His father died in the second world war and the rest of his family was killed in an earthquake that levelled Ashgabat in 1948.
The half-dozen players at the core of the Aranycsapat – the Golden Squad – were all in the side by 1949: Ferenc Puskas and Nandor Hidegkuti made their international bows in 1945, the goalkeeper Gyula Grosics and defender Jozsef Bozsik in 1947, Sandor Kocsis in 1948 and Zoltan Czibor in 1949.
And the UK government has used every manner of evasion – including trying out the preposterous argument that because the term genocide was adopted by the UN in 1948, it couldn't be applied retrospectively.
JOHN HOWARD DAVIES 1939- (UK) Big break: Oliver Twist (1948) A short life: At nine, he played Oliver in David Lean's classic Dickens adaptation.
Britain's foremost ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, went to France in 1948 to perform with Petit's newly founded company Les Ballets de Paris, and they had a brief but romantic affair.
As Burt Lancaster says to her in I Walk Alone (1948), "What a fall guy I am – thinking just because you're good to look at, you'd be good all the way through!" She was born Emma Matzo, the daughter of John Matzo and his wife Mary (nee Pennock) in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The ballet shoes made for Moira Shearer to dance to her death in 1948's The Red Shoes will be exhibited, along with those blue platforms that saw Naomi Campbell take a tumble on the Vivienne Westwood catwalk in 1993.
But it was at Chicago, where he returned as professor of economics in 1948 and stayed till 1983, that he became an outstanding figure.
The novel, published in 1956, is set in 1950s London and concerns the group of Caribbean immigrants known as the "Windrush" generation, who arrived on the SS Windrush in 1948.
The CDC was set up in 1948 to promote economic development in Britain's colonies.
In 1948, after the collapse of its Detroit franchise, the NBL made history by admitting the first all-black team into an otherwise white professional league.
