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4 days ago · Partition of India, division of British India into the independent countries of India and Pakistan according to the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament on July 18, 1947. Set to take effect on August 15, the rapid partition led to a population transfer of unprecedented.
1 day ago · Des Moines, IA – On this day 77 years ago, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin experienced an extraordinary weather event as a late spring snowstorm blanketed the region. On May 28, 1947, Des Moines recorded only a trace of snow, but northern parts of Iowa saw several inches, with Le Mars receiving a remarkable 10 inches. According to the US ...
2 days ago · West Bank, area of the former British-mandated (1920–47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from 1967 by Israel. The territory, excluding East Jerusalem, is also known within Israel by its biblical names, Judaea and Samaria.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon was intended to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
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5 days ago · The Peel Commission of 1937 was the first to propose a two-state solution to the conflict, whereby Palestine would be divided into two states: one Arab state and one Jewish state. The Jewish state would include the coastal plain , Jezreel Valley , Beit She'an and the Galilee , while the Arab state would include Transjordan , Judea and Samaria ...
2 days ago · The containment policy was developed by State Department official George Kennan in 1947. Kennan characterized the Soviet Union as an aggressive, anti-Western power that necessitated containment, a characterization which would shape US foreign policy for decades to come.
5 days ago · 27 January - 10 February 1947 New York. At the first meeting of the first session of the Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt (United States) was unanimously elected Chairman, with P.C. Chang (China) elected as Vice-Chairman, Charles Malik (Lebanon) was chosen to be Rapporteur (E/CN.4/SR.1). John Humphrey, Director of the Division of ...
