January 1948 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1948 Britain nationalizes its railways.
• 02 Jan 1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
• 04 Jan 1948 Burma declares independence from the UK
• 07 Jan 1948 US President Harry Truman raises taxes for Marshall plan.
• 10 Jan 1948 Call Me Mister play closes at National Theater in New York City, New York after 734 performances.
• 12 Jan 1948 1st Supermarket in the UK opens
• 13 Jan 1948 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
• 16 Jan 1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon.
• 17 Jan 1948 Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in New York City
• 21 Jan 1948 West Indies versus England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker.
• 22 Jan 1948 British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
• 23 Jan 1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, versus India at Adelaide.
• 24 Jan 1948 Music in My Heart closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 performances
• 26 Jan 1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
• 27 Jan 1948 1st tape recorder sold
• 29 Jan 1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and Philadelphia Phillies US$500 each for signing high school players.
• 30 Jan 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
• 31 Jan 1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway.

Famous Birthday

• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dancer.

• Linda Susan Agar
• John Carpenter

  American director of "Dark Star" 1974, "Halloween" 1978 and "Starman" 1984.

• John Carpenter

  American director of "Dark Star" 1974, "Halloween" 1978 and "Starman" 1984.

• Ronnie Van Zant

  American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977).

• Kenny Loggins

  American singer and songwriter, two-time Grammy winner whose '80s hits include "Footloose" and "I'm Alright.

• Elizabeth Cooper
• Gonzague Saint Bris
• Patrice Drevet
• Alain Afflelou

  French retailer, born in a jewish Algerian family, specialized in optical services and sales.

• Bernard Thévenet

  French cyclist road racer, a two-time winner of the Tour de France (1975 and 1977) after a second rank in 1974.

• Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
• Louis Chedid
• Donald Fagen

  American singer-songwriter and pianist (Steely Dan).

• Jõao Vanin
• Natalie Goldberg

  American writer of texts on writing, teaching, conferences.

• Charles Taylor

  Liberian politician 22nd President of Liberia.

• Marc Singer

  Canadian-American actor.

• María Seoane
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Famous Deaths

• Maria Mandel

  Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948).

• Willem Louis Frederic Landre

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Raoul Auernheimer

  Writer.

• Ignaz Friedman

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Mahatma Ghandi

  Murdered by Hindu extremists in India.

• Anna "Ans" van Dike

  Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at age 42.

• Herb Pennock

  pitcher (New York Yankees)/general manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies.

• Vicente Huidobro

  Chilean poet (Born 1893).

• John Lomax

  American musicologist and folklorist (Born 1867).

• Hermann K J Zilcher

  German pianist / Composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66.

• Prince Aimone

  Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (Born 1900).

• Arthur Coningham

  New Zealand air commander (Born 1895).

• Tony Garnier

  French architect and urban planner who, at the turn of the century, designed a city of the future.

• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

  Italian composer, most successful in the field of comic opera.

• Therese Brandl

  German concentration camp guard (d. 1947).

• Kurt Schwitters

  German painter and illustrator (d. 1948).

• Arthur Liebehenschel

  Polish-born German concentration camp commandant (d. 1948).

• Hans Aumeier

  German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (Born 1906).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Buddy Clark - Ballerina
2. Two-Ton Baker - Too Fat Polka
3. Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Beg Your Pardon
4. Larry Green & His Orchestra - Beg Your Pardon
5. Bing Crosby - Ballerina