What Happened in 1948

Porsche 356 is First Produced

The Porsche 356 was the company's first production automobile. It was a lightweight and nimble handling rear-engine rear-wheel-drive 2 door sports... Read more

Ford Vedette is First Produced

The Ford Vedette was a large car manufactured by Ford France SA in their factory in Poissy from 1948 to 1954. Introduced at the 1948 Mondial de... Read more

Castle & Cooke Enters Tuna Packing Business

Castle & Cooke enters the tuna packing business by purchasing 41% of the stock and a few years later 97% of the stock of Hawaiian Tuna Packers. Read more

George H.W. and Barbara Bush Move to Texas Where George Begins at an Oil Company

George and Barbara Bush moved their young son cross-country to Texas in 1948, where the senior Bush began his career in the oil business as a... Read more

Ford F-Series is First Produced

The F-Series is a series of full-size pickup trucks from Ford Motor Company sold for over five decades. The most popular variant of the F-Series is... Read more

Burma Becomes An Independent Nation

On January 4, 1948, the British colony of Burma, now Myanmar, became an independent nation after more than sixty years of colonial rule. England... Read more

The Ministries Trial (or, officially, The United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al.)

The Ministries Trial (or, officially, The United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al.) was the eleventh of the twelve trials for war... Read more

Mahatma Gandhi Announces Fast to End Hindu/Muslim Violence in Delhi

He conducted extensive dialogue with Muslim and Hindu community leaders, working to cool passions in northern India, as well as in Bengal. Despite... Read more

Plane Chartered by the U.S. Immigration Services Crashes

On January 28, 1948, a twin-engine DC-3C chartered by the U.S. Immigration Service from Airline Transport Carriers of Burbank, California crashed... Read more

V Olympic Winter Games Held in St. Moritz, Switzerland

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz,... Read more

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is Assassinated by Nathuram Godse

On January 30, 1948, Madanlal Pahwa, Shankar Kistaiya, Digambar Badge, Vishnu Karkare, Gopal Godse, Nathuram Godse, and Narayan Apte came to Birla... Read more

G-AHNP Star Tiger Disappears

G-AHNP Star Tiger was an Avro Tudor Mark IV passenger aircraft owned and operated by British South American Airways (BSAA) which disappeared... Read more

Rick James is Born

Rick James (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular R&B and funk... Read more

1948 Ben Yehuda Street bombing

On February 22, 1948, as the conflict over the coming partition of Palestine grew, three British Army trucks led by an armoured car driven by Arab... Read more

The Czechoslovakia Coup

During the winter of 1947-48, both in the cabinet and in parliament tension between the Communists and their opponents led to increasingly bitter... Read more

Ronald Reagan Appears as Sergeant Bill Page in "The Voice of the Turtle"

Budding actress Sally Middleton agrees to a date with Bill Page, a soldier on a weekend pass, after he's stood up by her worldly friend, Olive.... Read more

Burning Spear Is Born

Winston Rodney, OD (born March 1, 1948), also known as Burning Spear, is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Like... Read more

Agatha Christie publishes Taken at the Flood

Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under... Read more

"I Remember Mama" Is Released

The play was adapted for a 1948 feature film written by DeWitt Bodeen and directed by George Stevens. The film begins with eldest daughter... Read more

"Sitting Pretty" Is Released

Sitting Pretty (1948) is a comedy film which tells the story of a family who hires a man with a mysterious past to babysit their children. It stars... Read more

Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 Crashes, Killing 30

Northwest flight 4422 was a non-scheduled charter flight en route from Shanghai-Lunghwa Airport to La Guardia Field. An intermediate stop was made... Read more

20th Academy Awards

The 20th Academy Awards spread awards around, with no film receiving more than 3 awards, the last time this would happen until the 78th Academy... Read more

Kentucky Beats Baylor in NCAA Men's Basketball Championship

The 1948 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of... Read more

"The Search" Is Released

The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other... Read more

Truman Signs the Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and... Read more