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

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

Category: States and territories established in 1948

Cuba joined the Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1948.

Clause 3. provided that " Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem ... shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

Iraq participated in the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973, and traditionally has opposed all attempts to reach a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Arab States.

TERMINATION OF MANDATE, PARTITION AND INDEPENDENCE: Clause 3. provides :- Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, ..., shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

* 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force ( WAF ).

* 1948 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.

Later, an All India Radio ( AIR ) broadcast of March 27, 1948, reported a press conference by VP Menon, Secretary in the Ministry of States.

Minimum wage laws were first introduced nationally in the United States in 1938, Brazil in 1940 India in 1948, France in 1950, and in the United Kingdom in 1998.

* 1862 – Josephus Daniels, American publisher, editor, and United States Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – The U. S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

* 1948 – Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate

* 1885 – Claud Ashton Jones, United States Navy rear admiral and Medal of Honor winner ( d. 1948 )

This led to the Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ( 1948 ) holding that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains.

Pirsig enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and was stationed in South Korea until 1948.

Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term " rhythm and blues " in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States.

The Soviet forces having withdrawn in 1948, North Korea pressured the South to expel the United States forces but Rhee sought to align his government strongly with America, and against both North Korea and Japan.