November 1948 in History

Events in History

Nov 1 Mao's Red army conquers Mukden, Manchuria

Election of Interest

Nov 2 US President Harry Truman is re-elected in an upset victory over Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey

Nobel Prize

Nov 4 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature

Event of Interest

Nov 12 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

Nov 12 The first mobile betatron (particle accelerator) begins operation at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland

Event of Interest

Nov 15 Louis St. Laurent is sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of Canada

Event of Interest

Nov 15 Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as Prime Minister of Canada

Nov 17 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
Nov 20 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
Nov 23 Dr Frank G. Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
Nov 25 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco

Event of Interest

Nov 26 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for next 15 years

Nov 27 Honda 1st opens in America
Nov 28 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
Nov 30 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
Nov 30 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin

Birthdays in History

Nov 4 Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali politician, President of Mali (2002-12), born in Mopti, Mali (d. 2020) [1]
Nov 5 Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual, born in Béni Saf, Oran, French Algeria
Nov 5 Hridayananda dasa Goswami, International Society for Krishna Consciousness guru, born in Los Angeles, California
Nov 5 Mel Ab-Owain, Welsh politician
Nov 5 Pepper LaBeija [William Jackson], American drag queen and fashion designer, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2003)
Nov 8 Dale A. Gardner, American naval commander and astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A), born in Fairmont, Minnesota (d. 2014)
Nov 9 Bille August, Danish director (Best Intentions, Twist & Shout), born in Brede, Denmark
Nov 9 Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician, born in Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 10 Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist (World News Now), born in Hopkins, Minnesota

Hassan Rouhani (74 years old)

Nov 12 Iranian politician (President of Iran 2013-), born in Sorkheh, Semnan

Charles III (74 years old)

Nov 14 King of the United Kingdom (2022-) Prince of Wales (1958-2022), born in London, England

Nov 14 Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (D66, 1994-)
Nov 15 Roy P. Dyson, American politician (Rep-D-MD, 1981-2015), born in Great Mills, Maryland
Nov 16 Aline Issermann, French director (Amant Magnifiquew), born in Paris, France
Nov 16 Bonnie Greer, American-British playwright and critic, born in Chicago, Illinois
Nov 17 Howard Dean, American politician, Governor of Vermont (1991-2003), born in East Hampton, New York
Nov 17 Tom Wolf, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (2015-), born in Mount Wolf, Pennsylvania
Nov 18 Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
Nov 20 John Bolton, American security advisor and diplomat (US Ambassador to UN), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 21 George Zimmer, American entrepreneur
Nov 24 Spider Robinson, Canadian sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret)
Nov 25 Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician

Hans Moravec (74 years old)

Nov 30 Austrian-born American computer scientist ("Mind Children"), born in Kautzen, Austria

Weddings in History

Colonel Sanders

Nov 18 KFC founder Colonel Sanders (58) weds his long-time employee Claudia Price

Deaths in History

Nov 10 Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
Nov 16 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American Inventor (electrostatic precipitator), dies at 71
Nov 19 Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer of travel literature (Life on Puka Puka), dies at 52
Nov 25 Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)