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1947 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.
August 29 – US announces the discovery of plutonium fission, suitable for nuclear power generation. September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, causes widespread damage and kills 51 people.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1947. Topics specifically related to the year AD 1947. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946.
The year 1947 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.
This category has the following 34 subcategories, out of 34 total. 1947 by city (3 C) 1947 by continent (23 C) 1947 by country (185 C, 35 P)
1 January – The government nationalises the coal industry in the UK [1] and Cable & Wireless. [2] 2 January – British coins cease to include any silver content. [1] 8 January – A Cabinet sub-committee approves High Explosive Research, a civil project to develop an independent British atomic bomb.
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE; Russian: Больша́я сове́тская энциклопе́дия, БСЭ, romanized: Boljšaja sovjetskaja enciklopjedija, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.
