• 1948 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1948: In Thailand,...
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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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  • 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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  • The 1948 Gozo luzzu disaster occurred on 30 October 1948 when a luzzu fishing boat carrying passengers from Marfa, on the island of Malta, to Mġarr, Gozo...
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    The 1948 Donora smog killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the...
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  • United Kingdom, United States and other places) Attard, Eddie (28 October 2012). "The 1948 Ħondoq ir-Rummien tragedy". Times of Malta. Retrieved 25 January...
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  • academic and politician, 66th Prime Minister of Belgium 1948 – Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (d. 1999) 1948 – Michael Kitchen, English actor and producer 1949...
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  • Armoured Division. 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary. 1948 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture...
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  • During the 1948 Palestine war in which the State of Israel was established, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs, or 85% of the total population of the territory...
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  • Canada. 1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. 1948 – Ecological...
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  • The 1948 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1948 season. The 45th edition of the World Series, it matched the American...
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    autumn of 1948, including the depopulation of Beersheba (21 October), the al-Dawayima massacre (29 October), and the Safsaf massacre (also 29 October). That...
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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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    Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday...
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  • Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1948 – Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis,...
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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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  • During the 1948 Palestine war, massacres and acts of terror were conducted by and against both sides. A campaign of massacres and violence against the...
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    The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution...
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    A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Monday, October 18, 1948. It was a relatively rare total penumbral lunar eclipse where the moon passes entirely...
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  • The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake was on 6 October with a surface-wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), in Turkmenistan near...
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  • The Weaker Sex is a 1948 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker and Joan Hopkins. It was written by Esther...
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  • The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer)...
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  • Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great...
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  • (May 1, 1948). "Jewish Troops Surround Arab Points as Arabs Plan Wearing Down War". The Spartanberg Herald. Associated Press. Retrieved 20 October 2024....
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    Paola Severino (born 22 October 1948) is an Italian lawyer, academic and politician. She served as Minister of Justice in the Monti cabinet from November...
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  • American actress 1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist 1948 – John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author 1948 – Stephen Rucker...
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  • Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 American supernatural film based on the 1940 novella by Robert Nathan. The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced...
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  • Instrument of Accession with India, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Kashmir conflict. 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the...
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  • Pedro López (serial killer) (category 1948 births)
    Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948 – disappeared September 1999), also known as The Monster of the Andes, is a Colombian serial killer, child rapist...
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    Carter turned down the part of Richard Long's wife in Ma and Pa Kettle in October 1948; Meg Randall played the role. In November Hedda Hopper reported that...
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