The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

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.

* 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia ; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is " one of Australia's most profound mysteries ".

It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gambling purposes and became an official event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Leigh and Olivier arriving in Brisbane, Australia, June 1948

By 1948, Olivier was on the Board of Directors for the Old Vic Theatre ; and he and Leigh embarked on a six-month tour of Australia and New Zealand to raise funds for it.

In 1994, the National Library of Australia purchased a photograph album, monogrammed " L & V O " and believed to have belonged to the Oliviers, containing 573 photographs of the couple during their 1948 tour of Australia.

The 1948 royal tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed because of the King's increasing ill health.

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.

Up to a point, it is autobiographical: The author was born in Germany in 1946 and came to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948.

In 1948, after World War II, he flew his own Percival Proctor light airplane to Australia and back, with the writer James Riddell.

* 1948 – 50: Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga ( Sydney ), Australia

In 1948 Holloway toured for six months in Australia around Melbourne and in New Zealand supported by the band leader Billy Mayerl.

A 1948 performance of The Imaginary Invalid on the factory floor of O ' Brien's Glass Factory in Sydney brought him to the attention of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, then touring Australia with the Old Vic Company.

Olivier encouraged Finch to move to London, and he left Australia in 1948.

Further barriers of distance fell in 1948 and 1952 with the first jet crossing of the Atlantic and the first nonstop flight to Australia.

Some planned capitals include Abuja, Nigeria ( 1991 ); Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil ( 1855 ); Ankara, Turkey ( 1923 ); Austin, Texas ( 1839 ); Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil ( 1897 ); Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 1971 ); Brasília, Brazil ( 1960 ); Canberra, Australia ( 1927 ); Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil ( 1933 ); Islamabad, Pakistan ( 1960 ); Frankfort, Kentucky ( 1792 ); Jefferson City, Missouri ( 1821 ); Jhongsing New Village, Taiwan, Republic of China ( 1955 ); New Delhi, India ( 1911 ); Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ( 1889 ); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( 1857 ); Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil ( 1989 ); Quezon City, Philippines ( 1948 – 1976 ); Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ( 1792 ); Washington D. C., USA ( 1800 ); and Wellington, New Zealand ( 1865 ).

Walter having gained an English medical qualification, the Wintertons left Britain in 1948, arriving in Australia in November where Walter became a GP in Western Australia, first at Pingelly, then Mount Hawthorn ( North Perth ) and then, after the birth of George's only sibling, Peter, at Tuart Hill from 1953.

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG KC ( 6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948 ) was an Australian judge and politician, the third Chief Justice of Australia, ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post.

* Arnold Holt in Edward, My Son ( also co-wrote, His Majesty's Theatre, 1947 ; also played this role at the Martin Beck Theatre New York 1948, and in Australia and New Zealand, 1949 – 50 )

All of the characters in Herman Wouk's City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder ( 1948 ) live in the Bronx, and about half of the action is set there.

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.

Following his father's death in 1948 and aided by Malcolm's chief engineer, Leo Villa, the younger Campbell strove to set speed records on land and water.

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.

( Improvements completed in 1948 made it possible to execute stored programs set in function table memory, which made programming less a " one-off " effort, and more systematic ).

A 24-year-old Brando as Stanley Kowalski on the set of the stage version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) | A Streetcar Named Desire, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1948

Discounting Peary's disputed claim, the first men to set foot at the North Pole were a Soviet party including geophysicists Mikhail Ostrekin and Pavel Senko, oceanographers Mikhail Somov and Pavel Gordienko, and other scientists and flight crew ( 24 people in total ) of Aleksandr Kuznetsov's Sever-2 expedition ( March – May 1948 ).

* 1948 Rendezvous with Peggy Lee ( set of 78s: 6 songs )

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

The newly created Special Department for Money and Credit in Germany's western zones of occupation in September 1947, under Erhard, focused attention immediately upon the general theme of monetary and financial recovery, resulting in the adoption of the so-called Homburg plan in April 1948 that set the stage for the recovery of the economy.

Erhard's decision, as economics director for the British and American occupation zones, to lift many price controls in 1948, despite opposition from both the social democratic opposition and Allied authorities, and his consistent advocacy of free markets, helped set the Federal Republic on its phenomenal growth path.

Clause 3. provided as follows :- Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in part III of this plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

The All Japan Iaido Federation ( ZNIR, Zen Nihon Iaido Renmei, founded 1948 ) has a set of five iaido forms, Tōhō Iaido.

* The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) is an overarching set of standards by which governments, organisations and individuals would measure their behaviour towards each other.

The FCC froze applications for new stations in 1948 while it sorted out the thousands of applicants and re-thought the technical and allocation standards set down between 1938 and 1946.

In March 1948, a Festival Headquarters was set up, which was to be the nucleus of the Festival of Britain Office, a government department with its own budget.

The Netherlands set up the Bijeenkomst voor Federaal Overleg ( BFO ) ( or Federal Consultative Assembly ), a body comprising the leadership of the federal states, and charged with the formation of a United States of Indonesia and an interim government by the end of 1948.

In 1948, the Lakers moved from the NBL to the Basketball Association of America ( BAA ), and Mikan's 28. 3 point per game ( ppg ) scoring average set a BAA record.

In 1964 / 65, the English composer David Bedford set an extract from Patchen's 1948 poem " In Memory of Kathleen " to classical music for the piece A Dream of the Lost Seven Stars.

A tube railway running from Victoria to Walthamstow was first proposed by a Working Party set up by the British Transport Commission in 1948.

This also had political repercussions, as in 1948 the Reformed Political Alliance was set up by members of the liberated churches.

The 1948 film Key Largo, starring Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart, was set there.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

The 1948 film The Miracle of the Bells is nominally set in Glen Lyon, and some scenes were shot there.