1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 6, 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- February 28, 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- March 12, 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- March 25, 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- April 16, 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- April 30, 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
- May 22, 1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
- July 1, 1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
- July 4, 1947 – The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.
- July 10, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- August 4, 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- October 1, 1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- October 24, 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- November 20, 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- December 22, 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- December 30, 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
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