Timeline December 1948

Events in December 1948 6

• 1947 – 1948 Broadway Debut Appeared on Broadway, billed as Abbe Marshall, in George Abbott's Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1947) and Michael Todd's As the Girls Go (1948). While performing a calypso number in the latter, she was spotted by Xavier Cugat.
• 1948 Ozzy Osbourne born in Marston Green, Birmingham John Michael Osbourne was born on 3 December 1948 in Marston Green, Warwickshire, and grew up in Aston, a working-class area of Birmingham. His father Jack worked night shifts at a GEC factory; his mother Lillian worked days. He was one of six children. Dyslexic and bullied at school, he left at fifteen and worked in a slaughterhouse, a car factory and as a plumber's apprentice before discovering music.
• 1948 – present Keke Rosberg The Flying Finn II 1982 World Champion who won the title despite winning only one race that season.
• 1948 UN Genocide Convention adopted First human rights treaty of the United Nations On December 9, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, defining genocide as an international crime for the first time. It was adopted in direct response to the atrocities of the Holocaust. The convention entered into force in 1951 after ratification.
• 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted UN General Assembly proclaims a common standard of human rights Meeting in Paris on December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted under the chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt. It set out fundamental rights and freedoms to be universally protected and became the foundation for subsequent international human rights law. The date is still marked annually as Human Rights Day.
• 1948 – present Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Current President The current President of Portugal, serving since 2016.