1948
ID: 1600
White promoted to FBN District Supervisor of San Francisco office
ID: 1600
1948
ID: 1601
Luciano appears in Mexico organizing drug operations; Maxwell acquired European scientific journal publishing rights
ID: 1601
1948
ID: 1602
London Agreement allows German courts to handle war crimes
ID: 1602
1948
ID: 1603
Schacht receives 8-year sentence from German denazification court, immediately released
ID: 1603
1948
ID: 1604
German 'Spruchkammer' courts begin mass acquittals of transferred Nazi war criminals
ID: 1604
1948
ID: 1605
BIS reinvents itself as central bank forum; Allen Dulles's CIA uses BIS for covert operations
ID: 1605
1948
ID: 1606
IG Farben Trial verdicts: 13 executives convicted, 11 acquitted; maximum sentence only 8 years
ID: 1606
1948
ID: 1608
Stephen Schwartz born to Jewish father and Protestant minister's daughter, both anti-religious
ID: 1608
1948
ID: 1609
Shannon publishes complete mathematical theory of communication
ID: 1609
1948
ID: 1610
The transistor is invented at Bell Labs, beginning the semiconductor materials revolution
ID: 1610
1948
ID: 1611
Velcro first produced commercially by Georges de Mestral
ID: 1611
1948
ID: 1612
Dr. Klenner achieves 100% cure rate for 60 polio cases with vitamin C
ID: 1612
1948
ID: 1613
Contrast: 200-300 vaccination deaths vs. only 1 smallpox death this year
ID: 1613
1948
ID: 1614
Dr. Byers warning: 15 brain damage cases 'within hours' of pertussis vaccination
ID: 1614
1948
ID: 4243
IBM introduces Type 604 Electronic Calculating Punch - 1,400 vacuum tubes, programmable via plugboard
ID: 4243
1948
ID: 4255
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation faces severe financial difficulties - seeks buyer to continue UNIVAC development
ID: 4255
1948
ID: 4489
Claude Shannon publishes 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' founding information theory
ID: 4489
1948
ID: 4564
John von Neumann develops theory of self-reproducing automata - theoretical foundation for cellular automata and artificial life
ID: 4564
1948
ID: 4567
Norbert Wiener publishes 'Cybernetics' - control and communication in animals and machines
ID: 4567
1948
ID: 5611
German machine tool industry rebuilds after war - focus on precision and quality establishes 'German engineering' reputation
ID: 5611
1948
ID: 1607
March 2, 1948
FBI document reports approximately 30,000 Communist Party members in New York City area alone
ID: 1607
1948
ID: 4298
June 21, 1948
Manchester Baby runs first stored-program - world's first electronic stored-program computer executes software
ID: 4298