40 events found for 1947
Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement…
The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the…
In Vatican City, Rome, canonization of Catherine Labouré, the saint whose apparitions of the Virgin Mary originated…
A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires,…
Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a…
The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India.
India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the…
Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
India gains independence from British rule after nearly 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the…
Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region, in Japan killing around 1,000-2,000 people.
The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.