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1948 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1948 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1948

• January 1, 1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
• February 10, 1948 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
• March 17, 1948 – The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
• April 9, 1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
• May 3, 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
• May 9, 1948 – Czechoslovakia’s Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• June 25, 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
• September 5, 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
• September 18, 1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
• December 28, 1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.

Who Were Born On 1948?

• January 30, 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician and academic
• March 1, 1948 – Burning Spear, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• March 4, 1948 – Brian Cummings, American voice actor and singer
• May 13, 1948 – Dean Meminger, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• May 25, 1948 – Bülent Arınç, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• August 7, 1948 – Antonis Vardis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• August 8, 1948 – Susan Himmelweit, English economist and academic
• September 3, 1948 – Fotis Kouvelis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
• September 19, 1948 – Jan Hoag, American actress
• October 21, 1948 – Tom Everett, American actor and singer