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Date	Event
January 1, 1947	Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
January 1, 1947	The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens.
January 3, 1947	Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 6, 1947	Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
January 15, 1947	The Black Dahlia murder: The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
January 22, 1947	KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
January 25, 1947	Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
February 10, 1947	The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
February 12, 1947	The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
February 12, 1947	Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
February 18, 1947	First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
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 23, 1947	International Organization for Standardization is founded.
February 25, 1947	The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
February 25, 1947	Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.
February 28, 1947	February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
March 1, 1947	The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
March 12, 1947	Cold War: 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.
March 29, 1947	Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
April 1, 1947	The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
April 6, 1947	The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
April 9, 1947	The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 9, 1947	The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
April 9, 1947	United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
April 15, 1947	Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
April 16, 1947	An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
April 16, 1947	Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
April 18, 1947	The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.
April 28, 1947	Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
April 30, 1947	In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
May 1, 1947	Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
May 3, 1947	New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
May 22, 1947	Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
May 29, 1947	United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43.
May 31, 1947	Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
June 5, 1947	Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
June 10, 1947	Saab produces its first automobile.
June 19, 1947	Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.
June 23, 1947	The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
June 24, 1947	Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
June 25, 1947	The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
July 1, 1947	The Philippine Air Force is established.
July 4, 1947	The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
July 6, 1947	Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
July 6, 1947	The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
July 8, 1947	Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
July 10, 1947	Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
July 11, 1947	The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
July 19, 1947	Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
July 19, 1947	Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
July 26, 1947	Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
July 27, 1947	In Vatican City, Rome, canonization of Catherine Labouré, the saint whose apparitions of the Virgin Mary originated the worldwide diffusion of the Miraculous Medal.[4]
August 2, 1947	A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
August 4, 1947	The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
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, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 7, 1947	The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
August 14, 1947	Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
August 15, 1947	India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule 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 the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
September 9, 1947	First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
September 15, 1947	Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
September 18, 1947	The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.
September 30, 1947	The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
September 30, 1947	Pakistan joins the United Nations.
October 1, 1947	The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
October 5, 1947	President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
October 14, 1947	Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
October 16, 1947	The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
October 20, 1947	Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
October 22, 1947	The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
October 24, 1947	Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
October 26, 1947	Partition of India: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Kashmir conflict.
October 30, 1947	The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
November 2, 1947	In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
November 6, 1947	Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
November 13, 1947	The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 17, 1947	The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
November 17, 1947	American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
November 18, 1947	The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
November 20, 1947	The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
November 25, 1947	Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
November 25, 1947	New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 29, 1947	The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
November 29, 1947	French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during the First Indochina War.
November 30, 1947	Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
December 2, 1947	Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Arabs riot in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
December 17, 1947	First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
December 23, 1947	The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
December 30, 1947	Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.