1947 Calendar
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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