The Year 1947
History and Politics
British coal industry nationalized.
General George Marshall appointed US Secretary of State; calls for European Recovery Program.
Vincent Auriol elected President of France.
US withdraws as mediator in China.
British proposal to divide Palestine rejected by Arabs and Jews;
question referred to UN which announces paln for partition.
Peace treaties signed in Paris.
Ex-president of Tsio of Solvakia executed.
Burma proclaimed independent republic.
India is proclaimed independent and partitioned into India and Pakistan.
Princess Elizabeth, heir to the English throne, marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
King Michael of Rumania abdicates.
US Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act restricting rights of labor unions.
Science, Technology, Growth
British establish their first atomic pile at Harwell.
Advisory Committee on Scientific Policy set up in Britian.
P.M.S. Blackett advances the theory that "all massive rotating bodies are magnetic".
US airplane first flies at supersonic speeds.
Thor Heyedahl sails on a raft from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove prehistoric immigration.
Bell Laboratories scientists invent the transistor.
Daily Life
American aviator Odom flies around the world in 73 hours 5 minutes.
John Cobb (Brit.) establishes a world ground speed record of 394.196 mph.
Henry Ford, leaving a fortune of $625 million dies.
"Flying Saucers" reported in US.
From the Nippur excavations (1888-1900), Francis Steele reconstructs the laws of Hammurabi (18ty century BC).
Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black to sign a contract with a major baseball club.
More than 1 million war veterans enroll in colleges under the "GI Bill of Rights".
Al Capone, US gangster dies.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by J A Kramer, women's won by A Louise Brough.
US wins Davis Cup tennis matches, defeating Australia.
US Golf Assc won by R H Riegel; Open by Lew Worsham.
Illinois wins Rose Bowl, 45-14, over UCLA.
New York (AL) wins World Series, 4-3, over Brooklyn (NL).
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