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    1948 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1948. 1948 (MCMXLVIII)...
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    The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest...
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    The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the...
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  • The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. The top ten 1948 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: May 3 – The...
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  • 1948 Olympics may refer to: The 1948 Winter Olympics, which were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland The 1948 Summer Olympics, which were held in London,...
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    The 1948 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the...
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  • The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held...
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    A report by a special correspondent of The Times, published on 10 August 1948, stated that a total of 237,000 Muslims were either killed or migrated to...
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  • No. 5, 1948 is a 1948 painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. It was sold...
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    accession of the State of Hyderabad into the Union on 17 September 1948. It existed from 1948 to 1956. Hyderabad State comprised present day Telangana, Marathwada...
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    segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political...
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  • In the 1948 Palestine war, more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs – about half of Mandatory Palestine's predominantly Arab population – were expelled or fled...
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  • Wallace, a former vice president, to become President of the United States in 1948. The party sought racial desegregation, the establishment of a national health...
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    The 1948 United States presidential election in California took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State...
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    on 18 April 1948 to elect the first Parliament of the Italian Republic. After the Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the U.S. became...
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    From March 9 to June 1, 1948, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1948 Democratic National Convention where the party chose its nominee...
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    The 1948 United States Senate elections were held concurrently with the election of Democratic President Harry S. Truman for a full term. The 32 seats...
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    Československá republika), was a sovereign state from April 1945 to February 1948 following the end of World War II. After the fall of Nazi Germany, the country...
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  • A military dictatorship ruled Venezuela for ten years, from 1948 to 1958. After the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état brought an end a three-year experiment...
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    Palestinian Arabs residing in the Israeli-occupied territories. Following the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the Arabs who remained within Israel came...
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    Nyaung Shwe Sawbwa Sao Shwe Thaik (the first President of independent Burma 1948–1952) and aspiring to a "loose" federation, was seen as a separatist movement...
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    The Factories Act, 1948 (Act No. 63 of 1948), as amended by the Factories (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act 20 of 1987), served to assist in formulating national...
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  • FC CSKA 1948 Sofia (Bulgarian: ФК ЦСКА 1948 София) is a Bulgarian football club from Sofia. The team plays its home matches at the Bistritsa Stadium and...
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    The British Nationality Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British...
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    adopting a partition plan in 1947, triggering a civil war. During the ensuing 1948 Palestine war, more than half of the mandate's predominantly Palestinian...
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  • The 1948–49 BAA season was the third and final season of the Basketball Association of America. The 1949 BAA Playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers...
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    Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu (22 August 1887 – 3 August 1948) was a British aristocrat and socialite best known for the many letters that Prime Minister...
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  • year 1948. Previous: List of elections in 1947 Next:List of elections in 1949 1948 Mauritian general election 1948 South African general election 1948 Southern...
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    the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany, until 20 June 1948. The Reichsmark was then replaced by the Deutsche Mark, to become the currency...
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  • 1948 Academy Awards may refer to: 20th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 1948 21st Academy Awards, the 1949 ceremony honoring...
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