* 1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4 – 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.

Dan Simmons ( born April 4, 1948 ) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium / Olympos cycle.

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

Ealing Studios ( financially backed by J. Arthur Rank ) embarked on their series of celebrated comedies, including Whisky Galore ( 1948 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ).

Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show.

Falsifiers originally appeared as a series of articles in Pravda in February 1948, and was subsequently published in numerous language and distributed worldwide.

This was followed on October 3, 1948 by an appearance on the NBC TV series Welcome Aboard, then a stint as the first of a series of hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1950.

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. ( October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007 ) He used this pseudonym for fantasy novels, including the bestselling The Wheel of Time series for which he was best known.

Between 1948 and 1967, a series of military coups destroyed the stability of the government and any remaining professionalism within the armed forces.

* August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck ; however, " The Invincibles " win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.

Reality television began in 1948 with Alan Funt's TV series Candid Camera.

Crawford worked in the radio series The Screen Guild Theater on January 8, 1939 ; Good News ; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on Arch Oboler's Lights Out ; The Word on Everyman's Theater ( 1941 ); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and Norman Corwin's Document A / 777 ( 1948 ).

His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.

The book was not a success ( and was the last Moomin book to be translated into English ), but the next two installments in the Moomin series, Comet in Moominland ( 1946 ) and Finn Family Moomintroll ( 1948 ), brought Jansson some fame.

After Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948, his health began to decline, and after 1949 a series of strokes followed.

The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances.

Following his At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called Marty ( 1968 ); it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers.

He was a member of the cast of the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show with John Cleese ( as well as Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman ), and later appeared in Marty Feldman's television comedy series Marty.

He appeared in At Last the 1948 Show with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, and was co-writer ( with Graham Chapman ) of several episodes of the Doctor in the House television comedy series.

It thus helped prepare the television audience for At Last the 1948 Show, Spike Milligan's Q series, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies.

He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ( appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film Hamlet ) and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks (' The Colonel ') in the British television series Follyfoot from 1971 to 1973.

The first series of renminbi banknotes was introduced by the People's Bank of China in December 1948, about a year before the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

In 1948, the Negro Leagues faced financial difficulties that effectively ended their existence.

It ended when he fired Duncan in the fall of 1948.

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.

The Second World War effectively ended the International Agricultural Institute, though it was only officially dissolved by resolution of its Permanent Committee on February 27, 1948.

The Mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948, and the 1948 Arab – Israeli War began.

The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Stalinist revolution in the South, and from early 1949 Kim sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force.

The result of the negotiations were the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which ended the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Most lending to wartime subsidiaries ended in 1945, and all such lending ended in 1948.

When World War II ended, he was appointed to the permanent rank of brigadier general in the Regular Army but held his temporary rank of major general in the Army until promotion to lieutenant general in the now separate United States Air Force in 1948.

Most of them settled in West Germany, some ended up in East Germany and a significant minority emigrated to Canada starting in 1948 with the support of Canadian Governor General The Earl Alexander of Tunis, who had known many Baltic Germans during his time that he commanded the Baltic German Landeswehr.

) Previous entries that claimed segregated Scouting ended in 1948 are false.

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 ).

The base was closed after the war ended, but reopened in 1948 as a U. S. Air Force base and test area for Boeing ’ s B-47 Stratojet and B-50 Superfortress.

The war ended in December 1948 with the Line of Control dividing Kashmir into territories administered by Pakistan ( northern and western areas ) and India ( southern, central and northeastern areas ).

The Israelis also argued that a larger number of Jewish refugees had fled or were expelled from Arab countries since 1948, were never compensated, and that most of them ended up in Israel.

The club ended the 1948 – 49 season in 10th place.

He remarried, on 29 March 1947, to Wendy Orme, and they had a daughter, Angela, and another child who died as a baby in 1948 ; but this marriage also ended in divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1953 and in Britain in 1971.

When the war ended Powell resumed work on Aubrey, completing the manuscript of John Aubrey and His Friends in May 1946, though it only appeared in 1948 after difficult negotiations and arguments with publishers.

In a thriller starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth titled The Lady From Shanghai ( 1948 ), a woman, her crippled lawyer / husband and his partner, and an Irish sailor ended up involved in a murder scheme.

When the second American Federation of Musicians strike ended in 1948, Broonzy was picked up by the Mercury label

The marriage to Shaw ended in 1948, and Winsor soon married her divorce attorney, Arnold Krakower.