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1948 Free History Poster Makes An Ideal Birthday or Christmas Gift
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This Printable 8 1/2 inch X 11 inch poster is suitable for placing in a picture frame or to hand out during Birthday Celebrations or as a Christmas Gift. The new Graphics also resize to Birthday / Christmas Card size and still look pretty good, so ideal to use as an unusual card idea.
Featured In This 1948 Poster / Print
A Range of What Things Cost , Popular Movies and Music, Born This Year
Important Events From The Year including the following The National Party of the Dutch Afrikaners begins the
policy of apartheid in South Africa
• Sri Lanka gains independence from Great Britain
• The Western European Treaty is signed
• The Foreign Assistance Act (The Marshall Plan) is
agreed to provide more than $13 billion in aid to war
torn Europe between 1948 and 1951
• The United Nations creates the World Health
Organization (WHO)
• The United Nations General Assembly adopts the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights
• The British National Health Service Act creates the
NHS
• NASCAR holds its first race for modified stock cars
at Daytona beach
• The United States and Great Britain begin a massive
airlift of food, water, and medicine on June 26 to West
Berlin after the Soviet Blockade
• The Summer Olympics are held in London
• Instances of Polio (Infantile paralysis) increase around
the world
• Earthquake in Turkmenistan USSR kills 110,000 people
• Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is
murdered on January 26
This free print is available for all to use is created by The People History and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ( I.E. Just include an Attribute to The People History When Using Online and Leave Our Copy write Notice Thanks ) The graphic includes news, pop culture, prices and more is also ideal for use when making a 1948 scrapbook for family, friends birthday, Christmas or Wedding Anniversary celebrations or for use with school reunion