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Quick Facts from 1947. World Changing Event: The first general-purpose computer, the almost 30-ton ENIAC ), contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors. Influential Songs include Heartaches by Ted Weems, and This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie. The Movies to Watch include Miracle on 34th Street, Gentleman’s ...
MAJOR EVENTS: President Truman formulates "Truman Doctrine" of providing aid to countries whose governments are threatened with overthrow U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall calls for a European recovery effort, popularly called the "Marshall Plan." India and Pakistan proclaimed independent nations Britain nationalizes its coal industry Britain’s Princess Elizabeth marries ...
- The Cold War Beginnings
- Israel -- Independence
- India and Pakistan Independence
- USA -- Truman Doctrine
- Jackie Robinson
- United Kingdom -- Coal Industry Nationalized
- United States -- Polaroid Camera Demonstrated
- USA -- Sound Barrier Broken
- Polynesia --- Kon-Tiki Expedition
- Bell Laboratories Invents The Transistor
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...
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- Grocery Prices in the Year 1947. These 1947 grocery prices have been made available courtesy of the Morris County Public Library in Whippany, New Jersey.
- History Facts and Events From the USA and World. President of the United States: Harry S. Truman. Vice President: Vacant. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)
- Sports Facts and Trivia. Generally suitable for all age groups, sports questions are a welcome addition to any trivia quiz. Recommended. Historical Timeline of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida.
- Miscellaneous Fun Facts, Trivia, and Pop Culture Trends. In 1947, popular baby names were James, Robert, John, William, Linda, Mary, Patricia, and Barbara.
Jul 22, 2015 · Jan 10 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel. Jan 10 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard. Jan 15 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia ") found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
Egypt --- Suez Canal Crisis 1956 - 1957. Wham-O releases the first Frisbee toys for sale. Singapore and the United Kingdom agree to self-rule in Singapore. Asian Flu pandemic claims over 150,000 lives world wide. USSR launches Sputnik 1 on inaugurating the Space Age and the Space Race. The final new episode of the classic television comedy “I ...
July 26 – Cold War: President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. August – Fernwood Park race riot in Chicago.
