WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1947
Find out what all happened April to December 1947

Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). (6. November 1947)

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. (23. June 1947)

Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. (25. November 1947)

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. (6. July 1947)

The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand. (18. November 1947)

Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. (16. April 1947)

Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077. (15. September 1947)

Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. (29. November 1947)

Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II. (1. April 1947)

India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire after near 90 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. (15. August 1947)

The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. (1. October 1947)

The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. (17. November 1947)

In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. (2. November 1947)

The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy. (22. December 1947)

The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. (4. July 1947)

Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano; 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded. (1. May 1947)

The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement. (6. April 1947)

A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years. (2. August 1947)

King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania. (30. December 1947)

Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. (14. October 1947)