1947 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1944 1945 1946 – 1947 – 1948 1949 1950 |
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
Events
- April 15 – Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
- June 26 - Sindh province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- June 29 - Balochistan (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 2 - North-West Frontier Province province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 19 - Punjab (Pakistan) province joins Pakistan, after the majority voted in favour.
- July 22 – The former East Bengal province joins Pakistan on the basis of a Muslim-majority region the people had voted in to join the cause for Pakistan, according to the Partition Plan, based on the Two-nation theory. It later becomes the present day People's Republic of Bangladesh, since 1971.
- August 14 – Pakistan is granted freedom from Britain, end of the British Raj.
- August 15 – India gains independence from Britain.
Births
- January 1 - Jon Corzine, American politician
- January 8 – David Bowie, British singer
- January 15 - Deem Bristow, American actor
- March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American actress and singer
- March 24 - Alan Sugar, British businessman
- March 24 - Christine Gregoire, American politician
- March 25 – Elton John, British singer
- April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- April 18 - James Woods, American actor
- May 8 - John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, British politician
- July 9 - O. J. Simpson, American football player
- July 17 - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and politician, former Governor of California
- July 31 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
- August 16 – Carol Moseley Braun, American jurist
- September 30 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
- October 4 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- October 26 – Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and United States Secretary of State
- November 10 - Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982)
- November 10 - Greg Lake, American musician
- December 8 – Gregg Allman, American rock musician
Deaths
- Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b. 1859)
- January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
- March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
- March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born writer (b. 1863)
- April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
- May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
- May 16 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
- May 17 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- July 30 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
- December 1 – Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
- December 1 – G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
- December 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
- December 7 – Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
Movies released
- Hue and Cry
New books
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- Bright November – Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
- Country Place – Ann Lane Petty
- Creatures of Circumstance – W. Somerset Maugham
- The Cold War – Walter Lippmann
- Dark Carnival – Ray Bradbury's first book
- Dialectic of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
- Eyes of a Blue Dog – Gabriel García Márquez
- Froth on the Daydream – Boris Vian
- God Is For White Folks – Thomas Will
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Northern? – Arthur Ransome
- A High Wind Rising – Elsie Singmaster
- I, the Jury – Mickey Spillane
- Les Jeux Inconnus – François Boyer
- Knock On Any Door – Willard Motley
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool – George Orwell
- Masquerade, a Historical Novel – Oscar Micheaux
- Miss Hickory – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- The Moneyman – Thomas B. Costain
- Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation – Samuel Putnam
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
- The Pearl – John Steinbeck
- The Adventures of Tintin
- The Plague (La Peste) – Albert Camus
- Prince of Foxes – Samuel Shellabarger
- Rocket Ship Galileo – Robert A. Heinlein
- Saggy Baggy Elephant – Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
- Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
- Tales of the South Pacific – James A. Michener
- Tarzan and the Foreign Legion – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tea with Mrs Goodman – Philip Toynbee
- Theatre – W. Somerset Maugham
- Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
- Who Has Seen the Wind? – W.O. Mitchell
Nobel prizes
Images for kids
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Barbara Bach
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Somchai Wongsawat
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Porfirio Lobo
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Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn
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Blessed Maria Giovanna Fasce
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Petar Zivkovic
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Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt
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King George II of Greece
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Gheorghe Ciuhandu
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Miguel Abadía Méndez
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George William Forbes
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Władysław Raczkiewicz
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Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
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Blessed Claudio Granzotto
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Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
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Constantin Sănătescu
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Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky
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Nobel medal awarded to Edward Victor Appleton
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