltd, ( 1948 ) 65 P. R. C.

* Stacey, C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict: Volume 2: 1921 – 1948 ; the Mackenzie King Era, University of Toronto Press 1981, ISBN 0-08-202397-5.

* June 20 – The U. S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7: 00 a. m. D. C. time ( to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948 ).

* July 21 – C. Aubrey Smith, English actor ( d. 1948 )

* March 12 – William C. Lee, U. S. general ( d. 1948 )

** Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist ( d. 1948 )

In 1948 Alfred C. Kinsey and his co-workers, responding to a request by female students at Indiana University for more information on human sexual behavior, published the book Sexual behaviour in the Human Male.

A notable exception to this was relative newcomer Arthur Godfrey who, as late as 1942, was still doing a local morning show in Washington, D. C. Godfrey, who had been a cemetery-lot salesman and a cab driver, pioneered the style of talking directly to the listener as an individual, with a singular " you " rather than phrases like " Now, folks ..." or " Yes, friends ...." His combined shows contributed as much as 12 % of all CBS revenues ; by 1948, he was pulling down a half-million dollars a year.

In 1948, its scope was extended by another pioneering exploration by Ulam and C. J. Everett.

The play Anne of the Thousand Days, the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the Shubert Theatre on 8 December 1948 ; staged by H. C. Potter, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances ; Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance.

* Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, 1782 – 1828 ( 1944 ) ISBN 0-8462-1041-X ; John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829 – 1839 ( 1948 ); John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840 – 1859 ( 1951 ); the standard scholarly biography

* Rayback Joseph G., " The Presidential Ambitions of John C. Calhoun, 1844 – 1848 ," Journal of Southern History, XIV ( Aug., 1948 ), 331 – 56.

On 23 May 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul and member of the UN Truce Commission was assassinated in Jerusalem.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The Secretary of State shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the total cost of adjudication, not borne by the claimants, attributable to the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

for example, Jacchia ( 1948 ) derived a scale of 0.15 g for a Af, zero-magnitude meteorite.

In 1948, Afranio Do Amaral, the noted Brazilian herpetologist, wrote a technical paper on the giant snakes.

Since 1948 the working headquarters has been the Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

His sense of urgency in this matter stems from the fact that court cases and juvenile arrests have more than doubled since 1948, each year showing an increase in offenders.

An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1948 season.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

A further 260 Anglican churches have been demolished since 1948 ''.

Judicial opinion since the Supreme Court decision on Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ) has rendered racial restrictive covenants unenforcible.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

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

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

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

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

* 1948 – Sgt.