| January 1, 1948 |
Georgia ties Maryland 20-20 in the Gator Bowl
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University of Georgia's post-season appearances
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| January 1, 1948 |
Georgia Tech defeats Kansas 20-14 at the Orange Bowl
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| January 17, 1948 |
Lee Hugh Phillips enlists in the Marine Corps Reserve
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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips
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| February 25, 1948 |
Martin Luther King becomes associate minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Av. at the age of 19.
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Martin Luther King
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| March 2, 1948 |
Roy Barnes born, Cobb County, Georgia
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| April 4, 1948 |
Rock/blues musician Berry Oakley born, Chicago, Illinois
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Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band |
| April 10, 1948 |
Football player Mel Blount born, Vidalia, Georgia
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| April 12, 1948 |
Tying the course record, Georgian Claude Harmon wins the Masters at Augusta
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Masters Tournament |
| May 9, 1948 |
New passenger terminal/hanger opens at Atlanta Airport. Its theme was taken from a book by Joel Chandler Harris, one of Atlanta's favorite writers, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings. A black employee sat on a bale of cotton outside the door and recited quotes from the book. At the time Atlanta Airport was ranked 7th in air line operations, actually reaching first place a couple of months each year.
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| June 1, 1948 |
France announces it will join Britain and the United States, and allow its quarter of Germany to merge with "Bizonia" and form "Trizonia" (West Germany) |
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 4, 1948 |
Secretary of Defense transfers functions at the air field in Marietta from the Army to the Air Force
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Marietta, GA |
| June 8, 1948 |
Martin Luther King graduates from Morehouse College with a degree in sociology
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Martin Luther King
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| June 23, 1948 |
West Germany begins printing their own currency. |
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 24, 1948 |
Stalin stops all railroad and truck traffic into the city of Berlin |
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 26, 1948 |
Berlin Air Lift begins
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 28, 1948 |
Clarence Thomas is born, Pinpoint (near Savannah), Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Clarence Thomas |
| July 8, 1948 |
Louise Suggs becomes a professional golfer |
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Louise Suggs |
| July 19, 1948 |
Lee Hugh Phillips joins the Marine Corps
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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips
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| July 28, 1948 |
President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981, banning segregation in all branches of the armed forces
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The Road to Integration
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| August 18, 1948 |
Bobby Jones plays his last round of golf, fittingly at the East Lake Country Club |
| September 29, 1948 |
WSB-TV is dedicated. It is the first commercial television station in Georgia. |
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WSB Atlanta |
| October 4, 1948 |
Walt Kelley, a Yankee from Connecticut, published a comic strip based on characters he created earlier in his life. Pogo was set in the Okefenokee Swamp (Fort Mudge) and began to appear when Kelly was art director for the short-lived New York Star.
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Okefenokee Swamp |
| October 30, 1948 |
Juliette Gordon Low honored with a postage stamp
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Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts |
| October 31, 1948 |
Railroad accident in Edison, Georgia (Calhoun County) claims the lives of three workers on the Seaboard Air Line railroad, on the old Georgia, Florida and Alabama Line track
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Calhoun County, Georgia |
| November 4, 1948 |
James Dickey marries Maxine Syerson
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James Dickey |
| November 5, 1948 |
Bob Barr is born, Johnson City, Iowa
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| November 8, 1948 |
With 100 paintings from the collection of Alfred H. Holbrook, the Georgia Museum of Art opens on the campus of the University of Georgia. |
| December 3, 1948 |
The Board of Governors of the Georgia Bar Association unanimously backs a bill allowing women jurors to be seated |
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Women allowed on jury duty |
