Timeline August 1948

Events in August 1948 9

• 1862 – 1948 Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) Died 27 August 1948, aged 86 Charles Evans Hughes, who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and previously as a presidential candidate and Secretary of State, died on August 27, 1948. He led the Court through much of the New Deal era, including its early clashes with Franklin Roosevelt over reform legislation. He remains one of the few Americans to have held such a range of senior public offices.
• 1895 – 1948 Babe Ruth (1895-1948) Died 16 August 1948, aged 53 George Herman "Babe" Ruth, the baseball slugger who redefined the sport with the New York Yankees, died of cancer on August 16, 1948. His 714 career home runs and outsized personality made him one of the most famous American athletes of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands filed past his coffin as it lay in state at Yankee Stadium.
• 1948 1948 Summer Olympics XIV Olympiad - London The "Austerity Games" post-WWII. Winner: USA.
• 1948 Hank Williams joins the Louisiana Hayride Shreveport Becomes a star on the radio show.
• 1948 The Alger Hiss hearings Nixon drives the HUAC investigation The case made him a national figure and a hero of the anti-communist right.
• 1948 US Championships 1948 Men: Pancho González · Women: Margaret Osborne duPont
• 1948 Mileva dies Alone in Zurich, after decades caring for Eduard Mileva Maric died in August 1948 following a stroke, having spent her later years struggling to pay for Eduard's care. The houses bought with the Nobel money had mostly been sold off. Einstein arranged continued payments for his son from Princeton.
• 1948 Republic of Korea established Syngman Rhee inaugurated as South Korea's first president The Republic of Korea was formally established on August 15, 1948, in the US-occupied southern half of the Korean peninsula, with Syngman Rhee as its first president. The declaration followed elections held under UN supervision in May 1948. Weeks later a separate communist state was proclaimed in the north, cementing the peninsula's division.
• 1948 – present Sauli Niinistö The NATO President The 12th President who oversaw Finlands historic entry into NATO in 2023.