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1947 World Series. The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Yankees won the Series in seven games for their 11th World Series championship in team history. Yankees manager Bucky Harris won the Series for the first time since managing the Washington Senators to their only title in 1924, a gap of 23 ...
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The start of theCold War which endured over four decades, from circa 1947 until the decline and eventual collapse of East European and Soviet state communism in the late 1980's. More Information and Timeline For The Start Of The Cold War 1. 1945 to 1947 Following the End of World War The Soviet Union begins creating the Eastern Bloc which mostly in...
The United Nations votes in favor of the creation of an Independent Jewish State of Israel. More Information and Timeline For Independent Jewish State of Israel 1. 1923British rule of Palestine begins 2. 1923 Jews and Arabs lived together in Palestine 3. 1929 Following the anti-Semitism in Poland and Hungary ( 1923 - 1929 )more than 75,000 addition...
India and Pakistan gain independence from Great Britain. More Information and Timeline for India and Pakistan Independence. India and Pakistan become independent nations on August 15 after the Indian Independence Bill goes into effect. The countries had previously been under British rule for over two hundred years. The independence movement in Indi...
President Harry S. Truman outlines the Truman Doctrine to the United States Congress during March. Truman spoke on the importance of helping secure the democracies of foreign nations that were facing foreign and domestic authoritarian threats. His speech marked the beginning of the Cold War as it was directed towards stopping the spread of communis...
Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. More Information and Timeline for Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson breaks the Major League Baseball color barrier when he is chosen to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 9th . Robinson was a pioneering figure in racial...
1. The United Kingdom nationalizes its coal mines beginning in January . 2. The moves to nationalize the coal industry were made in July of the previous year with the passage of the “Coal Industry Nationalisation Act of 1946” which created the National Coal Board (NCB) to run the mines. 3. The NCB took over more than 1,500 mines that had been owned...
1. The Polaroid Land Camera is first demonstrated during February . 2. The camera’s inventor, Edwin Land, took the first instant photo with his innovative camera in New York at a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 3. The camera could take and develop a physical black and white photo in just 60 seconds and during the following year stores be...
Chuck Yeager, a United States Air Force Captain and World War II veteran, becomes the first person to break the sound barrier on October 14 News Events. Yeager made history while test flying the Bell X- 1 experimental rocket plane over Rogers Dry lake in California. He flew the plane just over Mach 1 at an altitude of over 40,000 feet. Yeager conti...
Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft theKon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands More Information and Timeline For Kon-Tiki Expedition 1. Thor Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times 2. The Kon-Tiki expedition was designed to prove that using materials and knowledge o...
A research team at Bell Laboratories invents the transistor More Information and Timeline for the Transistor 1. A research team including William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain is assembled in 1945 by Bell Laboratories to create a solid-state semi-conductor switch to replace vacuum tubes in electronics.. 2. John Bardeen and Walter Bratt...
The 1947 World Series also accounted for three other Series "firsts" as it was the first to ever be televised, the first with a black player on a roster, and the first to produce total receipts over the $2,000,000 plateau.
During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship. In 1997, Major League Baseball ...
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Sep 27, 2022 · Game 4 of the 1947 World Series was, at the time, a true sensation. After eight innings, Yankee starter Bill Bevens was working on a no-hitter, though the Yanks led just 2-1 because the Dodgers scored once in the fifth on two walks and an RBI fielder's choice. In the bottom of the ninth, Bevens retired Bruce Edwards on a long fly, walked Carl ...
