* 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

* 1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.

* 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

Category: States and territories established in 1948

Legislation was also passed in 1947 and 1948 which established a permanent Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for agricultural workers.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

* 1948 – The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.

The Communist Party of Pakistan that was established in 1948 had pushed its membership in all over the country and had considerable support on economical issues in the East.

At first Gaza Strip was officially administered by the All-Palestine Government, established by the Arab League in September 1948.

However, even though the implementation of the Australian Citizenship Act in 1948 established the concept of an independent Australian citizenship, the idea of Australian-born persons being appointed governor of New South Wales was much earlier.

After 1948, when Himachal Pradesh was established as an administrative unit, the local Takri variants were replaced by Devanagari.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

* Israel was established in 1948, and France was one of the fiercest supporters of the Jewish state, supplying it with extensive weaponry it used during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The landmark event that established the discipline of information theory, and brought it to immediate worldwide attention, was the publication of Claude E. Shannon's classic paper " A Mathematical Theory of Communication " in the Bell System Technical Journal in July and October 1948.

Since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has established four new holidays and days of remembrance.

Nehru envisioned the developing of nuclear weapons and established the Atomic Energy Commission of India ( AEC ) in 1948.

* 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.

Truman signed the Economic Cooperation Act into law on April 3, 1948 ; the Act established the Economic Cooperation Administration ( ECA ) to administer the program.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

Following the end of World War II, ambassador-level diplomatic relationships between France and Burma were established in 1948, soon after the Burmese nation became an independent republic on January 4, 1948, as Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister.

When it was originally established in 1948 as a wildlife sanctuary, the Mara covered only of the current area, including the Mara Triangle.

When the joint trusteeship failed due to Soviet intransigence, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) was established in 1948.

The current Flag of Quebec is based on this design, and was adopted in 1948. In 1843, Duvernay established the charitable Association Saint-Jean Baptiste in order to have the Saint-Jean Baptiste celebrated that year.

Shortly before his death in 1948, Atkinson transferred ownership of the paper to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the paper's liberal tradition.

Founded in 1948, the Pike Foundation is the charitable organization that provides funding to the fraternity and its chapters for leadership programs, scholarships, and chapter house facilities.

It was founded in 1948 as a voluntary charitable organisation dedicated to conserving the wildlife and wild places of Lincolnshire and to promoting the understanding and enjoyment of the natural world.

The Trusts, a single entity, is the successor to, and sole beneficiary of, seven charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by J. Howard Pew, Mary Ethel Pew, Joseph N. Pew, Jr., and Mabel Pew Myrin — the adult sons and daughters of Sunoco founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.

Additional newsletters, notices, membership lists, by-laws, correspondence, and photographs from 1948 to 1990 document the fundraising, social, and charitable activities of the Royaleers Club, an organization for female salaried employees.

In 1872, the Meiji government proclaimed 11 February 660 BC, in the Gregorian calendar the foundation day of Japan, which was then commemorated as the holiday Kigensetsu (" Era Day ") until 1948.

The jury has not been used in Germany since, except that between 1948 and 1950 ( during and after the American occupation but prior to the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany ) Bavaria returned to jury trial as it had existed before the Emminger Decrees.

After the foundation of the United Nations, the UPU became a specialized agency of the UN in 1948.

These two 1948 papers of Gamow laid the foundation for our present understanding of big-bang nucleosynthesis

Building on Hartley's foundation, Shannon's noisy channel coding theorem ( 1948 ) describes the maximum possible efficiency of error-correcting methods versus levels of noise interference and data corruption.

Garrett Hitzert was the City's First Mayor after the city incorporated in 1948, his leadership helped build the foundation that much of the city's ongoing prosperity has been based on.

Most of the Jews left the city after the foundation of Israel in 1948, as well as most of the Turks and Greeks.

The culture of Israel developed long before the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 and combines the heritage of secular and religious lives.

1948 – 49: Several teams begin to leave the NBL for the BAA as the foundation for a merger is laid.

PKKM established the Pusat Tenaga Rakyat ( PUTERA ), a conglomeration of radical Malay Political Parties and then merged with the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action ( AMCJA ) which thoroughly opposed the 1948 Federation Agreement for the foundation of the Federation of Malaya.

Focusing on key passages in the books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation, Lindsey originally suggested the possibility that these climactic events might play out in the 1980s, which he interpreted as one generation from the foundation of modern Israel in 1948, a pivotal event in most evangelical ( especially conservative evangelical ) schools of eschatological thought.

Presently, Hebrew shares this title with Arabic only, because a measure was taken soon after the foundation of the State, in 1948, to modify the British policy, which imposed three languages, and gave up English.

In 1948, Kaiser established the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, ( also known as Kaiser Family Foundation ), a U. S .- based, non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation.

With the Bizone, the foundation for new constitutional and economic developments was laid, cemented by the currency reform of June 1948.

Israel has been a destination for Polish Jews ever since the country's foundation in 1948, as a result of the Holocaust and the high impact it had on Poland than any other European country.

Muñoz Rivera's son, Luis Muñoz Marín, also became an important figure in politics, taking part in the foundation of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico and becoming the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico in 1948.

Sao Shwe Thaike ( b. October 1896 ) was instrumental in laying the foundation in 1945 for what was to become the Union of Burma in 1948.

Holybourne Theatre's history goes back to the foundation of the Holybourne Dramatic club in January 1948, the month that British Rail was born.

It was merged in 1948 with the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases ( originally called The London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis ), which in turn owed its foundation in 1866 to a German, Julius Althaus ( 1833 – 1900 ).

In January 2009, Boyle wrote that " Israel ’ s genocidal policy against the Palestinians has been unremitting, extending from before the very foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 ... Zionism ’ s “ final solution ” to Israel ’ s much touted “ demographic threat ” allegedly posed by the very existence of the Palestinians has always been genocide.

It was until 1948 when Rodrigo Ampudia del Valle along with the sugar mill's coop membership, including the mill's superintendent and its chief chemist Gustavo de la Parra, founded Club Social y Deportivo Zacatepec who from its foundation sought to play in the professional division.

Starting from 1932, the surrounding area was drained and Ardea began to flourish again, becoming a frazione of Pomezia starting from its foundation around 1948 and an independent municipality in 1970.

Since it was no longer for British pupils only, the school's name was changed on the school's speech day of 1948 to ' King George V School ,' as George V was king when the foundation stone of the Peel Block was laid.

MH was founded in 1948 by the then vice-chancellor, Sir Maurice Gwyer Its foundation stone was laid by Lady Edwina Mountbatten on March 7 in the same year.