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  1. Samsung

    Moving To Seoul

    1947Seoul, South Korea

    The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, he was forced to leave Seoul.

  2. Shimon Peres

    Predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces

    1947Israel

    In 1947, Peres joined the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces.

  3. Margaret Thatcher

    Graduation

    1947Oxford, England

    Roberts graduated From Oxford in 1947 with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin. Her dissertation was on the structure of the antibiotic gramicidin.

  4. Neil Armstrong

    Education

    1947Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

    In 1947, at age 17, Armstrong began studying aeronautical engineering at Purdue University.

  5. Fidel Castro

    The Party of the Cuban People

    1947Havana, Cuba

    In 1947, Castro joined the Party of the Cuban People (Partido Ortodoxo).

  6. Adidas

    The Brothers Split up

    1947Germany

    The brothers split up in 1947 after relations between them had broken down.

  7. Alan Turing

    Turing Returned to Cambridge for a Sabbatical year

    1947Cambridge, England

    In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime.

  8. Returning to Cambridge

    1947Cambridgeshire, England

    In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime. While he was at Cambridge, the Pilot ACE was being built in his absence. It executed its first program on 10 May 1950, and a number of later computers around the world owe much to it, including the English Electric DEUCE and the American Bendix G-15. The full version of Turing's ACE was not built until after his death.

  9. Incandescent light bulb

    Coating the inside of lamps with silica

    1947Florida, U.S.

    In 1947, Marvin Pipkin patented a process for coating the inside of lamps with silica.

  10. Warren Buffett

    Woodrow Wilson High

    1947Chesapeake Street, Northwest Washington D.C., U.S.

    Buffett graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947.

  11. World Bank

    John J. McCloy served as the president

    1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    After WWII, John J. McCloy served as the president of the World Bank.

  12. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Tour of South Africa

    Saturday Feb 1, 1947South Africa

    On 1 February 1947, Margaret, Elizabeth, and their parents embarked on a state tour of Southern Africa. The three-month-long visit was Margaret's first visit abroad, and she later claimed that she remembered "every minute of it". Margaret's chaperone was Peter Townsend, the King's equerry and very firm toward Margaret, who he apparently considered an indulged child.

  13. Lucky Luciano

    The US started putting pressure

    Friday Feb 21, 1947Cuba

    Soon after the Conference began, the US government learned that Luciano was in Cuba. Luciano had been publicly fraternizing with Sinatra as well as visiting numerous nightclubs, so his presence was no secret in Havana. The US started putting pressure on the Cuban government to expel him. On February 21, 1947, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger notified the Cubans that the US would block all shipment of narcotic prescription drugs while Luciano was there.

  14. Chinese Civil War

    Symbolic victory

    Mar, 1947Yanan, China

    In March 1947 the KMT achieved a symbolic victory by seizing the CPC capital of Yan'an.

  15. International Monetary Fund

    IMF began its financial operations

    Saturday Mar 1, 1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    On 1 March 1947, the IMF began its financial operations.

  16. NATO Establishment

    The Treaty of Dunkirk

    Tuesday Mar 4, 1947Dunkirk, France

    On 4 March 1947 the Treaty of Dunkirk was signed by France and the United Kingdom as a Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance in the event of a possible attack by Germany or the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.

  17. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip had abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles

    Mar, 1947United Kingdom

    By March 1947, Philip had abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles had adopted the surname Mountbatten from his mother's family, and had become a naturalized British subject.

  18. First Indochina War

    The First occurrence was probably at The National Assembly

    Friday Mar 21, 1947France

    The first occurrence was probably at the National Assembly on March 21, 1947, when the communist deputes refused to back the military credits for Indochina.

  19. Flag of Bhutan

    Mayeum Choying Wangmo

    Mar, 1947Bhutan

    Ashi Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji was the mother of Queen Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choden of Bhutan, she Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji designed the flag at her daughter's request.

  20. Plague

    French novelist Albert Camus publishes The Plague

    1947France

    French novelist Albert Camus publishes The Plague, a novel about a fictional outbreak of plague in Oran, Algeria. The book helps to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

  21. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle made a renewed attempt to transform the politics in France

    Wednesday Apr 9, 1947France

    In April 1947, de Gaulle made a renewed attempt to transform the political scene by creating a Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally of the French People, or RPF), which he hoped would be able to move above the familiar party squabbles of the parliamentary system.

  22. Lucky Luciano

    To Genoa

    Friday Apr 11, 1947Genoa, Italy

    After Luciano's secret trip to Cuba, he spent the rest of his life in Italy under tight police surveillance. When he arrived in Genoa on April 11, 1947, Italian police arrested him and sent him to a jail in Palermo.

  23. Chinese Civil War

    Shanghai Massacre

    Saturday Apr 12, 1947Shanghai, China

    On April 12, in Shanghai, many Communist members in the KMT were purged through hundreds of arrests and executions on the orders of General Bai Chongxi. The CPC referred to this as the April 12 Incident or Shanghai Massacre. This incident widened the rift between Chiang and Wang Jingwei, another warlord who controlled the city of Wuhan.

  24. Johan Cruyff

    Birth

    Friday Apr 25, 1947Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruijff was born on 25 April 1947 in Amsterdam, on a street five minutes away from Ajax's stadium, his first football club.

  25. International Monetary Fund

    The first borrower

    Thursday May 8, 1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    On 8 May, France became the first country to borrow from it.

  26. World Bank

    First country to receive a World Bank loan

    Friday May 9, 1947France

    The first country to receive a World Bank loan was France. The Bank's president at the time, John McCloy, chose France over two other applicants, Poland and Chile. The loan was for US$250 million, half the amount requested, and it came with strict conditions. France had to agree to produce a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments.

  27. Lucky Luciano

    Released him

    Sunday May 11, 1947Palermo, Italy

    On May 11, a regional commission in Palermo warned Luciano to stay out of trouble and released him.

  28. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Edinburgh Castle

    1947Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    Among Margaret's first official engagements was launching the ocean liner, Edinburgh Castle, in Belfast in 1947.

  29. Chinese Civil War

    The Communists counterattacked

    Monday Jun 30, 1947China

    The Communists counterattacked soon afterwards; on 30 June 1947 CPC troops crossed the Yellow River and moved to the Dabie Mountains area, restored and developed the Central Plain. At the same time, Communist forces also began to counterattack in Northeastern China, North China and East China.

  30. Laser

    Willis E. Lamb and R.C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra

    1947California, U.S.

    In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R.C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission.

  31. Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth engagement to Prince Philip

    Wednesday Jul 9, 1947London, United Kingdom

    The royal couple went on to officially confirm their engagement on July 9th, 1947, and hosted a photocall at Buckingham Palace, which allowed the future monarch to show off her new diamond ring.

  32. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    The Engagement

    Thursday Jul 10, 1947Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom

    The engagement was announced to the public on 10 July 1947.

  33. Francisco Franco

    Franco proclaimed Spain a monarchy

    Saturday Jul 26, 1947Spain

    On 26 July 1947 Franco proclaimed Spain a monarchy, but did not designate a monarch.

  34. Louis Armstrong

    Armstrong big band dissolved

    Wednesday Aug 13, 1947New York, U.S.

    Following a highly successful small-group jazz concert at New York Town Hall on May 17, 1947, featuring Armstrong with trombonist/singer Jack Teagarden, Armstrong's manager, Joe Glaser dissolved the Armstrong big band on August 13, 1947, and established a six-piece traditional jazz group featuring Armstrong with (initially) Teagarden, Earl Hines and other top swing and Dixieland musicians, most of whom were previously leaders of big bands. The new group was announced at the opening of Billy Berg's Supper Club.

  35. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Disapproved Independence

    Friday Aug 15, 1947India

    In August 1947 the British partitioned the land with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms that Gandhi disapproved.

  36. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Margaret fell in love

    1947South Africa

    When Townsend and Margaret's relationship began is unclear. The princess said that she fell in love with the equerry during the 1947 South Africa tour, where they often went riding together.

  37. Algerian War

    Granted French citizenship to all Algerian subjects

    Saturday Sep 20, 1947Algeria

    The Law of September 20, 1947, granted French citizenship to all Algerian subjects, who were not required to renounce their personal status.

  38. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Became Anglican

    Oct, 1947United Kingdom

    Though Philip appeared "always to have regarded himself as an Anglican", and he had attended Anglican services with his classmates and relations in England and throughout his Royal Navy days, he had been baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, wanted to "regularise" Philip's position by officially receiving him into the Church of England, which he did in October 1947.

  39. Max Planck

    Death

    Saturday Oct 4, 1947Göttingen, Germany

    After the end of the war Planck, his second wife, and his son by her were brought to a relative in Göttingen, where Planck died on October 4, 1947.

  40. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Townsend requested the bedroom next to Margaret's

    Oct, 1947Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    Margaret biographer Craig Brown stated that, according to a National Trust curator, Townsend requested the bedroom next to hers during a trip to Belfast in October 1947.

  41. River Phoenix

    Phoenix's father

    1947United States

    John Lee Bottom, also known as John Phoenix, was recognized as being the father of popular Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix and late actor and singer River Phoenix.

  42. World Trade Organization

    GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade

    Oct, 1947Geneva, Switzerland

    The GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade from 1946 until the WTO was established on 1 January 1995.

  43. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Titles

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947United Kingdom

    The day before the wedding, King George VI bestowed the style of Royal Highness on Philip and, on the morning of the wedding, 20 November 1947, he was made the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London. Consequently, being already a Knight of the Garter, between 19 and 20 November 1947 he bore the unusual style His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten and is so described in the Letters Patent of 20 November 1947.

  44. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom

    Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to 200 million people around the world. In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for any of the Duke of Edinburgh's German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Philip's three surviving sisters, all of whom had married German princes.

  45. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Elizabeth's wedding

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947London, England, United Kingdom

    Later that year, Margaret was a bridesmaid at Elizabeth's wedding.

  46. Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth and Philip were married

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947London, United Kingdom

    Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.

  47. United Nations

    General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine

    Saturday Nov 29, 1947U.S.

    On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine, approving the creation of the state of Israel. Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict.

  48. Computer

    The Invention of The Bipolar Transistor

    Dec, 1947Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.

    William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs invented the first practical transistor, the point-contact transistor, in 1947.

  49. Warren Buffett

    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

    1947Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

    Buffett entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.

  50. Stan Lee

    Getting married

    Friday Dec 5, 1947New York, U.S,

    Stan married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England, on December 5, 1947.

  51. Marilyn Monroe

    First Appearance on Screen

    Sunday Dec 7, 1947U.S.

    She was given her first film role, bit parts in Dangerous Years (1947).

  52. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    President of the National Playing Fields Association

    1947United Kingdom

    Philip was President of the National Playing Fields Association (now known as Fields in Trust) for 64 years, from 1947 until his grandson Prince William took over the role in 2013.

  53. Jimmy Hoffa

    A Deferment from Military Service in World War Ii

    1947U.S.

    He then rose to lead the combined group of Detroit-area locals shortly afterwards, and advanced to become head of the Michigan Teamsters groups sometime later. During this time, Hoffa obtained a deferment from military service in World War II by successfully making a case for his union leadership skills being of more value to the nation, by keeping freight running smoothly to assist the war effort.

  54. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip returned to the navy at first in a desk job at the Admiralty

    1947Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom

    After his honeymoon at the Mountbatten family home, Broadlands, Philip returned to the navy at first in a desk job at the Admiralty, and later on a staff course at the Naval Staff College, Greenwich.

  55. Queen Elizabeth II

    Princess Elizabeth went to southern Africa with her parents

    1947South Africa

    Princess Elizabeth went in 1947 on her first overseas tour, accompanying her parents through southern Africa.

  56. Samsung

    Moving To Seoul

    1947Seoul, South Korea

    The company prospered and Lee moved its head office to Seoul in 1947. When the Korean War broke out, he was forced to leave Seoul.

  57. Shimon Peres

    Predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces

    1947Israel

    In 1947, Peres joined the Haganah, the predecessor of the Israel Defense Forces.

  58. Margaret Thatcher

    Graduation

    1947Oxford, England

    Roberts graduated From Oxford in 1947 with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin. Her dissertation was on the structure of the antibiotic gramicidin.

  59. Neil Armstrong

    Education

    1947Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

    In 1947, at age 17, Armstrong began studying aeronautical engineering at Purdue University.

  60. Fidel Castro

    The Party of the Cuban People

    1947Havana, Cuba

    In 1947, Castro joined the Party of the Cuban People (Partido Ortodoxo).

  61. Adidas

    The Brothers Split up

    1947Germany

    The brothers split up in 1947 after relations between them had broken down.

  62. Alan Turing

    Turing Returned to Cambridge for a Sabbatical year

    1947Cambridge, England

    In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime.

  63. Returning to Cambridge

    1947Cambridgeshire, England

    In late 1947 he returned to Cambridge for a sabbatical year during which he produced a seminal work on Intelligent Machinery that was not published in his lifetime. While he was at Cambridge, the Pilot ACE was being built in his absence. It executed its first program on 10 May 1950, and a number of later computers around the world owe much to it, including the English Electric DEUCE and the American Bendix G-15. The full version of Turing's ACE was not built until after his death.

  64. Incandescent light bulb

    Coating the inside of lamps with silica

    1947Florida, U.S.

    In 1947, Marvin Pipkin patented a process for coating the inside of lamps with silica.

  65. Warren Buffett

    Woodrow Wilson High

    1947Chesapeake Street, Northwest Washington D.C., U.S.

    Buffett graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947.

  66. World Bank

    John J. McCloy served as the president

    1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    After WWII, John J. McCloy served as the president of the World Bank.

  67. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Tour of South Africa

    Saturday Feb 1, 1947South Africa

    On 1 February 1947, Margaret, Elizabeth, and their parents embarked on a state tour of Southern Africa. The three-month-long visit was Margaret's first visit abroad, and she later claimed that she remembered "every minute of it". Margaret's chaperone was Peter Townsend, the King's equerry and very firm toward Margaret, who he apparently considered an indulged child.

  68. Lucky Luciano

    The US started putting pressure

    Friday Feb 21, 1947Cuba

    Soon after the Conference began, the US government learned that Luciano was in Cuba. Luciano had been publicly fraternizing with Sinatra as well as visiting numerous nightclubs, so his presence was no secret in Havana. The US started putting pressure on the Cuban government to expel him. On February 21, 1947, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger notified the Cubans that the US would block all shipment of narcotic prescription drugs while Luciano was there.

  69. Chinese Civil War

    Symbolic victory

    Mar, 1947Yanan, China

    In March 1947 the KMT achieved a symbolic victory by seizing the CPC capital of Yan'an.

  70. International Monetary Fund

    IMF began its financial operations

    Saturday Mar 1, 1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    On 1 March 1947, the IMF began its financial operations.

  71. NATO Establishment

    The Treaty of Dunkirk

    Tuesday Mar 4, 1947Dunkirk, France

    On 4 March 1947 the Treaty of Dunkirk was signed by France and the United Kingdom as a Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance in the event of a possible attack by Germany or the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.

  72. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip had abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles

    Mar, 1947United Kingdom

    By March 1947, Philip had abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles had adopted the surname Mountbatten from his mother's family, and had become a naturalized British subject.

  73. First Indochina War

    The First occurrence was probably at The National Assembly

    Friday Mar 21, 1947France

    The first occurrence was probably at the National Assembly on March 21, 1947, when the communist deputes refused to back the military credits for Indochina.

  74. Flag of Bhutan

    Mayeum Choying Wangmo

    Mar, 1947Bhutan

    Ashi Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji was the mother of Queen Grandmother Ashi Kesang Choden of Bhutan, she Mayeum Choying Wangmo Dorji designed the flag at her daughter's request.

  75. Plague

    French novelist Albert Camus publishes The Plague

    1947France

    French novelist Albert Camus publishes The Plague, a novel about a fictional outbreak of plague in Oran, Algeria. The book helps to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

  76. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle made a renewed attempt to transform the politics in France

    Wednesday Apr 9, 1947France

    In April 1947, de Gaulle made a renewed attempt to transform the political scene by creating a Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally of the French People, or RPF), which he hoped would be able to move above the familiar party squabbles of the parliamentary system.

  77. Lucky Luciano

    To Genoa

    Friday Apr 11, 1947Genoa, Italy

    After Luciano's secret trip to Cuba, he spent the rest of his life in Italy under tight police surveillance. When he arrived in Genoa on April 11, 1947, Italian police arrested him and sent him to a jail in Palermo.

  78. Chinese Civil War

    Shanghai Massacre

    Saturday Apr 12, 1947Shanghai, China

    On April 12, in Shanghai, many Communist members in the KMT were purged through hundreds of arrests and executions on the orders of General Bai Chongxi. The CPC referred to this as the April 12 Incident or Shanghai Massacre. This incident widened the rift between Chiang and Wang Jingwei, another warlord who controlled the city of Wuhan.

  79. Johan Cruyff

    Birth

    Friday Apr 25, 1947Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruijff was born on 25 April 1947 in Amsterdam, on a street five minutes away from Ajax's stadium, his first football club.

  80. International Monetary Fund

    The first borrower

    Thursday May 8, 1947Washington D.C., U.S.

    On 8 May, France became the first country to borrow from it.

  81. World Bank

    First country to receive a World Bank loan

    Friday May 9, 1947France

    The first country to receive a World Bank loan was France. The Bank's president at the time, John McCloy, chose France over two other applicants, Poland and Chile. The loan was for US$250 million, half the amount requested, and it came with strict conditions. France had to agree to produce a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments.

  82. Lucky Luciano

    Released him

    Sunday May 11, 1947Palermo, Italy

    On May 11, a regional commission in Palermo warned Luciano to stay out of trouble and released him.

  83. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Edinburgh Castle

    1947Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    Among Margaret's first official engagements was launching the ocean liner, Edinburgh Castle, in Belfast in 1947.

  84. Chinese Civil War

    The Communists counterattacked

    Monday Jun 30, 1947China

    The Communists counterattacked soon afterwards; on 30 June 1947 CPC troops crossed the Yellow River and moved to the Dabie Mountains area, restored and developed the Central Plain. At the same time, Communist forces also began to counterattack in Northeastern China, North China and East China.

  85. Laser

    Willis E. Lamb and R.C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra

    1947California, U.S.

    In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R.C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission.

  86. Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth engagement to Prince Philip

    Wednesday Jul 9, 1947London, United Kingdom

    The royal couple went on to officially confirm their engagement on July 9th, 1947, and hosted a photocall at Buckingham Palace, which allowed the future monarch to show off her new diamond ring.

  87. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    The Engagement

    Thursday Jul 10, 1947Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom

    The engagement was announced to the public on 10 July 1947.

  88. Francisco Franco

    Franco proclaimed Spain a monarchy

    Saturday Jul 26, 1947Spain

    On 26 July 1947 Franco proclaimed Spain a monarchy, but did not designate a monarch.

  89. Louis Armstrong

    Armstrong big band dissolved

    Wednesday Aug 13, 1947New York, U.S.

    Following a highly successful small-group jazz concert at New York Town Hall on May 17, 1947, featuring Armstrong with trombonist/singer Jack Teagarden, Armstrong's manager, Joe Glaser dissolved the Armstrong big band on August 13, 1947, and established a six-piece traditional jazz group featuring Armstrong with (initially) Teagarden, Earl Hines and other top swing and Dixieland musicians, most of whom were previously leaders of big bands. The new group was announced at the opening of Billy Berg's Supper Club.

  90. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Disapproved Independence

    Friday Aug 15, 1947India

    In August 1947 the British partitioned the land with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms that Gandhi disapproved.

  91. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Margaret fell in love

    1947South Africa

    When Townsend and Margaret's relationship began is unclear. The princess said that she fell in love with the equerry during the 1947 South Africa tour, where they often went riding together.

  92. Algerian War

    Granted French citizenship to all Algerian subjects

    Saturday Sep 20, 1947Algeria

    The Law of September 20, 1947, granted French citizenship to all Algerian subjects, who were not required to renounce their personal status.

  93. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Became Anglican

    Oct, 1947United Kingdom

    Though Philip appeared "always to have regarded himself as an Anglican", and he had attended Anglican services with his classmates and relations in England and throughout his Royal Navy days, he had been baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, wanted to "regularise" Philip's position by officially receiving him into the Church of England, which he did in October 1947.

  94. Max Planck

    Death

    Saturday Oct 4, 1947Göttingen, Germany

    After the end of the war Planck, his second wife, and his son by her were brought to a relative in Göttingen, where Planck died on October 4, 1947.

  95. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Townsend requested the bedroom next to Margaret's

    Oct, 1947Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    Margaret biographer Craig Brown stated that, according to a National Trust curator, Townsend requested the bedroom next to hers during a trip to Belfast in October 1947.

  96. River Phoenix

    Phoenix's father

    1947United States

    John Lee Bottom, also known as John Phoenix, was recognized as being the father of popular Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix and late actor and singer River Phoenix.

  97. World Trade Organization

    GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade

    Oct, 1947Geneva, Switzerland

    The GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade from 1946 until the WTO was established on 1 January 1995.

  98. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Titles

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947United Kingdom

    The day before the wedding, King George VI bestowed the style of Royal Highness on Philip and, on the morning of the wedding, 20 November 1947, he was made the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London. Consequently, being already a Knight of the Garter, between 19 and 20 November 1947 he bore the unusual style His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten and is so described in the Letters Patent of 20 November 1947.

  99. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom

    Philip and Elizabeth were married in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, recorded and broadcast by BBC radio to 200 million people around the world. In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable for any of the Duke of Edinburgh's German relations to be invited to the wedding, including Philip's three surviving sisters, all of whom had married German princes.

  100. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Elizabeth's wedding

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947London, England, United Kingdom

    Later that year, Margaret was a bridesmaid at Elizabeth's wedding.

  101. Queen Elizabeth II

    Elizabeth and Philip were married

    Thursday Nov 20, 1947London, United Kingdom

    Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.

  102. United Nations

    General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine

    Saturday Nov 29, 1947U.S.

    On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly approved a resolution to partition Palestine, approving the creation of the state of Israel. Two years later, Ralph Bunche, a UN official, negotiated an armistice to the resulting conflict.

  103. Computer

    The Invention of The Bipolar Transistor

    Dec, 1947Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.

    William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs invented the first practical transistor, the point-contact transistor, in 1947.

  104. Warren Buffett

    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

    1947Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

    Buffett entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.

  105. Stan Lee

    Getting married

    Friday Dec 5, 1947New York, U.S,

    Stan married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England, on December 5, 1947.

  106. Marilyn Monroe

    First Appearance on Screen

    Sunday Dec 7, 1947U.S.

    She was given her first film role, bit parts in Dangerous Years (1947).

  107. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    President of the National Playing Fields Association

    1947United Kingdom

    Philip was President of the National Playing Fields Association (now known as Fields in Trust) for 64 years, from 1947 until his grandson Prince William took over the role in 2013.

  108. Jimmy Hoffa

    A Deferment from Military Service in World War Ii

    1947U.S.

    He then rose to lead the combined group of Detroit-area locals shortly afterwards, and advanced to become head of the Michigan Teamsters groups sometime later. During this time, Hoffa obtained a deferment from military service in World War II by successfully making a case for his union leadership skills being of more value to the nation, by keeping freight running smoothly to assist the war effort.

  109. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip returned to the navy at first in a desk job at the Admiralty

    1947Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom

    After his honeymoon at the Mountbatten family home, Broadlands, Philip returned to the navy at first in a desk job at the Admiralty, and later on a staff course at the Naval Staff College, Greenwich.

  110. Queen Elizabeth II

    Princess Elizabeth went to southern Africa with her parents

    1947South Africa

    Princess Elizabeth went in 1947 on her first overseas tour, accompanying her parents through southern Africa.