1947 Calendar

January
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February
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2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728 
March
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      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

April
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6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   
May
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    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
June
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1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

July
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  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
August
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     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
September
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 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    

October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
December
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 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   

What Happened In Year 1947?

  • January 1, 1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became West Germany.
  • January 15, 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
  • January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
  • January 24, 1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • March 25, 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • June 23, 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • June 24, 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
  • July 8, 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
  • August 7, 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
  • August 11, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
  • August 14, 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • August 15, 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
  • August 17, 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
  • September 18, 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
  • September 30, 1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
  • November 20, 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • November 30, 1947 – 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
  • December 2, 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
  • December 17, 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.

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