1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1947 - Events. January 1 - British mines nationalized January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is ...

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1947 - January. January 1 - Afeni Shakur January 2 - Ai January 2 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist January 3 - Patricia Anthony January 6 - Sandy Denny, British vocalist (d. 1978) January 7 - Shobha De, Indian writer January 8 - David Bowie, English musician January 8 - Jenny Boyd January 8 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor January 16 - Laura Schlessinger, American psychologist and radio talk show host January 1 ...

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See also: 1946 in sports, other events of 1947, 1948 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1947 in sports - Auto racing. Wally Parks founds the Southern California Timing Association, to better organize drag racing. 1947 in sports - Baseball. Hall of Fame election: The writers' election is successful for the first time since 1942, with voters choosing Carl Hubbell, Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane and Lefty Grove. Selections of 19th century player ...

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See also: 1946 in music, other events of 1947, 1948 in music and the list of 'years in music'. 1947 in music - Events. Patti Page signs with Mercury Frankie Laine earns his first, of 21, gold records Kay Starr signs with Capitol George Jones begins performing Jimmy Rogers begins recording the Weavers begin performing Enrico De Angelis leaves Quartetto Cetra. Lucia Mannucci replaces him. Ernesto Bonino embarks on his Latin American tourIncluding:

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Body and Soul is a film made in 1947 film noir film which tells the story of a boxer who becomes involved with a corrupt promoter. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad. The movie, written by Abraham Polonsky and directed by Robert Rossen, is a cautionary tale where the pursuit of money becomes the focus that derails a common man in his quest for success. Body and Soul 1947 film - Plot. Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, become ...

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On 29 November 1947 the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine, was approved by the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN World Headquarters in New York. The plan partitioned the territory into Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area (encompassing Bethlehem) coming under international control. The failure of this plan led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 1947 UN Partition Plan - Creation of the plan. The U ...

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Bundelkhand is a geographic region of central India. The region is divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion lying in Madhya Pradesh. Bundelkhand - Geography. Bundelkhand lies between the Indo-Gangetic Plain to the north and the Vindhya Range to the south. It is a gently-sloping upland, distinguished by barren hilly terrain with sparse vegetation, although the it was historically forested. The plains of Bundelkhand are intersected by three mountain ranges, the V ...

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1947 in baseball - January-March. 1947 in baseball - April-June. April 27 - before a packed house at New York's Yankee Stadium, it was Babe Ruth Day and Ruth himself made an appearance; despite having throat cancer, he spoke to the crowd "the only real game, I think, in the world is baseball". 1947 in baseball - July-September. ...

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1947 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3) All-Star Game, July 8 at Wrigley Field: American League, 2-1 1947 in baseball - Other champions. First College World Series: California First Little League World Series: Maynard, Williamsport, Pennsylvania Negro League World Series: New Yo ...

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The 1947 competition consisted of a preliminary round, with two groups of four teams and two groups of three teams each. Each team played the other teams in its group once. The top two teams in each of the groups advanced into four-team semifinal groups 1 and 2 and were guaranteed a top-eight finish, with the remaining teams playing in three-team groups 3 and 4 for places 9-14. Each team again played each other team in its group once. The bottom team in each of the three-team groups played its counterpart for 13th and 14th places. Sim ...

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March March 14 - Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular services. May May 28 - BSAA trials non-stop flights from London to Bermuda using aerial refueling over the Azores June June 17 - Pan Am begins a New York to San Francisco service flying west-to-east around almost the entire globe. June 19 - Col Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623.62 mph (1,003 km/h) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. (This is still marginally slower than unofficial German speed records in rocket-po ...

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1947 in rail transport - January events. January 19 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates the Cincinnatian passenger train between Baltimore, Maryland, and Cincinnati, Ohio. 1947 in rail transport - February events. February 28 - The Illinois Central Railroad withdraws its specialized Green Diamond passenger trainset from Chicago-St. Louis service. 1947 in rail transport - March events. March 4 - Ms. Friedel Klussman launches a drive to pr ...

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1947 in South Africa - March. 9 March - The Three Doctors’ Pact is signed by Dr AB Xuma (African National Congress), Dr Gagathura Mohambry Naicker (Natal Indian Congress) and Dr Yusuf Dadoo (Transvaal Indian Congress) 1947 in South Africa - May. 4 May - The Natal Indian Organisation is formed 10 May - The South Africa national football team beats the Australia national football team 2-1 at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, Australia, in the South African ...

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Indian Independence Act 1947 - India. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy was retained as the Governor-General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru became the Prime Minister of India, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became the Deputy Prime Minister of India. Over 560 princely states acceded to India, with the states of Junagadh and Hyderabad joining after political and military conflict. Indian Independence Act 1947 - Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the Governor-General of Pakistan, a ...

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This war has been split into ten stages by time. The individual stages are detailed below. Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 - Initial Invasion 22 Oct 1947 – 26 Oct 1947 Op Gulmarg. A large invasion of the Kashmir valley was mounted by the irregular forces, aimed at Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The state forces were defeated and the way to the capital, (Srinagar), was open. There was also a mutiny by state forces in favour of the AZK in Domel. In desperation, Hari Singh, the ruler of Kashm ...

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June June 22 - Martin XB-48 July July 2 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-310, prototype of the MiG-15 July 8 - Boeing 377 July 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 July 21 - Aero 45 July 24 - Ilyushin Il-22 July 27 - Tupolev Tu-12, first Soviet jet bomber July 27 - Bristol Sycamore, first British helicopter October October 1 - North American XP-86 November November 2 - Hughes H-4 "Spruce Goose" December< ...

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The film received positive reviews when first released. Some modern film reviews finds the film's message heavy handed today but most reviewers continue to praise Garfield's performace. [1] TV Guide's review notes "The fight sequences, in particular, brought a kind of realism to the genre that had never before existed (James Wong Howe wore skates and rolled around the ring shooting the fight scenes with ...

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A group of Westgate Prison inmates, lead by Lancaster, plan on escaping. While the plan is taking shape, the cons in cell R17 each tell a story, via flashback, about how being in love somehow got them all in trouble with the law. Standing in the way of the prison break is a sadistic prison guard (a surprisingly vicious Cronyn). When the break goes bad the normally subdued prison yard turns into a violent and bloody riot. Director Dassin later called the movie "stupid" bec ...

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