Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1948. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Mahatma Gandhi leader of Indian nationalism & non-violent civil disobedience is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

February: Miranda the smallest & innermost of Uranus's 5 major moons discovered by Gerard Kuiper at McDonald Observatory.

March: Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the U.S. other clubs also form.

April: Ralph Alpher & George Gamow publish their paper 'The Origin of Chemical Elements' known today as 'The Big Bang Theory'.

May: David Ben-Gurion declares the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

June: Columbia Records introduces its long playing 33 1/3 rpm record format. It will soon be adopted as the new industry standard.

July: The 1948 Olympics open in London. The first after a 12 year break due to World War II. The last being the 1936 Games in Berlin.

August: Alger Hiss denies accusations by Whittaker Chambers that he is a Soviet spy. He will maintain his innocence until his death.

September: Kim Il-sung formally declares the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He will rule the country until his death in 1994.

October: T.S. Eliot, one of the most important English language poets of the 20th century, is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

November: The Takahe, a flightless bird thought to be extinct, is rediscovered by Geoffrey B. Orbell near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.

December: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.