In 1948, television began to acquire commercial momentum and by the following year there were nearly a hundred television transmitters in American cities.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

In the mid-century and in the following decades, many new concerti were written for the double bass, including Nikos Skalkottas's Concerto ( 1942 ), Eduard Tubin's Concerto ( 1948 ), Lars-Erik Larsson's Concertino ( 1957 ), Gunther Schuller's Concerto ( 1962 ), and Hans Werner Henze's Concerto ( 1966 ).

He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

John Fox Watson made a pioneering transfer to Real Madrid in 1948, becoming one of the first players from the British Isles to sign for a high-profile side abroad, leading the way for British players like John Charles, Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law in the following decades.

While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

In the three years following the 1948 Palestine war, about 700, 000 Jews immigrated to Israel, residing mainly along the borders and in former Arab lands.

The Brotherhood has suffered periodic repression in Egypt and has been banned several times, in 1948 and several years later following confrontations with Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser, who jailed thousands of members for several years.

Ronald Reagan was skeptical about marriage, however, following his painful 1948 divorce from Jane Wyman, and he still saw other women.

Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.

The Apartheid system enacted a nation-wide social policy " separate development " with the National Party victory in 1948, following the " colour bar "- discriminatory legislation dating back to the beginning of the Union of South Africa and the Boer republics before which, while repressive to black South Africans along with other minorities, had not gone nearly so far.

UNRWA was established following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution 302 ( IV ) of 8 December 1949.

It also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the state of Israel following the 1948 conflict until the Israeli government took over responsibility for Jewish refugees in 1952.

* Burma following independence in 1948 until the 1962 military coup d ' état.

The rationale for the name is described in the following extract from the company's Technical Memoranda ( May 28, 1948 ) calling for votes:

In the following year, he married Hannelore Renner, whom he had known since 1948, and they had two sons.

One 1948 speech, met with cheers by supporters, included the following:

* Swedish modernist painter Sigrid Hjertén died following a lobotomy in 1948.

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the city was defended by the Iraqi Army, then captured briefly by the forces from Israel's Carmeli Brigade during the " Ten Days ' fighting " following the cancellation of the first cease-fire.

In 1948, the Secretary of Defense ( an office created in 1947 following the merger of the Departments of War and the Navy ) replaced the Secretary of War in the line of succession.

Castries has been rebuilt many times, following major fires in 1796 and 1813, and most notably on June 19, 1948.

The network was initially developed primarily by ITT, and grew following the system's nationalization in 1948 and the creation of the ENTel State enterprise.

In 1948 Fianna Fáil had been in power for sixteen consecutive years and had been blamed for a downturn in the economy following World War II.

Basilan was then included in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu ( 1914 – 1920 ), a district of Zamboanga Province ( 1920 – 1936 ), and then of the Chartered City of Zamboanga ( 1936 – 1948 ), before it became a Chartered City on its own right at the beginning of the Philippine Republic.

He extended his tour to remain in the Philippines until 1948 helping the Philippine Army rebuild its intelligence services and he was responsible for resolving the cases of large numbers of prisoners of war.

* Panfilo Morena " Ping " Lacson ( born 1948 ), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

The Philippine Independence Medal was also authorized for award to foreign militaries, with a number of retroactive awards presented between 1945 and 1948.

Attended school in Balaoan, Vigan, San Fernando, and was appointed government student to the United States in 1905 ; graduate of the Western Illinois State Teachers College at Macomb in 1908 ; attended the University of Chicago, in 1906 and 1907 ; graduated from Columbia University in New York City, and from the Teachers College of New York City in 1910 ; first Filipino superintendent of schools in 1915 and 1916 ; assistant director of education 1917-1921 ; member of the first Philippine mission to the United States in 1919 and 1920 ; lecturer at the University of the Philippines 1919-1921 ; president of the National University 1921-1936 ; elected a member of the Philippine Senate in 1925 ; elected as a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1928 ; reelected in 1931 and served from March 4, 1929, until January 3, 1935, when his term expired ; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1934 ; member of the first National Assembly in 1935 ; member of the Economic Mission to the United States in 1939 ; chairman of Educational Mission 1938-1941 ; chairman of National Council of Education in 1941 ; director of publicity and propaganda until January 1942 ; chairman of National Cooperative Administration in 1941 ; subsequently assistant commissioner of the Department of Education, Health, and Public Welfare, then Minister of Education of the Philippines until 1945 ; chancellor of Osias Colleges ; elected to the Philippine Senate in 1947 for the term expiring in 1953 ; served as minority and majority floor leader and then elected president of the Philippine Senate ; Philippine representative to the Interparliamentary Union in Rome and to the International Trade Conference in Genoa in 1948 ; elected to the Philippine Senate, 1961-1967, and served as president pro tempore ; a resident of Mandaluyong, Rizal, Philippines, until his death in Manila on May 20, 1976.

The seal was submitted and approved by the Philippine Heraldry Committee in 1948.

After Philippine independence in 1946 and Catanduanes became an independent province, the first elected municipal mayor of Calolbon was Jose B. Surban ( 1947 – 1948 ).

The Philippine Government in 1948 bought 4, 150 hectares of the Dinalupihan Estate and sold the lots to the settlers.

Virgilio Olivar Garcillano ( born c. 1948 ) also known as Garci, is a former official of the Philippine Commission on Elections who allegedly was involved in Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's alleged electoral fraud in the Hello Garci scandal.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 1948.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom in 1948.

Israeli independence in 1948 was marked by massive migrations of Jews from both Europe and the Islamic world to Israel, and of Arabs from Israel leading to extensive conflict with the Arab League.

Previously, the Privy Council had ruled in Ibralebbe v The Queen AC 900 that it remained the highest court of appeal in Ceylon notwithstanding the country's independence as a Dominion in 1948.

* 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.

This conflict would come to be very significant in the aftermath of World War Two when Burma was granted its independence from Great Britain in 1948.

On 4 January 1948, Burma achieved independence from Britain, and became a democracy based on the parliamentary system.

The Tatmadaw has been engaged in a bitter battle with ethnic insurgents, political dissidents and the narco-armies since the country gained its independence from Great Britain in 1948.

At the time of Myanmar's independence in 1948, the Tatmadaw was weak, small and disunited.

" Fire Time " gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of David Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948 ; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G ' yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it.

The leader of Romania from 1948 to his death in 1965 was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers ' Party, who first sowed the seeds of greater independence from the Soviet Union by persuading Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw troops from Romania in April 1958.

As a British crown colony, the island was known as Ceylon, and achieved independence under the name Dominion of Ceylon in 1948.

The Soulbury constitution ushered in Dominion status for Ceylon, with independence proclaimed on 4 February 1948.

At independence in 1948, Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, was a Commonwealth realm, with the monarch represented by the Governor General.

After Indian independence, Prime Minister Jawarharalal Nehru authorized the development of a nuclear programme headed by Homi J. Bhabha ; the Atomic Energy Act of 1948 focuses on peaceful development.

David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence from the United Kingdom on May 14, 1948

Marshall felt that if the state of Israel was declared that a war would break out in the Middle East ( which it did in 1948 one day after Israel declared independence ).

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.