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| 1948 |
| | | Daniel Malan moves swiftly to reinforce apartheid, South Africa's already existing system of racial segregation | |
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| c. 1948 |
| | | US psychologist B.F. Skinner trains laboratory rats to use their brains in his 'Skinnner box' | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force | |
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| 1948 |
| | | 700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The UN mediator in Palestine, Folke Bernadotte, proposes a peace plan involving the partition of Palestine | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Jewish terrorists, opposed to the partition of Palestine, murder the UN peacemaker Folke Bernadotte | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Donald Bradman retires from Test cricket with a tantalizing career average of 99.94 runs | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ham House is donated by Sir Lyonel Tollemache and his son to the National Trust | |
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| 1948 |
| | | A nine-year civil war begins in Colombia, bringing eventually some 200,000 deaths | |
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