* 1948 – Carol Douglas, American singer

Lancaster made seven films over the years with Kirk Douglas, including I Walk Alone ( 1948 ), Gunfight at the O. K.

On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.

* 1948 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

In 1948 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, of Dornock in the County of Dumfries.

Douglas retired in 1948 and became chairman of BEA in 1949 a post he retained until 1964.

On December 23, 1948 an Iberia Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashed in bad weather near Gandesa killing all 27 occupants.

On 4 July 1948 a Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 on a flight from Amsterdam to RAF Northolt collided with a RAF Avro York coming from Malta over Northwood.

The group was equipped with Douglas FA-26 Invaders ( RB-26 after 1948 ) and Lockheed FP-80's ( RF-80s after 1948 ) and was integrated with the 1st Fighter Wing, performing a wide array of day and night photographic missions in southern California.

* Douglas H. Fisher ( born c. 1948 ), New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture, member of the New Jersey General Assembly who represented the 3rd Legislative District and served on the Bridgeton City Council from 1990-1992.

Refugees awaiting Military operations in Poonch ( 1948 ) | evacuation by Douglas C-47 Skytrain | IAF Dakota on Poonch Airstrip, December 1947.

* Carol Douglas ( born 1948 ), American singer

* Jimmy Douglas ( Canadian soccer ) ( born 1948 )

* The 19 passengers and three crew members on a flight from Brussels to London lost their lives on 2 March 1948, when the aircraft, a Douglas DC-3 registered OO-AWH, crashed at 21: 14 local time upon approach of London Heathrow Airport in low visibility conditions.

On August 15, 1948, CBS started their evening TV news program Douglas Edwards and the News.

Douglas Murray McGregor ( 1906, Detroit – 1 October 1964, Massachusetts ) was a Management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.

Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID ( 8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007 ) was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979.

Operations commenced on 18 April 1948 with three Douglas DC-3 aircraft.

Groundbreaking took place on 5 August 1948, and only 90 days later, on 5 November, a United States Air Force ( USAF ) Douglas C-54 Skymaster became the first aircraft to land at the new airport.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain | C47 s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 Berlin Blockade | land blockade of West Berlin

He attended Raine's Foundation Grammar School ( 1948 – 50 ), Hackney Downs School, the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art ( 1958 ), and L ' École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq ( 1965 ).

Deciding to enter politics once again, Douglas let it be generally known that he wished to seek the office of Governor of Illinois in 1948.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

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

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

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.

One of the outstanding halakhists of the movement, he served as a leading member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards from 1948 until his death in 1979.

Kim Il-sung served as General Secretary of the WPK from 1948 until his death in July 1994, simultaneously holding the office of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and the office of President from 1972 to 1994.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.

Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government.

He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926 ; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930 ; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.

Bolesław Bierut, an NKVD agent, and a hard Stalinist served as first Secretary General of the ruling PUWP from 1948 to 1956, playing a leading role in the Sovietisation of Poland and the installation of her most repressive regime.

He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945 to 1948.

He served as mayor from 1945 to 1948.

From 1946 to 1948, he served as Minister of Defense, then Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1951.

In 1948, he served as Ambassador to France.

Gary Adrian Condit ( born April 21, 1948 ) is a former politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003.

After discovering that most of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed their restaurant for three months and reopened it in 1948 as a walk-up stand offering a simple menu of hamburgers, french fries, shakes, coffee, and Coca-Cola, served in disposable paper wrapping.

From 1945 to 1948, Manchuria ( Inner Manchuria ) served as a base area for the People's Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang ( KMT ).

However, after the Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948 the new Communist government would not allow them to apply to be housed in the new Lidice because they had served in the forces of one of the western powers.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari () ( born April 3, 1948 ) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.

Truman, who had served nearly all of FDR's unexpired fourth term and who had been elected to a full term in 1948, thought it better to resume the tradition of leaving office after two terms, rather than run for reelection in 1952.

Mansfield served five terms in the House, being re-elected in 1944, 1946, 1948, and 1950.

He went to China on a special mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and served as a delegate to the ninth Inter-American Conference in Colombia in 1948.

Reece served as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1940, and 1948.