Clockwise, from top left: Israeli Declaration of Independence; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signing the Treaty of Brussels; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London, United Kingdom; The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; a damaged building after the 1948 Fukui earthquake; an Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500 lb (230 kg) bombs in the Malayan Emergency; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade.
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1948 in various calendars
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) 4645 or 4438 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4646 or 4439
Coptic calendar
1664–1665
Discordian calendar
3114
Ethiopian calendar
1940–1941
Hebrew calendar
5708–5709
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2004–2005
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1869–1870
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5048–5049
Holocene calendar
11948
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948–949
Iranian calendar
1326–1327
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1367–1368
Japanese calendar
Shōwa 23 (昭和２３年)
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1879–1880
Juche calendar
37
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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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