• 1947 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in January 1947: Britain and the...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 January 1947, the first since World War II. According to the official results, the Democratic Bloc (Blok...
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  • 1947 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1947. 1947 (MCMXLVII)...
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  • Anna Calder-Marshall (category 1947 births)
    Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947) is an English stage, film and television actress. Calder-Marshall was born in Kensington, London, and is the...
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  • Public Health was renamed as the Department of Local Government on 22 January 1947. On 9 June, the Government appointed Parliamentary Secretaries on the...
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  • Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. Based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel...
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    Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line...
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    the name of the company was changed to Avions Marcel Dassault on 20 January 1947. In 1971 Dassault acquired Breguet, forming Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet...
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  • December 1946 accepted on 22 January 1947 and adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, coming into force on 26 January 1950, celebrated as the...
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    Joanna David (category 1947 births)
    Joanna David (born Joanna Elizabeth Hacking; 17 January 1947) is an English actress, best known for her television work. David was born in Lancaster, England...
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    Ramesh Sippy (category 1947 births)
    Ramesh Sippy (born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director, actor and producer in Hindi cinema. He is particularly known for being director in Sholay...
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    [vɛ̃sɑ̃ oʁjɔl]; 27 August 1884 – 1 January 1966) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1947 to 1954. Auriol was born in Revel...
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    The 1947 Rawalpindi massacres (also 1947 Rawalpindi riots) refer to widespread violence, massacres, and rapes of Hindus and Sikhs by Muslim mobs in the...
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  • 1947 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1947: Bulgarian leader...
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    thawed and flooding was severe in most low-lying areas. Beginning on 23 January 1947, the UK experienced several cold spells that brought large drifts of...
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    Zadran, Safi and Mangal tribesmen which lasted from February 1944 to January 1947. The causes of the revolts lay in the worsening conditions of farmers...
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    Independence-class aircraft carrier (category Articles needing additional references from January 2013)
    to reserve in January, 1947. Stricken and scrapped starting November 1959. Monterey (CV/CVL-26) – Decommissioned to reserve February 1947. Recommissioned...
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  • Andrew Cockburn (category 1947 births)
    born 7 January 1947) is a British journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine. Born in the London suburb of Willesden in 1947, Cockburn...
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    The Cold War from 1947 to 1948 is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council...
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    Paris Peace Treaties (French: Traités de Paris) were signed on 10 February 1947 following the end of World War II in 1945. The Paris Peace Conference lasted...
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  • Peter Burroughs (category 1947 births)
    Peter Burroughs (born 27 January 1947) is a British television and film actor and the director of Willow Management. He is the father-in-law of actor and...
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    Rick Stein (category 1947 births)
    Christopher Richard Stein, CBE (born 4 January 1947) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer and television presenter. Along with business partner...
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  • of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Avon Publications' anthology Eerie #1 (January 1947), the first horror comic with original content. The first horror-comics...
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  • January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known...
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    in 1919 and served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947. On 10 July 1940, he voted against the granting of the full powers to Marshal...
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    Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 (category Articles needing additional references from January 2022)
    sub-classes of British subject status. The Act came into force on 1 January 1947 and was in force for thirty years, until replaced on 15 February 1977...
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    1945 – 18 January 1946), Frederick C. Sherman (18 January 1946 – 3 September 1946), and Alfred E. Montgomery (5 September 1946 – 1 January 1947). The Fifth...
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    location, Bacik formally applied for a lease on the Ballytruckle lands in January 1947, and it was granted for 75 years. Finance was secured from various sources...
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  • Earth (Hindi: पृथ्वी; released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1999 Indo-Canadian period romance drama film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi...
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  • cinema distributors on 25 November 1947, the film held its World Premiere at the ABC Cinema in Brighton on 8 January 1948, followed by a Gala Premiere...
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