* 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

The 11th Batallion of Chasseurs alpins was garrisonned at Barcelonnette between 1948 and 1990.

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

One of the highlights of the AAFC years was a contest between the 49ers and Browns in 1948.

The running track was used for dirt track racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1933 to 1968, and Midget car racing in 1948.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

On 13 July 1948, the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church reached an agreement concerning the relationship between the two churches.

The state of war between both countries which dated back from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War ended in 1979 with the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp David Accords.

Then, on 1 July 1948, Tirana called on all Yugoslav technical advisors to leave the country and unilaterally declared all treaties and agreements between the two countries null and void.

The 1948 Marshall Plan and strong cultural ties have crafted a strong bond between the two countries, although Schröder's very vocal opposition to the Iraq War suggested the end of Atlanticism and a relative cooling of German-American relations.

Iraq participated in the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973, and traditionally has opposed all attempts to reach a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Arab States.

And from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War until the early 1970s, 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries ; 260, 000 of them reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 ; and 600, 000 by 1972.

* April 1948 the Deir Yassin massacre carried out by the Irgun and Lehi, killed between 107 and 120 Palestinian villagers, the estimate generally accepted by scholars.

Eric D. Weitz wrote, " By 1948, according to Nicolas Werth, the mortality rate of the 600, 000 people deported from the Caucasus between 1943 and 1944 had reached 25 %.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

* 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

* 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.

* 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.

Kashmir was a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, the two having gone to war with each other over the state in 1948.

In 1948 Christian missions controlled 99. 6 % of educational facilities.

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.

1948 was the year Piaggio launched the Piaggio P. 136, a twin-engine seaplane, that was operated by the Italian Air Force, when liaison transport missions were needed.

The Institute was interdenominational and international, opening its own missions in Congo ( 1878 ), Peru ( 1897 ), India ( 1899 ), Borneo ( 1948 ), Nepal ( 1954 ), and Irian Jaya ( 1957 ).

Charles David " Charlie " Walker ( born August 29, 1948 ) is an American engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985 as a Payload Specialist for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

Dale Allan Gardner ( born November 8, 1948, in Fairmont, Minnesota ) is a former NASA astronaut who flew two missions for NASA in the early 1980s.

In Asia the programs expanded with the newly established Maoist People's Republic of China, and other areas, with the development of specific country missions, including ones in Austria ( 1947 – 50 ), China ( 1946 – 48 ), Ireland ( 1948 – 51 ), and Trieste ( 1947 – 52 ).

D. ( Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania ) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist.

* 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Wing ( August 1948 – October 1948 ) ( F-5, F-6, RF-51, RF-61 ) Equipped with reconnaissance aircraft, flew aerial photographing missions over Japan and southern Korea.

From 1943 to 1948, as part of Dumbo missions, 12 B-17G's were converted to B-17H's equipped with an airborne lifeboat and ASV radar for USAAF air-sea rescue duties.

With cross-cultural missions in mind, they began BCOM with a freshman class of 10 students in 1948.

The 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion, in response to parallel missions in Berlin, was reconstituted on 1 September 1948 as Company A, 1st Infantry Battalion, and activated in the Canal Zone.

During the Berlin Airlift a further 10 Sunderland 3s were acquired, and these flew a total of 265 supply missions during 1948 / 49 from Finkenwerder on the river Elbe to river Havel on the outskirts of Berlin.

* 1948: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, " for the coverage of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster and the follow-up which resulted in impressive reforms in mine safety laws and regulations.

Further North, they raided al-Husayniyya, 16 March 1948, in retaliation for a land mine, they blew up five houses and killed " 30 Arab adults ".

In the Northern Negev, 4 April 1948, a Palmach unit in two armoured cars destroyed " nine bedouin lay-bys and one mud hut " after a mine attack on a Jewish Patrol.

In 1948, his fifth child was born, and the following year he went to the Asbestos Region to participate in the Asbestos Strike by local mine workers.

* Friedrich Wilhelm Kegel (?- 1948 ), Namibian mine director

In 1943 the mine was sold to CSR Limited subsidiary, Australian Blue Asbestos Pty Ltd ( ABA ), where Hancock remained as manager until 1948.

The capital was established as an urban facility on March 16, 1948, after the end of World War I, mainly to explore and mine iron ore and other natural resources.

Additional gold was recovered during 1948, but altogether the mine recovered only 30 troy ounces ( 930 g ) of fine gold.

In 1948, 48 people drowned when KJØBENHAVN hit a mine.

In a surprising upset, Stevenson defeated Green in November 1948, ending Green's political career ; the defeat was in part owing to his negligence in preventing the deaths of 111 miners in the Centralia, Illinois mine disaster.

In 1948, the church was demolished, partly due to heavy damage sustained during World War II and partly as part of the resettlement of the town of Bottenbroich to make way for an open-pit lignite mine being opened on the site.