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July 12–14 – 1948 Democratic National Convention (Philadelphia) July 17 – Dixiecrat National Convention (Birmingham) July 20 – Cold War : President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President ...
1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman is elected president for a full term, Alben W. Barkley is elected vice president; 1948 – Truman desegregates armed forces; 1948 – Selective Service Act of 1948: Passed after first such act expired; 1948 – Organization of American States: Alliance of North America and South America
New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964 – Economic Opportunity Act; 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of legalized discrimination against blacks and women, and ended legalized racial segregation in the United States
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Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, first volume of his history The Second World War. T. S. Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter. Aldous Huxley's novel Ape and Essence. F. R. Leavis's literary criticism The Great Tradition. Nevil Shute's novel No Highway. Evelyn Waugh's novel The ...
1948 in the United States by state or territory (52 C) 1948 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1948 disestablishments in the United States (31 C, 22 P)
The following lists events that happened during 1948 in Australia. 1948 in Australia; ... Other events of 1948; Timeline of Australian history; Incumbents