December 1948 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player.
• 02 Dec 1948 Stan Musial is picked National League Most Valuable Player.
• 03 Dec 1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
• 04 Dec 1948 Magdalena closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
• 05 Dec 1948 New York Giants' Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions.
• 08 Dec 1948 Marinka closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
• 11 Dec 1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 12 Dec 1948 Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre : 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
• 15 Dec 1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury.
• 16 Dec 1948 Lend an Ear opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
• 18 Dec 1948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 19 Dec 1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history
• 20 Dec 1948 Second Chamber accepts second Police Action in Indonesia.
• 21 Dec 1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence.
• 22 Dec 1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 23 Dec 1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
• 24 Dec 1948 First US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover, Massachusetts).
• 26 Dec 1948 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty arrested
• 28 Dec 1948 IDF crosses Egyptian border
• 29 Dec 1948 Rape of Lucretia opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
• 30 Dec 1948 Kiss Me, Kate opens at New Century Theater in New York City for 1077 performances.
• 31 Dec 1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike

Famous Birthday

• Gérard Depardieu

  French actor with a rough, heavy face, great charisma and a gift for comedy.

• Ozzy Osbourne

  British rock star known for extravagant if crude showmanship.

• Samuel L Jackson

  American actor.

• Laurent Voulzy

  French singer and composer, spent his childhood with his mother, dancer from Guadeloupe, in the suburb of Paris.

• Donna Summer

  American singer who began her career by singing with a number of Boston rock groups, Tested for a role in the Broadway production of the...

• Edmund Kemper

  American serial murderer and necrophiliac.

• Edwige Fenech

  French-born Italian actress and film producer.

• Noël Mamère

  French journalist and politician.

• Françoise de Panafieu
• Thierry Mugler

  French fashion designer, he also created several perfumes.

• Ted Nugent

  Guitarist.

• Noel Edmonds

  British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders).

• Christopher Biggins

  English actor and television presenter.

• Joe Dallesandro

  American actor, model and 'Warhol superstar.

• Patrizia Gucci
• Pascal Bruckner

  French writer and "new philosopher", born to an Alsatian, Protestant, and Anti-semitic father.

• Alan Parsons

  English keyboard player and producer (The Alan Parsons Project).

• Barbara Mandrell

  American entertainer, TV personality and singer who was twice named Entertainer of the Year, in 1980 and 1981.

• Tom Wilkinson

  Movie Actor.

• Tom Wilkinson

  Movie Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Godfrey Turner

  Composer, dies at 35.

• Reginald Owen Morris

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Janet Fay

  Hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers.

• C Aubrey Smith

  Actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85.

• Seishiro Itagaki

  Japanese General / Minister of War, hanged.

• Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha

  Prime Minister of Egypt (19.

• Edgar Istel

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Hideki Tojo

  Prime Minister of Japan (1941-44) and 6 Japanese, hanged for war crimes at 64.

• Karl Bonhoeffer

  German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies.

• Frank Benford

  American electrical engineer and physicist (Born 1883).

• Denham Fouts

  American male prostitute and socialite (d. 1948).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Twelfth Street Rag