1948

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1947 1948 1949

Events

  • Pakistani ISI intelligence agency is established.
  • Pakistani PM Mohammad Ali Jinnah states that Urdu will be the only national language in Pakistan, sets stage for tragedy in 1971.
  • AEC issues Operation Atomic Vision handbook to high schools promising irtual end to economic scarcity, including plastic cars powered by atomic engines.
  • Parliament passes the British Nationality Act.
  • California Supreme Court in Perez v. Sharp repeals California anti-miscegenation statutes.

Timeline

  • January 28: Future President of Liberia and indicted war criminal Charles Taylor is born in Arthington, a town 25 kilometres outside of Monrovia.
  • February: Communist Party takes complete control of Czechoslavakia.
  • March 12: Future Democratic U.S. Senator Kent Conrad is born in Bismark, North Dakota.
  • November: National Security Council (NSC) 20/4 outlines U.S. Grand Strategy to eliminate the Soviet Union as rival to U.S. global hegemony.
  • November 2: Harry S. Truman is elected U.S. President.
  • December 23: Tojo Hideki is hanged at Sugamo Prison.
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