✦ History

Explore March 29, 1947 – February 1, 1949

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07

People

Joseph Stalin age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 53
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 62
President - United States
Hirohito age 45
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 56
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 59
President - Republic of China
George VI age 51
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 54
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 27
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 62
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 27
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 46
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 63
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 40
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Zongren age 56
President - Republic of China
Shukri al-Quwatli age 55
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 42
President - Guatemala
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 43
President - Cuba
Trygve Lie age 50
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 57
Prime Minister - India
Kim Il-sung age 34
Premier - North Korea
David Ben-Gurion age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 54
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 76
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 51
Prime Minister - Poland
Tetsu Katayama age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Hitoshi Ashida age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
D. F. Malan age 72
Prime Minister - South Africa
J. Sigfrid Edström age 76
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yen Hsi-shan age 63
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 50
Director-General - World Health Organization
Zhang Qun age 57
Premier - Republic of China
John J. McCloy age 52
President - World Bank
Sun Fo age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 58
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Weng Wenhao age 57
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 38
Prime Minister - Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo age 54
Prime Minister - Cuba
Fred M. Vinson age 57
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 69
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 61
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 71
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 51
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George C. Marshall age 66
Secretary of State - United States
Omar Bradley age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Acheson age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Forrestal age 55
Secretary of Defense - United States
Tom C. Clark age 47
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 56
Secretary of War - United States
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 52
Secretary of War - United States
Manny Shinwell age 62
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 64
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 52
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 72
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 31
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Dalton age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 41
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 54
President - African National Congress
Clement Davies age 63
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
John Hynd age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 67
President - Sinn Féin
Lyndon B. Johnson age 38
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 35
Senate - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 43
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 52
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Foot age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 29
House of Representatives - United States
George Brown age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 51
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 56
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 45
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 33
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 51
Governor of Ohio - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 54
Governor of Texas - United States
Sid McMath age 34
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 50
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Paul A. Dever age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 50
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 54
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 63
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 24
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 19
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 54
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 45
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 71
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 51
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 24
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 72
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 62
President - Turkey
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 66
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 74
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 65
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 88
King - Sweden
Juliana of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Christian X of Denmark age 76
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 25
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 76
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 48
King - Denmark
Lord Mountbatten age 46
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Renner age 76
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Luigi Einaudi age 73
President - Italy
Enrico de Nicola age 69
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 37
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 54
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 66
President - Iceland
Rómulo Gallegos age 62
President - Venezuela
Manuel Roxas age 55
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 51
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 47
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 39
President - Venezuela
Elpidio Quirino age 56
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 40
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 51
President - Nicaragua
William Tubman age 51
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 77
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 76
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 36
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 62
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 42
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 64
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 48
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 56
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 47
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 49
President - Peru
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 53
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 55
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 41
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 71
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 60
President - Albania
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 38
President - Venezuela
Enrique Hertzog age 49
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 62
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 46
President - Haiti
Philipp Etter age 55
President - Switzerland
Higinio Morínigo age 50
President - Paraguay
Josip Vidmar age 51
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 49
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 49
President - Paraguay
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 47
President - Costa Rica
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 59
President - Honduras
Sao Shwe Thaik age 50
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 92
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Berreta age 71
President - Uruguay
Ernst Nobs age 60
President - Switzerland
Juan Manuel Frutos age 67
President - Paraguay
Enrico Celio age 57
President - Switzerland
Raimundo Rolón age 44
President - Paraguay
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 46
President - Peru
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 45
Regent - Lesotho
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 36
President - Indonesia
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 74
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 59
President - Panama