...Date... AGE Event
1948/--/-- 0 *** Bunch, Jerry Wayne - Born to Bunch, Gaylord J.
1948/--/-- 0 - Alec Guinness stars as Fagin in the film of Dicken's Oliver Twist.
1948/--/-- 0 - Alfred Kinsey publishes his report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
1948/--/-- 0 - American opera singer Beverly Sills debuts in Bizet's Carmen.
1948/--/-- 0 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes the war novel The Naked and the Dead.
1948/--/-- 0 - Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
1948/--/-- 0 - Bell Labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 0 - Britain grants independence to Burma.
1948/--/-- 0 - Communism quashed in US
1948/--/-- 0 - Communist leader Kim Il Sung establishes the People's Republic of Korea (N. Korea).
1948/--/-- 0 - Dutch track star Fanny Blankers-Koen wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games.
1948/--/-- 0 - George Balanchine's Ballet Society is renamed the New York City Ballet.
1948/--/-- 0 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 0 - Israel created
1948/--/-- 0 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs The Bicycle Thieves.
1948/--/-- 0 - NATO formed; Cold War begins
1948/--/-- 0 - Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel.
1948/--/-- 0 - Stalin expels Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 0 - The Communist party assumes power in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi.
1948/--/-- 0 - The Malayan Communist party begins an insurrection against British rule.
1948/--/-- 0 - The Republic of Korea (S. Korea) is inaugurated, Syngman Rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 0 - The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
1948/--/-- 0 - The U.S. Air Force begins the Project Blue Book study of the UFO phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 0 - The apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in South Africa.
1948/--/-- 0 - The transistor is invented at Bell Laboratories in the U.S.
1948/10/-- 0 - World Series NL BOSTON (2) AL CLEVELAND (4)
1949/--/-- 1 *** Bunch, Jerry Wayne - Died
1949/--/-- 1 - Abstract artist Robert Motherwell begins his series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
1949/--/-- 1 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC
1949/--/-- 1 - Architect Philip Johnson designs the Glass House in New Caanan, Conn.
1949/--/-- 1 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 1 - British abstract sculptor Henry Moore completes the bronze Family Group.
1949/--/-- 1 - British author George Orwell publishes the futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1949/--/-- 1 - Civil war ends in Greece with the defeat of the Communist forces.
1949/--/-- 1 - Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China.
1949/--/-- 1 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first chancellor of West Germany.
1949/--/-- 1 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1949/--/-- 1 - Miles Davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 1 - Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek flee to the island of Taiwan.
1949/--/-- 1 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 1 - The Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan is renamed as Jordan.
1949/--/-- 1 - The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies).
1949/--/-- 1 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 1 - The Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established by the Western powers.
1949/--/-- 1 - The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 1 - The Soviets establish the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1949/--/-- 1 - The first India-Pakistan War ends with the partition of Kashmir.
1949/10/-- 1 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1948 Transportation was by:
Foot
Bicycle
Train
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
Jet
In 1948 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1948 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
Gas
Refrigeration
In 1948 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1948 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1948 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Assault rifle
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
In 1948 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
Radar
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:28