Explore 3061 historical events from 1940–1949.
Exodus 1947 was a packet steamship that was built in the United States in 1928 as President Warfield for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. From her completion in 1928 until 1942 …
The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
Lyuh Woon-hyung, also known by his art name Mongyang, was a Korean independence activist and reunification activist.
Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
Pan Am Flight 121 was a scheduled Pan American World Airways flight from Karachi to Istanbul. On the evening of 18 June 1947, the Lockheed L-049 Constellation serving the flight, k…
Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate…
The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U
The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for t…
The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Initially formed as part of the Philippine Army as the Philippine Army A…
The Philippine Air Force is established.
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England.…
The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the…
Gerald Rafferty was a Scottish singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of Stealers Wheel, whose biggest hit was "Stuck in the Middle with You" in 1973. His solo hits in the lat…
Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2011)
George Nigel Hannington Emslie, Lord Emslie is a retired judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. He is the son of former Lord President George Emslie, Baron Emslie, and older brot…
Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, Scottish lawyer and judge
Sir Richard Alan Field is a British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Richard Field, English lawyer and judge
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as…
Sherrie Levine, American photographer
Tsutomu Wakamatsu is a Japanese former baseball player, coach, and manager for the Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball. He batted left-handed, and threw right-handed. …
Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager
The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in the Sylhet district of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in undivided Assam and therefore withi…
Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investig…
Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement…
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Sout…
Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the…
Moses Zeh Blah was a Liberian politician. He served as the 28th vice president of Liberia under President Charles Taylor and became the 23rd president of Liberia on 11 August 2003,…
Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (died 2013)
Jerzy Oskar Stuhr was a Polish film and theatre actor. Considered one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors and an icon of Polish cinema, he also worked as a…
Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
Rita Dionne-Marsolais is a former Quebec politician and economist. She was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Rosemont in the Montreal region and represent…
Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov, is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Sovi…
Viktor Suvorov, Russian intelligence officer, historian, and author
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public …
In Vatican City, Rome, canonization of Catherine Labouré, the saint whose apparitions of the Virgin Mary originated…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American former basketball player. He played professionally for 20 seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Assoc…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
James Howard Woods is an American actor. Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards and a Golden Glo…
James Woods, American actor and producer