Historical Events in 1948
35 curated events dated to this year, and 89 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1948
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Berlin Airlift sustains a city by aircraft
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Empire Windrush Arrives at Tilbury
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Palestinian Nakba
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The Founding of the McDonald's Fast Food System by the McDonald Brothers
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World Health Organization Established
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Final Illness and Writing of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'
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McDonald's introduces the Speedee Service System
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Republic of Ireland Act Declares Full Republic
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United Kingdom National Assistance Act Passed
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Arrival of the Windrush Generation
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Awarded the Bollingen Prize
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Columbia Introduces the Long-Playing Record
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Death of Anna Guest
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First Bathyscaphe FNRS-2 Tested
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Founding of Israel
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Léopold Sédar Senghor Publishes 'Anthology of the New Negro and Malagasy Poetry'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Companion'
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Publication of 'The Poetry of Witter Bynner'
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Senghor's Negritude Anthology Appears in Paris
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The Founding of the Tupperware Home Demonstration Party System
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted
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Warfarin Commercialised as a Rodenticide
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Blasting Begins at the Crazy Horse Memorial
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Establishment of the People's Bank of China
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Founding of the World Council of Churches
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Friendship with Patrick Kavanagh
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Honorary Degree from Cambridge University
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Marshall Plan and European Cultural Reconstruction
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The Tragic Devotion of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann
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WHO Global Sanitation Initiatives Post-WWII
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Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
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Tape recorder commercial availability
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Commercial Launch of Tupperware
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First Aerial Topdressing in New Zealand
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Publication of 'The Long Poems' by Louis MacNeice
Poets alive in 1948
89 poets
Poets in 1948
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