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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.
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Happenings in 1948
From top to bottom, left to right: The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London, United Kingdom; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade; a Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500lb bombs in the Malayan Emergency;
Photo of a damaged building taken by Bert Cohen after the 1948 Fukui earthquake; Israeli Declaration of Independence; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin Signing the Treaty of Brussels; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1948 MCMXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2701 |
| Armenian calendar | 1397 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6698 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 104–105 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1869–1870 |
| Bengali calendar | 1355 |
| Berber calendar | 2898 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2492 |
| Burmese calendar | 1310 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7456–7457 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4644 or 4584 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4645 or 4585 |
| Coptic calendar | 1664–1665 |
| Discordian calendar | 3114 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1940–1941 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5708–5709 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2004–2005 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1869–1870 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5048–5049 |
| Holocene calendar | 11948 |
| Igbo calendar | 948–949 |
| Iranian calendar | 1326–1327 |
| Islamic calendar | 1367–1368 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 23 (昭和２３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1879–1880 |
| Juche calendar | 37 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4281 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 37 民國37年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 480 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2491 |
| 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 |
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