The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

With his second-place finish from the 1948 World Championship, Smyslov was admitted directly into the 1950 Budapest Candidates ' tournament without needing to play in qualifying events.

Following the end of the Second World War, the British Nationality Act 1948 was passed to allow the 800 million subjects in the British Empire to live and work in the United Kingdom without needing a visa.

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The Indians played in the 1948 World Series and were helped by Lemon's two pitching wins as they won the club's first championship since 1920.

He was a seven-time consecutive All-Star and recorded seven seasons of 20 or more pitching wins in a nine-year period from 1948 – 1956.

In, spearheaded by the National League's best one-two pitching combination, left-hander Warren Spahn and right-hander Johnny Sain, the Braves won their second NL pennant of the 20th century but were defeated in six games by the Cleveland Indians in the 1948 World Series.

After pitching 20 games during the 1947 season, Zuber returned to the minor leagues for a season, pitching for the Louisville Colonels in 1948, before retiring.

In 1947 and 1948 the necessity of massive coordinated efforts to achieve economic recovery led to the formation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to supervise and coordinate the uses of American aid under the Marshall Plan.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

for example, Jacchia ( 1948 ) derived a scale of 0.15 g for a Af, zero-magnitude meteorite.

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.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

* 1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

Bohr worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in early 1948, and later at Columbia University from January 1949 to August 1950.

* 1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $ 5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

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

* Capp, Al, Saturday Review of Literature ( March 20, 1948 ) " The Case for the Comics "

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.

( The American League had to resolve a tie in 1948, but used a single-game playoff for that.

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 ).

On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural broadcast of the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH, broadcasting from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

* 20th Academy Awards ( 1948 ): Best Screenplay, nomination, for Monsieur Verdoux

After the Marshall Plan, the introduction of a new currency to Western Germany to replace the debased Reichsmark and massive electoral losses for communist parties in 1946, in June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin.

Prior to 1948, various standards for luminous intensity were in use in a number of countries.

It was then ratified in 1948 by the 9th CGPM which adopted a new name for this unit, the candela.

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.

Personal Social Services or welfare services were developed in 1948 for individual and families in general, particularly special groups such as the mentally disordered, deprived children, the elderly, and the handicapped.

The Criminal Justice Act of 1948 restricted imprisonment for juveniles and brought improvements to the probation and remand centres systems, while the passage of the Justices of the Peace Act of 1949 led to extensive reforms of magistrates courts.

Entitlement to sick leave was greatly extended, and sick pay schemes were introduced for local authority administrative, professional and technical workers in 1946 and for various categories of manual workers in 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.

Some are very short ( a week to ten days ) whereas others can stretch into months and years ( the 1947 eruption started March 29, 1947 and ended April 1948 ).

In 1948, a stretch of highway from the crossing of U. S. Route 78 over Meeting Street ( known as the Five-Mile Viaduct ) to where U. S. Route 52 meets the Berkeley County line was named as Rivers Avenue because Rivers was key in getting funds from Congress to pave it as the first four-lane road in North Charleston.

After 1921 the entire route, except Methley to Normanton via Castleford, and the short stretch from Barnsley ( Jumble Lane ) to Quarry Junction, became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway until 1948 when the network was nationalised.

* In 1948 George Bollas became known as The Zebra Kid ( being the first to do so ) because of stretch marks on his body from fluctuating weight, while wrestling in Los Angeles.

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

As the 1948 election approached, Eisenhower was repeatedly urged by prominent citizens from both parties nationwide to run for president.

From 1948 to 1958, farm organizations were run out of the Ninth Fort.

This was done when the 1948 Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman, turned out to be far from the box-office and critical hit that was expected, and was edited down from 145 minutes to 100 minutes for its second run in theatres.

This architecture greatly facilitated programming, and on September 16, 1948, ENIAC was first run as a stored-program computer.

Newspaper Archive makes available a 50-year run from 1948 to 1999.

* Combined Development Agency, a uranium purchasing authority run by the US and UK government from 1948

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.

During a production run of 42 years between 1948 and 1990, 3, 872, 583 2CVs were produced, plus 1, 246, 306 Fourgonnettes ( small 2CV delivery vans ), as well as spawning mechanically identical vehicles including the Ami – 1, 840, 396 ; the Dyane – 1, 444, 583 ; the Acadiane – 253, 393 ; and the Mehari – 144, 953, a grand total of 8, 756, 688, of which there are still 3, 417 on the road in the UK as of June 2011.

* Emil Zátopek, winner of one silver and four gold medals at the 1948 Olympics and 1952 Olympics and the first to break the 29 minute barrier in the 10, 000 m run, in 1954

This was built in 1900 and paid for by public subscription and run on voluntary contributions until the creation of the NHS in 1948.

In 1948, he declined to run for re-election because of the ailment, but returned two years later and was elected to the United States Senate.

San Jose's first airline flights were Southwest Airways DC-3s on the multistop run between SFO and LAX, starting in 1948 – 49.

Thurmond had run for President of the United States in 1948 on the Dixiecrat ( or States ' Rights ) ticket.

The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party.

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Because the 1948 election was for a two-year unexpired term, Long had to run again in 1950 for his first full six-year term.

After he dispatched Lafargue and Mills, Long overwhelmed his Republican opponent, Charles S. Gerth, a businessman from New Orleans, who had also run for senator in 1948 against Long's long-term colleague, Allen J. Ellender, but as a Democrat.

The next, smaller split was that of Sam Marcy's Global Class War faction, which called within the SWP for support of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party Presidential run in 1948 and regarded Mao Zedong as a revolutionary leader.

The Socialist Workers Party has run candidates for President since 1948 ; it received its greatest number of votes in 1976, when its candidate, Peter Camejo, received 90, 310 votes.

As a coalitionist, Bennett was re-elected in 1945, but vacated the seat in 1948 in order to run, unsuccessfully, as Progressive Conservative candidate in the Yale federal by-election of that year.

" As Moore wrote in his biography of Doby, " With that home run, all doubts that Doby would make the 1948 Cleveland team vanished.

This changed with the start of the Cold War and the 1948 departure of leftist editor Henry A. Wallace to run for president on the Progressive ticket.

His third MVP award came in 1948, when he finished one home run shy of winning baseball's Triple Crown.