Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948 · Event
The UN adopts the first global statement of inalienable human rights, drafted under Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Around 1948
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- NHS founded (1948)