1940s Timeline

Timeline

1948

In The News


Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated

The Marshall Plan was enacted to aid Europe

Soviets blockaded Berlin; West began Berlin airlift

Israel was created

U.S. and European allies drafted a plan creating West Germany

Chinese communists declared Republic of China

Japanese Prime Minister Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes

Top Recordings


I'm Looking Over a Four-leaf Clover (Art Moonie)

Manana (Peggy Lee)

Nature Boy (Nat Cole)

Love Somebody (Doris Day)

Buttons and Bows (Dinah Shore)

It's Magic (Doris Day)

Because (Perry Como)

Now is the Hour (Bing Crosby)

My Darling, My Darling (Doris Day)

My Happiness (Ella Fitzgerald)

Woody Woodpecker (Kaye Kyser)

A Tree in the Meadow (Margaret Whiting)

Interesting Facts...


World Health Organization

The "big bang" theory

McDonald's Restaurant

LP (long-playing) record

Velcro invented by George de Mestral

At The Cinema


Hamlet

Johnny Belinda

The Red Shoes

The Snake Pit

The Treasure of Sierre Madre

I Remember Mama

Sorry, Wrong Number

Key Largo

The Naked City

The Three Musketeers

Best Actress:
Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

Best Actor:
Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)