8 events found for 1947
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the So
Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Si
A new Constitution of Japan went into effect, providing for a parliamentary system of government, guaranteeing certain f
After renegotiating a contract with the makers of her signature perfume Chanel No
The first session of the National Diet opened in Tokyo, Japan
At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to war-torn
A Mafia hitman murdered gangster Bugsy Siegel, one of the driving forces in the development of the Las Vegas Strip, in B
Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the…