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.

Though Palenque had been examined by archaeologists before, the secret to opening his tomb — closed off by a stone slab with stone plugs in the holes, which had until then escaped the attention of archaeologists — was discovered by Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier in 1948.

Patterson escaped from prison in 1948 and published The Scottsboro Boy in 1950, before being caught by the FBI.

But a few years later, after the quickly forming communists took over the political power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Čelovský escaped into exile, not willing to participate or passively linger on any kind of totality.

Outside the UK and Ireland, the threat from the eastern grey squirrel comes from a population in Piedmont, Italy, where two pairs escaped from captivity in 1948.

Back in New York, Wilson played Pompey, an escaped slave, in the musical Bloomer Girl ( 1946 – 1948 ).

In 1948 she fell in love with a patient, David Tasma, a Polish-Jewish refugee who, having escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, worked as a waiter ; he was dying of cancer.

In 1942 he escaped to Mexico, where he lived until 1948 and published numerous books about libertarian socialism and the Spanish collectives.

Therefore, in December 1948, the high commissioner Pierre de Chevigné boasted in the radio that not a single square centimetre of the island escaped from French military control, leading to the assertion that the 80, 000 missing people were all dead.

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.

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.

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.

In November 1948 the station was re-established under its present name, Manseibashi Police Station.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

In 1948, Capp reached a creative peak with the introduction of the Shmoos, lovable and innocent fantasy creatures who reproduced at amazing speed and brought so many benefits that, ironically, the world economy was endangered.

The weapon was initially dubbed KAS-1, then AAM-2, and, from 1948 on, AAM-N-2.

The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.

Berinthia " Berry " Berenson Perkins ( April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American photographer, actress, and model.

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

Bethlehem was administered by the British Mandate from 1920 to 1948.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

The original 1948 Master Plan included a Third Harbor Tunnel plan that was hugely controversial in its own right because it would have disrupted the Maverick Square area of East Boston.

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.

In 1948, Pasternak advised Ivinskaya to resign her job at Novy Mir, which was becoming extremely difficult due to their relationship.

Forces under Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni recaptured al-Qastal from the Palmach on April 8, 1948.

In 1795 the British recaptured and held it until Sri Lanka's independence in 1948.

The kibbutz was conquered by Egypt during the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, but recaptured by Israel towards the end of the conflict.

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.

Between 1948 and 1957 there were 15 hijackings worldwide, an average of a little more than one per year.

* 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.

In 1948 the Quebec government passed a law requiring all highways and local roads to be cleared of snow ; the Bombardier company's sales fell by nearly half in one year.

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

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.

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.

As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the ' ones that got away ' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7. 27 ( of which full forward Bill Brittingham contributed 2. 12 ) to tie with Melbourne ( who managed 10. 9 ) in the 1948 grand final.

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

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.

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

The 9th edition of the Convention on International Civil Aviation includes modifications from 1948 up to year 2006.

A 3 year ( 1948 – 51 ) teaching experience at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta, made him discover Hinduism through the way it shaped the personalities of the students entrusted to him.

In 1948, the same year as the original publication, a committee of the American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as John Tukey, condemned the sampling procedure.

Announced in November 1947, production of the post-war Olympia, with austere painted hubcaps, began in December 1948 and allowed a modest return to export sales in that year.

The concept of Tax Freedom Day was developed in 1948 by Florida businessman Dallas Hostetler, who trademarked the phrase " Tax Freedom Day " and calculated it each year for the next two decades.

She was thought deceased by 1948, because in this year Scrooge claimed he was the last McDuck.

The first meeting of the World Health Assembly finished on 24 July 1948, having secured a budget of US $ 5 million ( then GBP £ 1, 250, 000 ) for the 1949 year.

The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII ) was a leap year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

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

Some Koreans think of it as the earliest Korean state and of Dangun as the ancestor of Koreans, and from 1948 until December 1961, the Republic of Korea officially reckoned years by adding 2333 to the Common Era year.

The other six Chronicles of Narnia were written between 1948 and 1953, The Magician's Nephew was written over a six year period between 1949 and 1954.