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Clockwise, from top left: A overcrowded train transferring many refugees, the roof is completely packed, about 4 doors are seen and people are seen struggling to get in to the right of this image, a seperate map of europe is shown, where Iceland, Ireland, The United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, italy, Greece and Turkey are colored in a moderate tone of green, inside of the borders there is a blue bar that extends upwards, the tallest ones being Britain, France and Western Germany/ The Low Lands, the third image shows President Truman giving a speech on a desk, you can see a table in front of him and he appears to be sitting, to the right of this image, a United Nations room can be seen, a big flat image of a globe centering the world can be seen, in front of it are three people seating followed by a person standing, talking, and a entire room of peopl eseated, looking forward towards the man speaking, the bottom two pictures are the ruins of a ship, taken from a camera which shows a blurry image of a ship that is damaged, the last image shows about 11 soldiers fighting in a field during the Indian-Pakistan war of 1947 to 1948.
From the left to right and top to bottom: An overcrowded train transferring refugees from Delhi to Pakistan during the Partition of India; A map showing the aid which will be allocated to European countries in 1948 under the Marshall Plan; President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress, in a speech which would become known as the Truman Doctrine, officially beginning the Cold War; UN general assembly in NYC, Queens, 1947, to vote for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; The SS High Flyer or SS Wilson B. Keene, three days after the Texas City disaster, which killed approximately 581 people; Indian soldiers fighting during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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1947 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1947
MCMXLVII
Ab urbe condita2700
Armenian calendar1396
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6697
Baháʼí calendar103–104
Balinese saka calendar1868–1869
Bengali calendar1354
Berber calendar2897
British Regnal year11 Geo. 6 – 12 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2491
Burmese calendar1309
Byzantine calendar7455–7456
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4644 or 4437
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4645 or 4438
Coptic calendar1663–1664
Discordian calendar3113
Ethiopian calendar1939–1940
Hebrew calendar5707–5708
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2003–2004
 - Shaka Samvat1868–1869
 - Kali Yuga5047–5048
Holocene calendar11947
Igbo calendar947–948
Iranian calendar1325–1326
Islamic calendar1366–1367
Japanese calendarShōwa 22
(昭和22年)
Javanese calendar1878–1879
Juche calendar36
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4280
Minguo calendarROC 36
民國36年
Nanakshahi calendar479
Thai solar calendar2490
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2073 or 1692 or 920
    — to —
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2074 or 1693 or 921

1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.

It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Events

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January

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January 1: Nigeria gains autonomy.

February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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Marshall Plan.

July

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'Flying Disc' photos published in Phoenix press on July 9

August

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Flag of Pakistan, the country that gained independence on August 14, 1947
Flag of India, the country that gained independence on August 15, 1947 and became the largest democracy in the world.

September

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), officially born September 18, 1947

October

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November

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December

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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David Bowie
Andrea Martin
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Michio Kaku
Jonathan Banks

February

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Farrah Fawcett
Yukio Hatoyama
Edward James Olmos
Lee Evans

March

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Rob Reiner
Kim Campbell
Mitt Romney
Glenn Close
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Sir Elton John

April

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John Ratzenberger
Florian Schneider
Tom Clancy
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
James Woods
Iggy Pop
Johan Cruyff

May

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June

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Sir Jonathan Pryce
Ronnie Wood
Viktor Klima
David Blunkett
Robert Englund
Shirin Ebadi
Jerry Rawlings
Mick Fleetwood
Jimmie Walker

July

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Larry David
O. J. Simpson
Queen Camilla
Sir Brian May
Albert Brooks
Su Tseng-chang
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Arnold Schwarzenegger

August

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Anwar Ibrahim
Cindy Williams
Barbara Bach
Temple Grandin
Somchai Wongsawat

September

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Kjell Magne Bondevik
Amos Biwott
Sir Sam Neill
Stephen King
Meat Loaf
Marc Bolan

October

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Brian Johnson
Kevin Kline
Richard Dreyfuss
Herman Van Rompuy

November

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Joe Mantegna
Dwight Schultz

December

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Gregg Allman
Vincent Matthews
Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Ted Danson
Jeff Lynne

Date unknown

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Deaths

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Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn
Blessed Maria Giovanna Fasce
Al Capone
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten

February

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Petar Zivkovic
Luigi Russolo
Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt

March

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Carrie Chapman Catt

April

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King George II of Greece
Henry Ford
King Christian X of Denmark
Gheorghe Ciuhandu

May

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Miguel Abadía Méndez
George William Forbes

June

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Władysław Raczkiewicz
Richard Bedford Bennett

July

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Raoul Wallenberg
Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
Joseph Cook

August

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Blessed Claudio Granzotto
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke

September

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October

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Max Planck

November

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Constantin Sănătescu
Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Ernst Lubitsch

December

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Stanley Baldwin
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Date unknown

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Nobel Prizes

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Nobel medal awarded to Edward Victor Appleton

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