The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with settlement of United States-Yugoslav claims arising under the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948 not later than December 31, 1954::

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.

* 1948 – Paul Cellucci, American politician and diplomat, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and United States Ambassador to Canada

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

In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

* 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.

Carr analyzes how English dictionaries gloss Taoisms pronunciation, comparing 12 published in Great Britain ( 1933 – 1989 ) and 11 published in the United States ( 1948 – 1987 ).

* 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The military of Ecuador has been involved in border disputes with Peru ( Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, Paquisha War, Cenepa War ), and has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

The Ecuadorian Armed Forces has provided Military Observers and troops to the United Nations since 1948.

* 1948 UNIMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in Pakistan.

* 1948 UNIMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

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

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

On May 29, 1948, the British initiated United Nations Security Council Resolution 50 and declared an arms embargo on the region.

Many of the basic ideas that animated the movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War and the atrocities of The Holocaust, culminating in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The World Health Organization was founded in 1948 as a United Nations agency to improve global health.

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

* September 17, 1948, Lehi assassination of the United Nations mediator Count Bernadotte, negotiator of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners including thousands of Jews from German concentration camps during World War II, whom Lehi accused of a pro-Arab stance during the cease-fire negotiations.

* 1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

A United Nations – supervised election held in 1948 led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south.

Although original plans called for all-Korean elections sponsored by the United Nations in 1948, Kim persuaded the Soviets not to allow the UN north of the 38th parallel.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

Between 1948 – 1950, the headquarters of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) was located there and two years later, its owner turned it into a luxury hotel called " The New Orient House ".

However, on December 12, 1948, by its resolution 195 in the Third General Assembly, the United Nations recognized the Republic of Korea as the sole legal government of Korea.

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

Other dominions adopted this principle such as New Zealand, by way of the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act of 1948.

Newcomb's tables formed the basis of all astronomical ephemerides of the Sun from 1900 through 1983: they were originally expressed ( and published ) in terms of Greenwich Mean Time and the mean solar day, but later, in respect of the period 1960 – 1983, they were treated as expressed in terms of ET, in accordance with the adopted ET proposal of 1948 – 52.

An impression has sometimes arisen that ephemeris time was in use from 1900: this probably arose because ET, though proposed and adopted in the period 1948 – 1952, was defined in detail using formulae that made retrospective use of the epoch date of 1900 January 0 and of Newcomb's Tables of the Sun.

After a parliamentary government was formed in 1948, Prime Minister U Nu attempted to make Burma a welfare state and adopted central planning.

It is governed by a city council as specified in the city's charter adopted in 1948.

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declared freedom from slavery is an internationally recognized human right.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 47, adopted in 1948, called for a plebiscite to decide the fate of Kashmir.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly ( 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris ).

The Universal Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 1948 by a vote of 48 in favour, 0 against, with eight abstentions: the USSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Yugoslavia, Poland, South Africa, Czechoslovakia and Saudi Arabia.

Even though it is not legally binding, the Declaration has been adopted in or has influenced most national constitutions since 1948.

This resolution also reaffirmed paragraph 11, concerning refugees, of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 ( 1948 ), adopted and passed unopposed, supported by Israel and the Arab states, with only the Soviet bloc and South Africa abstaining.

On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ).

As the disorders in Palestine increased The Security Council voted on and adopted Resolution 42 ( 1948 ) of 5 March 1948, appealing to all governments and peoples, particularly in and around Palestine, to take all possible action to prevent or reduce such disorders as were occurring in Palestine.

The situation in Palestine was becoming even more chaotic when the Security Council met on 1 April 1948 it adopted Resolution 43 ( 1948 ), calling for an " immediate truce be effected in Palestine " and calls for " the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee to make representatives available to the Security Council for the purpose of arranging a truce between the Arab and Jewish communities of Palestine ; and emphasizes the heavy responsibility which would fall upon any party failing to observe such a truce ".

By 17 April 1948 the situation in Palestine had deteriorated further and the Security Council adopted Resolution 46 ( 1948 ), calling upon all persons and organizations in Palestine to immediately cease all military activities, as well as acts of violence, terrorism and sabotage ; to refrain from any actions endangering the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine and refrain from importing or acquiring or assisting or encouraging the importation or acquisition of weapons and war materials ( arms embargo ).

The Assembly adopted resolution 185 ( S-2 ) of 26 April 1948, asking the Trusteeship Council to study measures for the protection of Jerusalem, its inhabitants and to submit proposals to the General Assembly.

On 14 May 1948, the Assembly adopted resolution 186 ( S-2 ), which affirmed its support for the efforts of the Security Council to secure a truce in Palestine ; decided to appoint a U. N.

The Declaration of Geneva was adopted by the General Assembly of the World Medical Association at Geneva in 1948 and amended in 1968, 1984, 1994, 2005 and 2006.

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.

On her accession to the throne in 1948, Juliana adopted the arms of Dominion of the Netherlands.

The former evolved into the UDHR and was adopted on December 10, 1948.