Famous Births
- Dec. 21: Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
- Mar. 22: Wolf Blitzer - CNN Journalist
- Mar. 31: Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth
- May 15: Kathleen Sebelius - Obama Administration
Famous Deaths
- Jan. 30: Orville Wright - Aviation Innovator
- Aug. 16: Babe Ruth - New York Yankees
Chart Toppers
- Jan. 03: Vaughn Monroe - Ballerina
- Feb. 21: Art Mooney - I'm Looking Over a Four...
- Mar. 13: Peggy Lee - Manana
- May 15: Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
- Jul. 03: Kay Kyser - Woody Wood-Pecker
- Aug. 14: Al Trace - You Call Everybody Darlin
- Aug. 28: Pee Wee Hunt - Twelfth Street Rag
- Oct. 09: Margaret Whiting - A Tree in the Meadow
- Oct. 23: Pee Wee Hunt - Twelfth Street Rag
- Nov. 06: Dinah Shore - Buttons and Bows Billboard: Historical Billboard Charts
Top Grossing Films
21st Academy Awards
- Presented on: March 24, 1949
- Best Picture: Hamlet
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda
- Best Director: J. Huston for Treasure of Sierra Madre
- Best Documentary: The Secret Land Rope of Silicon: Oscar Award Winners list
Championship Teams
Top Athletes
Nobel Laureates
1948 Timeline
April 1948
- April 7: The World Health Organization is founded.
May 14 1948
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May 1948
- May 4: Norman Mailer's first novel he Naked and the Dead is published.
June 1948
September 1948
- September 14: Construction begins in New York City on the United Nations headquarters.
- September 24: Honda is founded in Tokyo, Japan
November 1948
- November 2: Harry Truman narrowly defeats Thomas Dewey to be re-elected as President.
December 10 1948
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December 10: The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
December 1948
- December 23: Hideki Tojo and other World War II leaders from Japan are executed in Tokyo.
who invented velcro(1 Answer)
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George de Mestral in 1948. The final design was patented in 1955.
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