In history, year 1947 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1947.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1947:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|---|
| 12 february | French designer Christian Dior unveiled a 'New Look' that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II. |
| 12 february | The Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one of the largest iron meteorite impacts ever observed, fell in the Sikhote-Alin Range in Siberia. |
| 23 february | The International Organization for Standardization, responsible for worldwide industrial and commercial standards, was founded. |
| 01 march | The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations. |
| 06 april | The first Tony Award, recognizing achievements in live American Theatre, were handed out at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. |
| 07 april | The Arab Ba'ath Party was founded in Damascus. |
| 15 april | Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball. |
| 16 april | American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruchfirst described the post–World War II tensions between the SovietUnion and the United States as a 'cold war'. |
| 18 april | In one of the largest non-nuclear single explosive detonationsin history, the Royal Navy set off 4,000 tonnes of surplus ammunition inan unsuccessful attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland, Germany. |
| 19 april | 522 people were killed as a French ship exploded near the Texas City harbor. |
| 01 may | Italian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33. |
| 23 may | The UK cabinet agreed to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary of India. |
| 29 may | Establishment of Indian Standard Institution. In the twilight years of British rule in India, when the country was faced with the gigantic task of building up the industrial infrastructure, it was the Institution of Engineers (India), which prepared the first draft of the Constitution of an Institution which could take up the task of formulation of National Standards. |
| 05 june | At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary ofState George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn Europe,outlining a recovery program that became known as the Marshall Plan. |
| 20 june | A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills,California. |
| 24 june | Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. Kenneth A. Arnold was an American aviator and businessman. He is best known for making what is generally considered the first widely reported unidentified flying object sighting in the United States, after claiming to have seen nine unusual objects flying in a chain near Mount Rainier, Washington. |
| 25 june | The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) was published. The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. |
| 06 july | The production of AK-47 rifle started in Soviet Union. AK stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova. It was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is a semi automatic or automatic light weight machine gun. This gun is used by armed forces of maximum countries of the world. |
| 08 july | After various news agencies reported the capture of a 'flyingdisc' by U.S. Army Air Force personnel in Roswell, New Mexico, themilitary stated that what was actually recovered was debris from anexperimental high-altitude surveillance weather balloon. |
| 19 july | Burmese nationalist Aung San and six members of his newlyformed cabinet were assassinated during a cabinet meeting. |
| 29 july | ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. |
| 02 august | A British South American Airways airliner crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes, the wreckage from which was not found until 1998. |
| 14 august | The colony of Pakistan and Bangladesh gain formal independence from Great Britain, as the British withdrew from the Indian Empire. |
| 15 august | India gains independence from Great Britain after a rule that lasted for more than 200 years. |
| 17 august | A commission led by Cyril Radcliffe established the RadcliffeLine, the border between India and Pakistan after the Partition ofIndia. |
| 18 september | The National Security Act came into effect, establishing theUnited States Air Force as a separate branch of the U.S. military, aswell as the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| 17 october | Burma and Britain signed an agreement today, which grants Burma full independence outside of Britain if it chooses, thus ending the 300 years of British Rule over the country. |
| 19 october | As per the Federal Works administrator minimum wage of 40 cents per hour is outdated and should be reformed to 75 cents per hour. |
| 25 november | McCarthyism-Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklistten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for contempt of Congressfor refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American ActivitiesCommittee. |
| 29 november | The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1947:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|---|
| 01 January | Jon Corzine / Politician / United States of America |
| 02 April | Paquita la del Barrio / Writer / Mexico |
| 02 December | Tommy Jenkins / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 02 February | Farrah Fawcett / Actress / United States of America |
| 02 July | Larry David / Actor / United States of America |
| 05 April | Virendra Sharma / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 06 May | Alan Dale / Actor / New Zealand |
| 08 March | Vladimír Mišík / Singer / Czech Republic |
| 08 January | Antti Kalliomäki / Politician / Finland |
| 08 August | Ken Dryden / Lawyer / Canada |
| 10 August | Ian Anderson / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 12 November | Buck Dharma / Writer / United States of America |
| 12 March | Peter Harry Carstensen / Politician / Germany |
| 15 February | Marisa Berenson / Actress / United States of America |
| 15 April | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason / Writer / United States of America |
| 17 October | Gene Green / Politician / United States of America |
| 24 April | João Braz de Aviz / Cardinal / Brazil |
| 25 November | Jonathan Kaplan / Producer / United States of America |
| 27 December | Mickey Redmond / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 29 December | David Tanner / Rower / United Kingdom |
Famous Indian Personalities Birthdays in the year 1947:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|---|
| 11 June | Lalu Prasad Yadav / Politician / India |
| 29 September | S. H. Kapadia / Lawyer / India |
| 01 September | P. A. Sangma / Politician / India |
| 19 June | Salman Rushdie / Novelist / India |
| 28 February | Digvijay Singh / Politician / India |
| 29 September | S. H. Kapadia / Lawyer / India |
| 01 September | P.A. Sangma / Politician / India |
| 03 June | Mala Sen / Writer / India |
| 15 September | Bhupinder Singh Hooda / Politician / India |
| 04 June | Ashok Sarraf / Actor / India |
| 16 March | Pratima Puri / Journalist / India |
| 05 July | Lalji Singh / Scientist / India |
| 14 November | Bharathan / Writer / India |
| 08 August | Paintal / Actor / India |
| 18 September | Ravi S. Naik / Politician / India |
| 28 February | Vijay Bahuguna / Politician / India |
| 01 September | Purno Agitok Sangma / Politician / India |
| 29 January | Ashok Gupta / Writer / India |
| 22 April | Virendra Bhatia / Politician / India |
| 01 September | P. A. Sangma / Politician / India |
