• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/ BOH-ee), was an English singer, songwriter, musician...
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  • Partition of India in 1947. This will star Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta in lead roles. The film is set to release on 26 January 2025, coinciding with the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played...
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  • February 1902 Pajusi Parish (now Põltsamaa Parish), Kreis Fellin – 9 January 1947 Erlangen, American Zone, Allied-occupied Germany) was an Estonian politician...
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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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    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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    Commission to the Security Council", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (January 1947), p16 J.A.A. Stockwin, Governing Japan 3rd Ed., (Blackwell 1999), p167...
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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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  • Francisco on New Year's Eve 1946, expanding to a wide theatrical release in January 1947. The film received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Leaving...
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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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    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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    Hanwant Singh (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2008)
    Rathore dynasty of Marwar on 9 June 1947 and held the title till his death at a young age in a plane crash on 26 January 1952. In 1943 he married Maharani...
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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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    Rima Horton (category 1947 births)
    Rima Elizabeth Horton (born 31 January 1947) is a retired English academic and former Labour Party politician. She was a member of the Kensington and Chelsea...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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