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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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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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1948 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1948
MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2701
Armenian calendar1397
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Assyrian calendar6698
Baháʼí 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
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