1948

1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades: 1910s  1920s  1930s  – 1940s –  1950s  1960s  1970s
Years: 1945 1946 1947 – 1948 – 1949 1950 1951
1948 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1948
MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2701
Armenian calendar1397
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ
Assyrian calendar6698
Bahá'í calendar104–105
Balinese saka calendar1869–1870
Bengali calendar1355
Berber calendar2898
British Regnal year12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2492
Burmese calendar1310
Byzantine calendar7456–7457
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4644 or 4584
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4645 or 4585
Coptic calendar1664–1665
Discordian calendar3114
Ethiopian calendar1940–1941
Hebrew calendar5708–5709
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2004–2005
 - Shaka Samvat1869–1870
 - Kali Yuga5048–5049
Holocene calendar11948
Igbo calendar948–949
Iranian calendar1326–1327
Islamic calendar1367–1368
Japanese calendarShōwa 23
(昭和２３年)
Javanese calendar1879–1880
Juche calendar37
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4281
Minguo calendarROC 37
民國37年
Nanakshahi calendar480
Thai solar calendar2491
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2074 or 1693 or 921
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2075 or 1694 or 922

Events

Births

Deaths

Movies Released

New Books
  • Ape and Essence – Aldous Huxley
  • Catalina – W. Somerset Maugham
  • Concluding – Henry Green
  • Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
  • The Foundling – Georgette Heyer
  • The Golden Warrior – Hope Muntz
  • Guard of Honor – James Gould Cozzens
  • The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
  • The Hearth and the Eagle – Anya Seton
  • The House of Sleep – Anna Kavan
  • Ides of March – Thornton Wilder
  • John Aubrey and His Friends – Anthony Powell
  • Joseph and His Brothers – Thomas Mann
  • Last Of The Conquerors – William Gardner Smith
  • The Living Is Easy – Dorothy West
  • The Mask of Circe – C. L. Moore
  • Melissa (novel) – Taylor Caldwell
  • My Glorious Brothers – Howard Fast
  • The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
  • Parris Mitchell of King's Row – Henry Bellamann
  • Raintree County – Ross Lockridge, Jr.
  • Seraph On The Sewanee – Zora Neale Hurston
  • Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose – Dr. Seuss
  • The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pène du Bois
  • The White Goddess – Robert Graves
  • The World is Not Enough – Zoe B. Oldenbourg
  • The Young Lions – Irwin Shaw

Hit Songs
  • "Buttons and Bows" – Dinah Shore
  • "Confess" – Doris Day & Buddy Clark
  • "Confess" – Patti Page (the first multi-tracked song)
  • "Deck Of Cards" – Phil Harris
  • "Don't Have To Tell Nobody" – Frankie Laine
  • "Gloria" – The Mills Brothers
  • "I Love You So Much (It Hurts Me)" – The Mills Brothers
  • "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" – Frankie Laine
  • "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" – Art Mooney
  • "I'm My Own Grandpa" – Guy Lombardo & The Guy Lombardo Trio
  • "Is It True What They Say About Dixie" – Al Jolson & The Mills Brothers
  • "It's Magic" – Doris Day
  • "Little White Lies" – Dick Haymes & The Four Hits And A Miss
  • "Love Somebody" – Doris Day & Buddy Clark
  • "Mañana" – Peggy Lee
  • "Monday Again" – Frankie Laine
  • "My Happiness" – The Pied Pipers
  • "My Happiness" – Jon and Sondra Steele
  • "Nature Boy" – Nat King Cole
  • "Nature Boy" – Sarah Vaughan
  • "On A Slow Boat To China" – Kay Kyser, Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
  • "Red River Valley" – Jo Stafford
  • "Red Roses For A Blue Lady" – Vaughn Monroe
  • "Rosetta" – Frankie Laine
  • "So Tired" – Russ Morgan
  • "Someday You'll Want Me To Want You" – Vaughn Monroe
  • "The Things We Did Last Summer" – Georgia Gibbs
  • "A Tree In the Meadow" – Margaret Whiting
  • "Twelfth Street Rag" – Pee Wee Hunt
  • "Underneath the Arches" – Andrews Sisters
  • "What Could Be Sweeter" – Frankie Laine
  • "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" – Georgia Gibbs
  • "Woody Woodpecker" – Kay Kyser
  • "You Call Everybody Darlin'" – Al Trace
  • "You Can't Be True, Dear" – Ken Griffin
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