WHAT HAPPENED IN 1948.
Look what happened the 1948.

In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. (5. September 1948)

Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. (6. September 1948)

Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (9. September 1948)

Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah's death. (12. September 1948)

Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union. (13. September 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate. (13. September 1948)

The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). (15. September 1948)

The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. (17. September 1948)

The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. (17. September 1948)

Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army. (18. September 1948)

Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies. (18. September 1948)

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. (18. September 1948)

The Honda Motor Company is founded. (24. September 1948)

The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000. (5. October 1948)

Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. (27. October 1948)

Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. (28. October 1948)

Safsaf massacre. (29. October 1948)

Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks. (1. November 1948)

Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned. (1. November 1948)

Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins. (6. November 1948)